We compare, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance of Islamic and conventional banks prior to, during and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is measured relative to a common frontier. A meta-frontier analysis (MFA), new to the banking context, howeve...

1Department of Ophthalmology, Ohashi Medical Center, Toho University, Tokyo 153-8515, Japan 2Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA 3Department of Ophthalmology, Mater Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland 4Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea 5Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku Unive...

Introduction It is submitted that accepting Islamic Banking within the western regulatory framework has encountered many impediments. A conventional bank is an institution that holds a banking license issued by banks' regulatory authorities which authorizes the chartered institution to conduct fundamental banking services such as receiving deposits, making loans, providing and saving account se...

Ophthalmology Clinics, Turkish Red Crescent Hospital, Konya 42200, Turkey 2Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mevlana University, Konya 42100, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara 06800, Turkey 4Konya Eye Center Hospital, Konya 42100, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya 42090, Turkey Corresp...

From the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,* The University of Iowa Center for Macular Degeneration, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; the Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College, London, United Kingdom; The Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom; and the Department of Neuroscience and Locomotion, Divisi...

a Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States c Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States d Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New Y...

B. Trusko1; J. Thorne2; D. Jabs1; R. Belfort3; A. Dick4; S. Gangaputra5; R. Nussenblatt6; A. Okada7; J. Rosenbaum8; for The Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Project 1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, New York, New York, USA; 2The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3Federal University of Sao Paulo, Department of Ophthal...

background: academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. for this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. the main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of ophthalmology in iran from 2007 to 2010 methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

Each economy functions within a particular social framework, defined by its moral philosophy and legal system. What makes an economy Islamic is Sharīah, the moral/legal discourses of the classical fuqahā’, which defined the economy of classical Islam, shaped its micro and macro institutions, and modulated its actual performance. This economy, which was virtually effaced during the age of Europe...

*) Corresponding Author Abstract: The study was to: 1) generate the appropriate evaluation instrument so that the instrument might be implemented in evaluating the Integrated Islamic Elementary School (SDIT, Sekolah Dasar Islam Terpadu) learning process; 2) identify the effectiveness of the developed evaluation instrument; and 3) identify the description and the criteria in the results of evalu...