Not only in Iran, but throughout the world, banks and banking industry are considered as very important parts of the economy. This study seeks to investigate the impact of the internal characteristics of banks, the structure of the banking industry and the economic situation of Iran on the profitability of the banking system of Iran by exploring the theory of the Structuralism school concerning...

Consensual deprivation indicators represent one influential approach to measuring poverty,. The approach is based on the assumption that there is a broad consensus on what goods/services families should be able to afford, and that we can use enforced non-possession of those items to measure deprivation. Using data from two GB surveys from 1999, this paper argues that (a) the degree of consensus...

Ameisen: Die heimliche Weltmacht (Ants: Nature's Secret Power) is a nature documentary about ants. Wolfgang Thaler wrote, filmed, and directed the film, which focuses on the work of ant researcher Bert Hölldobler. The 2004 film was produced by Adi Mayer Film for Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting), a public service broadcaster headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Ants: Nature's Secre...

We describe the synthesis and fluorescence properties of a Fura-2FF-based fluorescent Ca(2+) indicator that can be covalently linked to SNAP-tag fusion proteins and retains its Ca(2+) sensing ability after coupling to protein.

The measurement of bank profitability has an essential role in the banking sector’s success and is indicator for predicting financial distress. This study aims to look at determinants Islamic banks by including bank’s internal macroeconomic variables. focuses on 10 countries with most prominent finance sector during 4th quarterly data period from 2016 quarter 2021. analysis method this uses pan...

An industrial housing construction enterprise (IHCE), as a prominent representative of the industry enterprises that follow global trends in field scientific and technological progress, is complex organizational production structure requiring its performance to be evaluated. In general, there are six main effectiveness indicators enterprises: innovation, efficiency, productivity, profitability,...

In the educational context it is examined the teacher-stress association. The teacher’s stress is related with variables of academic environment, of out of the school and of the teacher. The impact of that association can be see in the teacher’s health, in his achievement and in the quality of the teaching-learning process. With the objective to present one view of how issue is being considered...

We demonstrate that an oft-used indirect attitude assessment technique—the attitude activation paradigm—accurately assesses attitudes only when participants attend to the prime stimuli during the attitude activation task. Attitude activation attitudes toward obviously valenced words (e.g., torture, liberty) were more sensitive to attitude valence and extremity when participants were required to...

V.Hanitha University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Email: [email protected] Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether factors such as capital structure, working capital, firm size, non-debt tax shield and growth rate, determining profitability have any impact on profitability of selected manufacturing companies listed on Colombo stock exchange, Sri Lanka over a period of five years fro...