This study provides comparative analysis of different banks branches efficiency in Pakistan during the year 2010. The main objective of the study is to develop an effective model for measuring the relative efficiency and achievable development proficiency of selected bank branches by analyzing their competencies and deficiencies through application of Data Envelopment Analysis. Further more, th...

In this paper, we present design methods for perfect reconstruction (PR) integer-modulated filter banks, including biorthogonal (low-delay) filter banks. Both the prototype filter and the modulation sequences are composed of integers, thus allowing,efficient hardware implementations. To derive such filter banks, we first extend the PR conditions known for cosine modulation to other, more genera...

BACKGROUND The tissue biobanking of specific biological residual materials, which constitutes a useful resource for medical/scientific research, has raised some ethical issues, such as the need to define which kind of consent is applicable for biological residual materials biobanks. DISCUSSION Biobank research cannot be conducted without considering arguments for obtaining the donors' consent...

The purpose of this paper is to see whether and how G-10 banks have complied with the 1988 Basel Capital Accord. The interest of this study lies in the fact that the standardized approach of the New Basel Accord is similar to the 1988 agreement. However, very little is known about the reaction of non-US banks to the imposition of fixed minimum capital requirements. Building on previous studies,...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) quality-of-life (QoL) item banks and determine the utility of the final calibrated item banks by simulating a computerized adaptive testing (CAT) application. Methods In this clinical, cross-sectional study, 514 participants with DR/DME (mean age ± SD, 60.4...

The purpose of this study is to assess how information sharing offices affect loan price and quantity in the African banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks in 42 countries for the period 2001-2011. From the Generalised Method of Moments, public credit registries decrease loan price. With instrumental Quantile Regressions, two main findings are established. Pub...

This paper proposes a macroeconomic model with financial intermediaries (banks), in which banks face occasionally binding leverage constraints and may endogenously affect the strength of their balance sheets by issuing new equity. The model can account for occasional financial crises as a result of the nonlinearity induced by the constraint. Banks’ precautionary equity issuance makes financial ...

In this paper, optimized perfect reconstruction octave-band two-stage and three-stage tree-structured lter banks and optimized uniform four-channel and eight-channel lter banks are compared for hybrid video coding. The lter co-eecients are optimized at each stage for subband coding gain for nonuniform lter banks. Six types of frequency partitionings are presented to compare the eecient utilizat...