In this article, we have elaborated a study over the nature of financial intermediation in Islamic banks by comparison to those of conventional ones. We have found a striking difference between two kinds of intermediation. We tried, from another side, to study the relationship between the capital level and deficiency risk relying on econometric model, and we have obtained a positive and signifi...

This study compares the hazard of failure in Islamic and conventional commercial banks using survival models. The sample consists of 421 banks from 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries observed during the 1995 to 2010 period. The conditioning variables are of both bank-level and country-level type. The analysis suggests that Islamic banks have lower failure risk and are less interconnected which...

background and purpose: needle stick injuries (nsis) remains a significant risk of occupational transmission of blood-borne pathogens in health care workers (hcws). this study aimed to determine the “risk factors of needlestick and sharps injuries among healthcare workers in naft hospital, mahshahr”. methods: a descriptive-cross sectional study carried out on 135 hcws in naft hospital in mahsha...

background: screening rates for colorectal cancer (crc) are increasing nationwide including tennessee (tn); however, their up‑to‑date status is unknown. the objective of this study is to determine the trends and characteristics of tn adults who are up‑to‑date status with crc screening during 2002‑2008. methods: we examined data from the tn behavioral risk factor surveillance system for 2002, 20...

Huge amount of ammunition, both conventional and chemical weapons, have been dumped in the oceans of the world during the last century. In particular, large amounts of ammunitions were dumped in the sea after the Second World War. It has been estimated that between 750000 and 1.5 million metric tons of conventional ammunition was dumped along the German North Sea cost [1] . In Norway, an estima...

The interpretation of conventional multivariate analyses concerning the relation of insulin to the risk of atherosclerotic disease is complex because of correlations of insulin with other risk factors. Therefore, we applied factor analysis to study the clustering of risk factors in the baseline data of the Helsinki Policemen Study (970 healthy men aged 34 to 64 years) and investigated whether t...