“The greatest mitzvah,” Lily Lerner remembers what her mother taught her, “is to accompany a dead person burial” (Lerner 1980, p. 35) [...]

Purpose ― This paper examines banking competition's effect on Malaysia's financial performance from 2008–2020. study investigates the relationship between banks' market competition and by examining profits risks. Further, this current whether association differs for Islamic banks. Methods The research studies Malaysia as a sample country employs data span 2008-2020. In order to address omitted ...

One of the main applications of citation is to find articles that are relevant to a particular article. However, not all citations are equally relevant to the target article. This paper presents an approach to identify the most relevant citation(s). To this end, the Normalized Similarity Index (NSI) is proposed to quantify the similarity between the source and target of a citation base on the c...

This study examines the influence of competition on the financial stability of the commercial banks of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) over the 1990 to 2014 period. Panzar-Rosse H-statistic, Lerner index and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) are used as measures of competition, while Z-score, non-performing loan (NPL) ratio and equity ratio are used as measures of financial stabili...

Dept of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Dept of Cell Biology, Dept of Molecular Cardiology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute;Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Dept of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dept of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clini...

Forest ecosystems are among the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs on our planet earth thus playing a vital role in global carbon cycle. Presently, remote sensing techniques provide proper estimates of forest biomass and quantify carbon stocks. The present study has explored Landsat-8 sensor product and evaluated its application in biomass mapping and estimation. The specific objectives were...