Bangladesh entered into the era of financial reform during the early 1980s. Most of the reforms initiated by the government have concentrated predominantly on the banking sector. Consequently, many changes relating to ownership, market concentration, regulatory measures and policies have taken place primarily to enhancing bank performance. In this regard, this study is undertaken to investigate...

BACKGROUND This study assesses the association between socioeconomic factors and living arrangements with activity of daily living limitations (ADL) and the receipt of informal and formal care among non-institutionalized Brazilians aged ≥ 60 years. METHODS Data come from a nationally representative survey (the Brazilian National Health Survey), conducted in 2013. Outcomes examined include the...

In the performing arts, including music, theater, dance and so on, theoretical issues both about artworks and about performances of them must be dealt with, so that their theoretical analysis is inherently more complex and troublesome than that of nonperforming arts such as painting or film, in which primarily only artworks need to be discussed. Thus it is especially desirable in the case of th...

The banks’ response to their changes in leverage ratios is examined and evaluated in this paper. This reaction can be interpreted as if the coefficient of total debts to equity (lev1) and total assets to equity (lev2) are positive as anticipated in the banking network of Iran. The paper uses data from 31 Iranian banks’ annual databases during the course of 2006-13 in order to estimate an empiri...

Software product line engineering mainly deals with specifying and developing core assets that can be utilized and adapted into specific product artifacts. Feature-oriented and UML-based modeling methods have been proposed for managing and supporting core assets specification. While these methods get a lot of attention in software product line engineering literature, their comparison in terms o...

The banking industry is one of the important sectors in economy. To discover whether a bank good or bad condition, it can be seen how bank's financial performance. performance describes extent to which performing its operational activities. This study analyzes effect Capital Adequacy Ratio, Third Party Funds, Non-Performing Loans and Debt Equity Ratio on profitability as measured using return a...

We examine how the properties of equity analysts’ bank loan loss provision forecasts differ with provision timeliness. We find that the accuracy of analyst provision forecasts relative to time-series provision forecasts is more pronounced for banks with more timely loan loss provisions. Consistent with the greater accuracy of analysts’ provision forecast for timely banks, we find that, controll...