• Directors with multiple directorships tend to delay the recognition of loan loss provisions. A U-shaped relationship exists between directors and provision. Banks moderately busy directors’ provisions more than banks fewer time-poor over-boarded directors. Moderately achieve profitability targets while maintaining their reputations indicates optimism about loans’ future. This paper examines w...

a recent study indicates that the incidence of smoking cessation varies with age. although nicotine dependence (nd) has been regarded as one of the most significant barriers of successful smoking cessation, few researches have focused on the relationship between nicotine dependence and age.a cross-sectional study (conducted in 2013) with 596 chinese rural male current smokers was performed to s...

The human body is a constant flux of thousands of chemical/biological interactions and processes connecting molecules, cells, organs, and fluids, throughout the brain, body, and nervous system. Up until recently it was thought that all these interactions operated in a linear sequence, passing on information much like a runner passing the baton to the next runner. However, the latest findings in...

ing methods, we still experience frustrating situations for patients and even for doctors. Accordingly studies should be continued. Although the efficacies of the drugs and of the administration methods are the key points, practical points, such as the planned timetable and schedules, could be obstacles to bowel cleansing. In short, frustration still exists in bowel preparation. A tailored appr...

In literature and clinical reports connections between a heart condition (blood properties) emotional mental states are documented [1,2]. It is well known that psychosocial risk factors may lead to the activation of mechanisms responsible for somatic dysfunction cardiovascular system.

in this paper, we study the chebyshev centres of bounded subsets of normed spaces and obtain a norm inequality for relative centres. in particular, we prove that if t is a remotal subset of an inner product space h, and f is a star-shaped set at a relative chebyshev centre c of t with respect to f, then llx - qt (x)1i2 2 ilx-cll2 + ilc-qt (c) 112 x e f, where qt : f + t is any choice function s...

The nature of scrambling is a focus of recent debate in the syntactic literature. The term scrambling is used to describe apparently optional permutations of word order, found especially in languages with extensive case-marking. Saito (1989) argues that scrambling is A-bar movement (like wh-movement), rather than A-movement (like movement to the subject position). Webelhuth (1989) argues for sc...