Gelişmekte olan ülkelerin önemli sorunlarından biri bankacılık sektörünün finansal bozulmalar karşısında zayıf, kırılgan ve istikrarsız bir yapıya sahip olmasıdır. Bu sorun, faiz kur riskleri yeterli sermayeye olmayan bankaları sistematik olarak etkilemektedir. Yükselen ekonomilerden Türkiye, 2001 yılında Cumhuriyet tarihinin en büyük krizini yaşamış Türk sektörü derinden sarsılmıştır. Yaşanan ...

The pyroclastic aggregate concrete of Trajan's Markets (110 CE), now Museo Fori Imperiali in Rome, has absorbed energy from seismic ground shaking and long-term foundation settlement for nearly two millenia while remaining largely intact at the structural scale. The scientific basis of this exceptional service record is explored through computed tomography of fracture surfaces and synchroton X-...

The radio signature of a shock travelling through the solar corona is known as a type II solar radio burst. In rare cases these bursts can exhibit a fine structure known as “herringbones”, which are a direct indicator of particle acceleration occurring at the shock front. However, few studies have been performed on herringbones and the details of the underlying particle acceleration processes a...

web applications that facilitate the acquisition, integration, and dissemination of multimedia biomedical data over the web, thereby reducing the cost of knowledge sharing. There is a lack of highlevel web application development tools suitable for use by researchers, clinicians, and educators who are not skilled programmers. Our Web Interfacing Repository Manager (WIRM) is a software toolkit t...

Bank of Canada discussion papers are completed research studies on a wide variety of technical subjects relevant to central bank policy. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada. Abstract The authors examine the degree of contestability in the Canadian banking system using the H-statistic proposed by Panzar...

This paper examines competitive conditions and market structure in the banking industry, and investigates their interrelationship. Competition is measured using the non-structural Panzar-Rosse model, which assesses the elasticities of interest revenues with respect to changes in banks’ input prices. In order to distinguish competitive behaviour on local, national and international markets, for ...

In recent years, the medical curriculum has been changed in many institutions worldwide. New concepts such as problem-based or evidence-based learning have consequences for teaching anatomy (Drake, 1998). Various papers have been published, for example, on the effects of self-directed learning on teaching anatomy (Peplow, 1990), small group case-based learning programs (Hansen and Krackov, 1994...