Detailed topographic data collected with an airborne laser scanner can help determine the extent of bank erosion and identify banks that are more vulnerable to bank collapse and thus require stabilization efforts. The Minnesota River which flows through a 95% agricultural watershed has been ranked among the top 20 most polluted rivers in the U.S. Greater than 50% of the sediment load carried by...

with change technology and globalization process, financial bazaars has accost with competitive pressure for improve performance. a way to address such circumstance is through privatization. therefore, present study tries to evaluate and compare the financial performance of public and private commercial banks between 2006 through 2009 by using the constituents of camel model. statistical sample...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether herd behavior exists or not between di®erent types of Japanese banks. Using data of loans outstanding by types of banks from 1980 to 2000, we investigate statistical causality between loans from di®erent types of banks in Japan. Time-series analysis manifested the causality from city banks to regional banks, from long-term credit banks to city banks, ...

Eroding stream and river banks can threaten agricultural assets, riparian infrastructure, and can significantly impact the environment. There are many different approaches to stabilizing and restoring stream and river banks. Streambank Soil Bioengineering is one of the approaches that are gaining favor for being both cost effective and environmentally sensitive. The term “Streambank Soil Bioeng...

An asset network systemic risk (ANWSER) model is presented to investigate the impact of how shadow banks are intermingled in a financial system on the severity of financial contagion. Particularly, the focus of this study is the impact of the following three representative topologies of an interbank loan network between shadow banks and regulated banks. (1) Random mixing network: shadow banks a...

 This paper investigates the financial stability, measured by z-score technique in Islamic banking system of 20 countries from 2000 to 2010. We compare the stability of Islamic banks to the commercial banks, before and after the financial crisis. The empirical results from panel estimation show that: a) the large Islamic banks are more stable than the large commercial banks and furthermo...