ملخص البحث: لقد عدّ سعود السنعوسي من أهم الكتّاب العرب في القرن الواحد والعشرين لأنه استطاع أن يعكس في مؤلفاته الأدبية الواقع الاجتماعي والسياسي الذي شهده المجتمع العربي. ويتميز أسلوبه بالجرأ

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the performance of multinational banks as a subset of the eclectic theory. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the least square method of random effects model (REM). The opportunity to use a random effects rather than a fixed effects model has been tested wi

This study seeks to examine the performance of 77 Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, and Pakistani commercial banks between 1997 and 2008. The empirical findings suggest that bank specific characteristics – in particular, liquidity, non-interest income, credit risk, and capitalization – have positive and significant impacts on bank performance, while cos

The present paper employs the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI)method to examine the sources of total factor productivity change of the Philippines banking sector during the period of 1998 to 2008. The empirical findings suggest that the Philippines banking sector has exhibited productivity regress due to technological regress. The results indicat

Unlike other jurisdictions such as the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, Malaysia does not have legislation that deals specifically with landlords and tenants. Thus, a tenancy agreement can be concluded either orally or in writing. As such the rights and obligations of both parties are depending on the terms and conditions of the contract ente

One of the mechanisms in promoting housing development in a country is by having sufficient legal provisions regulating land matters and development. Recently the Malaysian Parliament has passed a new act relating to housing in Malaysia that is Perumahan Rakyat 1 Malaysia 2011(hereinafter referred to as “PR1MA”). It is alleged that the purpose

China is one of the older civilizations in the world with four thousand (4000) years history. It is an ancient civilization which is extended over a large area in East Asia. The Chinese civilizations are known for its years of prosperity and have since generated competitive minds and stimulated the growth and development in other parts of the world

The era of globalization has caused widespread movement of people and has resulted in migration of labour. Coupled with the digitalization of information, this has sparked an increasing trend of international marriages, i.e. marriages between two persons of different nationalities. The trend has generated new challenges including the determination

AISI H13 tool steel is one of the major hardened materials used extensively for making hot working moulds and dies, because of favourable combination of their mechanical and thermal properties. However, these enhanced properties, especially high hardness make them very difficult to machine using conventional techniques. In the current project a tec

Ductile mode machining of silicon is hard to obtain due to the brittleness of silicon and hardness of tool materials. A brittle material will have little tendency to deform before it fractures when it is subjected to stress. Ceramic materials such as silicon carbide and silicon nitride are hard and brittle to be machined. According to Thimmaiah et