This paper examines the efficiency of the banking sector in Qatar. The paper utilizes 15 banks comprising Islamic, conventional and foreign banks for the duration of 2007 to 2011.Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is applied to compute technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Also, Malmquist Productivity Index is

In the fi eld of psychology, the topics on human nature and motivation have been quite extensively discussed. These two topics are interrelated and inseparable. Any endeavor to understand man and his potentials makes it necessary for one to venture into the study of human nature. Major topics in psychology like motivation, personality, creativity,

Background: In clinical practice, assessment of constipation depends on reliability, consistency and frequency of several commonly reported or core symptoms. It is not known if frequency patterns of constipation symptoms in adults are different between the West and the East. This review aimed to describe core constipation symptoms and their frequen

It has been suggested that the use of English among Malays is constrained by the intertwining of ethnic identity, religion and native language. This study investigated the possibility of a ‘third space’ (Bhabha, 1994) for a group of Malay-speaking English majors in an English-medium university in Malaysia. Using Norton’s (2013) identity appro

Technology-based accounting education is a step in the right direction to meet the industry demand for higher quality and IT savvy professional accountants as it is an essential component in today’s student-centered learning approach era. However, the elements that contribute to the enhancement of vital IT skills among the accounting students in

This study focuses on factors determining Pokémon Go addiction behaviour among players in Malaysia. Using the Personal Construct Theory (PCT), the relationship between perception of Pokémon Go players and their addiction behaviour toward the game is examined. The objectives of this study are (1) to identify the levels of perception and addiction

Anisophyllea disticha is one of the species of genus Anisophyllea that are being used by the folklore in treating diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, revitalizing the birth canal of women, relieving weariness and body aches as well as acting as anti-aging and body refreshment. Different parts of A. disticha were tested for total phenolic content and ant

The enhancement in technology has sped the search process making more information available to users in a short amount of time. This also involves semantically enriched data for CLIR, which can either be in the form of different language or different writing system. This book investigated the retrieval performance of Quranic texts translation of Pi

This paper offers a new insight into the computational modelling of crack and delamination of carbon fiber composite. Both transversal cracks (intralaminar) and delamination (interlaminar) are modelled with Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM). Constitutive and fracture laws are integrated to model the initiation of crack or delamination, and thei

Studies on face-to-face interactions have demonstrated how spoken language involves not only verbal but also mutual collaboration with the embodiment. The embodiment, such as gestures, can convey semantic content and can be a crucial point in a conversation (Hazel et al., 2014). In this study, I will investigate the embodiment that includes gaze, h