Banks play an important role in the Iranian economy which has a bank-based financial system. We examined the impact of exchange rate volatility as a determinant of banks' performance. In recent years, the exchange rate has been volatile in the Iranian economy and have an adverse effect on banks' performance. This study, investigate the issue for the period 2007-2017 for 14 Iranian banks. Exchan...

Abiotic stress decreases crop production worldwide. In order to recommend suitable genotypes for cultivation under water deficit and heat conditions, an overall understanding of the genetic basis plant responses these stresses their interactions with environment is required. To achieve goals, multitrait genotype-ideotype distance index (MGIDI) was utilized recognize abiotic-stress-tolerant whea...

Islamic banking is considered as alternative to conventional banking. It focuses on profit/loss and risk sharing, than interest based deposit/lending followed in conventional banking. Conventional Banking cherishes a long history while Islamic banking gained importance in last few decades. The study review and compare performance of conventional banks and Islamic banks operating in GCC region d...

This paper analyzes the bene…ts and costs of …nancial statement comparability from an information perspective. We …rst show analytically that while comparability enhances the correlation among …rms’reported earnings (“common informativeness”), it reduces …rms’own reporting precision (“individual informativeness”). Next, we provide theoretical justi…cation for the comparability measure of De Fra...

BACKGROUND Treatment of blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia (BP-CML) remains a challenge, and the median survival is less than 6 months. Because effective treatments are lacking, we studied tight targeting of blast crisis CML cells using adenoviral (Ad) vectors expressing a HSV-TK system under dual control of a specific SUZ12 promoter and an antioxidant response element (ARE). METHODS A pote...

The stakeholders in the stock markets use their interpretation of market condition, speculation and information available to them to make their trading decisions. This results in complex interactions between them and eventually the stock markets form a complex system where the stock price of various firms show an emergent behavior that is difficult to predict. One way to study the long term beh...