The sensitivity of human ear is dependent on frequency which is nonlinearly resolved across the audio spectrum .Now to improve the recognition performance in a similar non linear approach requires a front end design, suggested by empirical evidences. A popular alternative to linear prediction based analysis is therefore filter bank analysis since this provides a much more straightforward route ...

This paper examines the relationship between UK firms’ choices over bank-based and market-based finance under different monetary conditions. The evolving financial environment facing the corporate sector provides many nonbank external finance options available as an alternative to bank finance. The paper shows that firms distributed according to their type (asset size, rating etc) have differen...

This study evaluated the effect of bank consolidation on economic growth of Nigeria between the periods of 2006-2015. Secondary data were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin and the NDIC Annual Reports between the period of 2006 and 2015. Data was analyzed using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple regression technique with the aid of the SPSS statistical software ...

Once the responsibilities of central bank increases, developing good governance for achieving its different aims to satisfy the required statutory power becomes more complicated. In the case of the central bank of Islamic republic of Iran - as monetary policymaker and supervisor-this issue is valid as well. Considering the necessity of independency, accountability, and transparency for developi...

OnApril 1, 2002, the Japanese government lifted a blanket guarantee of all deposits and began limiting the coverage of time deposits. This paper uses this deposit insurance reform as a natural experiment to investigate the relationship between deposit insurance coverage and market discipline. I find that the reform raised the sensitivity of interest rates on deposits, and that of deposit quanti...

This paper examines the effects of the estimated probability of bank failure on the growth rates oflarge time deposits and interest rates on those deposits. While riskier banks paid higher interest rates, they attracted less large time deposits in the second half of the 1980s. These results indicate that risky banks faced unfavorable supply schedules of large time deposits and, hence, support t...

How to run a brain bank. A report from the Austro-German brain bank p. 31 How to run a "Brain Bank"? Clinical and institutional requirements for "Brain Banking" p. 71 The contemporary AIDS database and brain bank-lessons from the past p. 77 Brain banks and non nervous tissues p. 87 A paraffin wax technique of Golgi-Cox impregnated CNS that permits the joint application of other histological and...