The municipalities of Sweden are offering an increased amount of e-services to their population. The ambition of the municipalities is to offer a wide range of e-services and at the same time have good quality. One of the municipalities is Uppsala Kommun and one of the services they are offering is a school choice e-service called eBarnUngdom. The e-service is currently used for a few types of ...

Recent global developments have transformed the environment in which monetary policy operates, throwing up opportunities as well as challenges. Globalisation has expanded economic interdependence and interaction of countries greatly. This has created the need for greater coordination in terms of the design of appropriate institutional architecture as well as standardisation reflected in the ado...

we have studied the relation between bank deposit rates and house prices in iran. for that, we have run some var models, using the following variables: real deposit rates (including 1 and 5 years deposit rates), money supply (including the high powered money and the liquidity), gdp, housing services index, and number of licenses for new houses. our results show that a reduction in the deposit r...

Recent progress in predicting RNA structure is moving towards filling the 'gap' in 2D RNA structure prediction where, for example, predicted internal loops often form non-canonical base pairs. This is increasingly recognized with the steady increase of known RNA 3D modules. There is a general interest in matching structural modules known from one molecule to other molecules for which the 3D str...

The environment within which retail banks operate has changed significantly since the 2008 global financial crisis. Nevertheless, the transformation is far from complete; retail banks face a wide range of evolving challenges. Organisations are increasingly conscious of the importance of 'customer-centricity'. Moreover, as a consequence of the FCA's conduct risk agenda, firms are mandated to pro...

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and foreign competition can solve China’...

The purpose of this study was to develop item banks by linking items from three pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments using a mixed methodology. Secondary data were collected from 469 parents of children aged 8-16 years. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth (ICF-CY) served as a framework to compare the concepts of items...

Click here for part 2 of the report Internet firms throwing down the gauntlet to the banking world. In sections of the financial industry there are many weband data-based financial products and services that customers cannot obtain from either their bank or a similar provider. This gives rise to a new competitive environment. Non-bank, primarily technology-driven providers are entering the mark...

Ali. Ahmad Alawneh, Samer Hanna Philadelphia University Amman Jordan [email protected], [email protected] Abstract Based on the Amit and Zott e-Value framework, we have developed an extended conceptual research model for assessing the value of e-business at the bank level. For the purposes of our research some parameters were added to or excluded from e-Value framework since our re...