in the paper an attempt was made to study the performance of indian banks with the help of camel(c-capital adequacy, a- asset quality, m- management quality, e-earnings, l-liquidity i.e. camel) rating system, over the period of five years from (2011 to 2015) and then evaluated out the efficiency of banks with the help of gra (grey relation analysis) technique there by gaining confidence from in...

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LEANDRO M. SANTOS & LUIZ R. R. FARIA 1Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19.020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brazil. 2Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. CNPq fellowship. [email protected] 3Current Address: Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológ...

We report the results of an early performance evaluation of the SiCortex SC648 that contains 648 processor-cores. Performance was measured using microbenchmarks to evaluate node and network performance, and with real-world parallel scientific applications. The SiCortex machines are notable for a number of architectural innovations, including the use of a custom, very low power, six-core process...

Solar water heating (SWH) systems are gaining popularity in ASEAN in the midst of increasing number of affluent population in society and environmental concerns from seemingly unchanged reliance on fossil-based fuels. The penetration of these systems and technologies into ASEAN markets is a welcome development; however there is a need for the method of assessment of their thermal performances. ...

AIM To describe the methods used to standardize the assessment of motor milestones in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS) and to present estimates of the reliability of the assessments. METHODS As part of the MGRS, longitudinal data were collected on the acquisition of six motor milestones by children aged 4 to 24 mo in Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the USA. To ensure standardi...

Current and prospective students (n =133) were surveyed about their preferences for a name for a new online series of courses to be launched by a university. Preferences for each of five names were solicited by means of analytical ratings, holistic ratings, and rankings. All three techniques were employed to assure that the most appropriate name for the program was selected, but this also affor...