We examine the impact of religious agency on performance GCC Islamic banks. Our results show that a high proportion prominent scholars Shariah supervisory boards (SSB) improves financial performance. However, when scholar chairs SSB there are negative effects. With concentration few scholars, our findings have twofold implications: first, future research should develop approaches to test govern...

This study investigates how semantic networks represent different artistic furniture. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants made style-match judgments for table and chair sets. All of the tables were in the Normal style, whereas the chairs were in the Normal, Minimal, ReadyMade, or Deconstruction styles. The Normal and Minimal chairs had the same rates of "match" resp...

Abstract This paper aims to open a new path for the comparative cross-historical and cross-cultural analysis of deliberating or deciding assemblies. For this purpose, it makes use wide concept parliament, in contrast conventional narrow one which focuses on democratic elections free mandate. The essay starts with an overview large variety “parliamentarianisms” across history culture, then point...