this paper proposes a suitable benchmark for inefficient commercial bank branches by using data envelopment analysis (dea). in order to render an inefficient bank branch efficient, it is necessary to decrease inputs and increase outputs. as there are priorities for decreasing some certain inputs and increasing some certain outputs over other inputs and outputs, respectively, it is necessary to ...

At the end of June each year, the Russell indexes are reconstituted. Around the Russell reconstitution date, the Russell indexes appear to have some well-formed patterns called Russell rebalance patterns. In this paper, I will use computational verb theory to verify the existence of such stock market pattern and provide a quantitatively way for the scrutiny of similar patterns. The main contrib...

A Russell set is a set which can be written as the union of a countable pairwise disjoint set of pairs no infinite subset of which has a choice function and a Russell cardinal is the cardinal number of a Russell set. We show that if a Russell cardinal a has a ternary partition (see Section 1, Definition 2) then the Russell cardinal a + 2 fails to have such a partition. In fact, we prove that if...

the midst of raw sewage. In 2001, The EPA also found itself in trouble after declaring Ground Zero air clear, soon after the September 11th attacks. Local officials later heaped criticism on the EPA for that call. Even though the air was within normal limits, noxious dust coated buildings — and poorly protected cleaning crews were sent in to clean up that mess after the EPA’s all-clear. It’s al...

First described in 1998, Russell body gastritis is a rare chronic inflammatory condition characterized by abundant intramucosal polyclonal plasma cells, which contain intracytoplasmic eosinophilic globules of immunoglobulins (Russell bodies) that displace the nucleus, with an accompanying chronic inflammatory infiltrate. Russell bodies represent a cellular response to overstimulation of plasma ...

This paper develops a measure that can be used to compare ethnic voting levels across countries. The measure examines the relationship between ethnicity and vote choice: as it becomes easier to predict voting behavior in a country by knowing only voters’ ethnicity, the ethnic voting measure increases. The paper then uses data from 71 surveys to estimate ethnic voting levels in 45 countries, and...

The emotional feelings evoked by advertisements/products exert a powerful influence on consumer and decision making (Isen at al. 1982; Clark & Isen 1982). For instance, several studies provide evidence for the strong effect of emotions on brand attitudes (e.g., Williams & Aaker 2002). For practitioners and researchers, knowledge about how consumers’ emotions influence their behavior and brand a...