260 JOURNAL ECONOMICSAND FINANCE 9 Volume28 9 Number 2 9 Summer 2004 OF THE CAUSAL RELATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND SPENDING: EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT AND JORDAN By Bassam AbuAI-Foul and Hamid Baghestani* Abstract In investigating the causal relation between government revenue and spending‚ our empirical results support the tax-and-spend hypothesis for Egypt and the fiscal synchronization hypothesis for Jordan. Breaking away from these historical trends is essential for both countries to
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Basic and complex emotion recognition in children with autism: cross-cultural findings. Molecular Autism‚ 7(1). doi:10.1186/s13229-016-0113-9 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS This study aimed to compare the recognition of both complex and basic emotions in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and in typically developing (TD) children. This study was completed in three different countries - Israel‚ Great Britain‚ and Sweden - to also compare the recognition of these emotions cross-culturally
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An Independent Evaluation of Subspace Face Recognition Algorithms Dhiresh R. Surajpal and Tshilidzi Marwala Abstract— This paper explores a comparative study of both the linear and kernel implementations of three of the most popular Appearance-based Face Recognition projection classes‚ these being the methodologies of Principal Component Analysis (PCA)‚ Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). The experimental procedure provides a platform of equal working conditions
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REVENUE GENERATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF OBAFEMI/OWODE LOCAL GOVERNMENT Submitted by DAIRO ISAAC KUNLE Dept. Of Economics‚ University of Ibadan RESEARCH PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION Local governments are potentially very important for Nigeria as they play a significant role in generating revenue and encouraging civil involvement‚ as well as creating a visible link between taxes and service delivery. The increasing cost of running government coupled with dwindling revenue
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Contents Page Title page i Certification ii Declaration iii Dedication iv Acknowledgement
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An executive summary for managers and executives can be found at the end of this article The influence of brand recognition on retail store image Stephen S. Porter and Cindy Claycomb A well-recognized and accepted brand image is one of the most valuable assets a firm possesses. Brand managers and manufacturers are concerned with managing brand equity and capitalizing on the value of a brand image (Aaker‚ 1991). A product or retail establishment has many associations which combine to form its
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newspapers. The increasing percentage of digital readers does little to mitigate the losses since online advertising is seen as less effective and commands far less money. Print advertising revenues have been in a free-fall over the last ten years. Adjusted for inflation‚ 2012 newspaper print advertising revenues fell to the lowest annual level of print advertising since the industry data started being tracked in 1950 (See Exhibit 2). Another cause of concern to newspapers should be the declining
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stock price‚ but it also triggered an investigation which uncovered many unethical accounting practices. One example of such practices included faking product shipments so that sales could be booked. By midsummer 1994‚ as much as 70% of quarterly revenue was false. The company had ignored early warnings‚ such as their auditor Price Waterhouse LLP telling them they had weak internal controls. After announcing their 1994 write off another audit took place by Coopers & Lybrand. While Coopers feels
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CHAPTER –I: INTRODUCTION 1.1.0 Background of the study: Banks play an important role in the business sector and promoting industrialization and economic development of a country. Banks provide necessary funds for executing various programs underway in the process of economic development. Basically‚ Bank collects deposit from the customers at lower rate of interest and lends it to the borrowers at higher rate of interest considering the cost of fund. The difference amount indicates the
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%FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM % % Face recognition system based on EigenFaces Method. % The system functions by projecting face images onto a feature space % that spans the significant variations among known face images. The % significant features are known as "eigenfaces" because they are the % eigenvectors (principal components) of the set of faces. % % Face images must be collected into sets: every set (called "class") should % include a number of images for each person‚ with some variations
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