Browsing Academic by Subject "Competition"

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    • Comparison of Mental Toughness and Power Test Performances in High-Level Kickboxers by Competitive Success 

      Slimani, Maamer; Miarka, Bianca; Briki, Walid; Cheour, Foued ( Tehran University of Medical Sciences , 2016 , Article)
      Background Kickboxing is a high-intensity intermittent striking combat sport, which is characterized by complex skills and tactical key actions with short duration. Objectives The present study compared and verified ...

    • Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence 

      Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Parmeter, Christopher ( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)
      The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...

    • Competition in the Jordanian's Banking Sector 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M ( EuroJournals, Inc. , 2010 , Article)
      This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...

    • The cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M. ( EuroJournals, Inc. , 2010 , Article)
      This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...

    • Detecting Promotion Attacks in the App Market Using Neural Networks 

      He D.; Hong K.; Cheng Y.; Tang Z.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      App markets play an important role in distributing various apps to mobile users. The app market vendors provide reputation systems to assist users in finding useful and reputable apps by ranking them. Unfortunately, there ...

    • Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system 

      Al-Khouri, Ritab ( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2012 , Article)
      Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ...

    • ICDAR 2013 competition on gender prediction from handwriting 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Aljaam J.; Jaoua A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The prediction of gender from handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...

    • ICDAR 2013 competition on handwriting stroke recovery from offline data 

      Hassaine A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane A. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Stroke recovery from offline handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...

    • ICFHR 2018 competition on multi-script writer identification 

      Djeddi C.; Al-Maadeed S.; Siddiqi I.; Abdeljalil G.; He S.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This paper describes the ICFHR 2018 Competition on Multi-script Writer Identification with details on the competition tasks, databases employed, submitted systems, evaluation protocol and the reported results. The competition ...

    • ICFHR2012 competition on writer identification - Challenge 2: Arabic scripts 

      Hassane A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( IEEE , 2012 , Conference Paper)
      Arabic writer identification is a very active research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in ...

    • The ICDAR2011 Arabic writer identification contest 

      Hassane A.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Alja'am J.M.; Jaoua A.; Bouridane A. ( IEEE , 2011 , Conference Paper)
      Arabic writer identification is a very active research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare recent advances in ...