Internal financial determinants of stock prices in the banking sector: comparative evidence from Dubai and Abu Dhabi Stock markets

The present study has been conducted to examine the impact of seven of most important internal factors on stock prices for all listed banks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets. Pooled Least Square, Fixed Effects (FE), and Random Effects (RE) models have been used to carry out the analysis for data pertaining to 23 banks for a time period between 2014-2017. The aim of the study is to examine the most important internal factors affecting stock prices in the banking sector of United Arab Emirates, and whether internal factors determining stock prices in this sector are the same for Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets. The results give evidence of positive and significant impact of Earnings Per Share (EPS) and Dividend Per Share (DPS) on market price for shares, in all markets for the former and only in Abu Dhabi stock market for the later. By contrast, the study reveals a negative impact of Return on Equity (RoE), Dividend Yield (DY), and Price Earnings (P_E) on market price for shares. Even more important, the study gives evidence of differentiated impact of variables representing dividend policies, on market price for shares, between the two markets investigated in United Arab Emirates

The World of an Octopus: How Reporting Bias Influences a Language Model's Perception of Color

Recent work has raised concerns about the inherent limitations of text-only pretraining. In this paper, we first demonstrate that reporting bias, the tendency of people to not state the obvious, is one of the causes of this limitation, and then investigate to what extent multimodal training can mitigate this issue. To accomplish this, we 1) generate the Color Dataset (CoDa), a dataset of human-perceived color distributions for 521 common objects; 2) use CoDa to analyze and compare the color distribution found in text, the distribution captured by language models, and a human's perception of color; and 3) investigate the performance differences between text-only and multimodal models on CoDa. Our results show that the distribution of colors that a language model recovers correlates more strongly with the inaccurate distribution found in text than with the ground-truth, supporting the claim that reporting bias negatively impacts and inherently limits text-only training. We then demonstrate that multimodal models can leverage their visual training to mitigate these effects, providing a promising avenue for future research.

Cultural and Geographical Influences on Image Translatability of Words across Languages

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been observed to produce poor translations when there are few/no parallel sentences to train the models. In the absence of parallel data, several approaches have turned to the use of images to learn translations. Since images of words, e.g., horse may be unchanged across languages, translations can be identified via images associated with words in different languages that have a high degree of visual similarity. However, translating via images has been shown to improve upon text-only models only marginally. To better understand when images are useful for translation, we study image translatability of words, which we define as the translatability of words via images, by measuring intra- and inter-cluster similarities of image representations of words that are translations of each other. We find that images of words are not always invariant across languages, and that language pairs with shared culture, meaning having either a common language family, ethnicity or religion, have improved image translatability (i.e., have more similar images for similar words) compared to its converse, regardless of their geographic proximity. In addition, in line with previous works that show images help more in translating concrete words, we found that concrete words have improved image translatability compared to abstract ones.

External influences of the translation movement in the first Abbasid perio (132-232AH/750-850AD)

This study aims to highlight the external influences that contributed to the enrichment of Arab Islamic culture through translation, which was one of the most important means of intellectual transmission among different peoples throughout the ages through the opening of the Abbasid state to the heritage of the former nations, whether the heritage of peoples under the control of the Abbasid state Neighboring peoples, such as the Greek, Indian and Chinese, became a general culture of society in which all social, economic, political and cultural groups participated. The impact and impact of Islamic civilization on other civilizations was clear, whether scientific, linguistic, economic and other influences. The study dealt with the factors of the emergence and prosperity of the translation movement in addition to the ways in which Muslims relied on translation and the centers that contributed to the reproduction of translators. The study also explained the efforts of the Abbasid caliphs in the translation process, with an emphasis on the efforts of the Caliph al-Ma'mun. Finally, the study showed the influence of civilizations in Islamic civilization represented in the renaissance of science and its prosperity, such as philosophy, mathematical sciences, astronomy, geography and medicine.

Amra palace

The aim of this paper is to recognition of the extent, which architecture during the Umayyad era, has achieved. The Amra Palace has been chosen due to its artistic and aesthetic significance. It is considered one of the most important Umayyad palaces in Al-Sham, which represents the majesty of solid structure, beautiful motifs and high taste. It contained the finest wall paintings, stalactites, ceramics, pools, oasis, and windows in addition to elegantly styled and beautifully colored ceilings in the Arabic and Islamic architecture.

The education effects of social connections sites on youth from the perspective of Damascus University students

The research aims to expose the of The Educational Effects Social Connections Network on University Youth. This research depended on the descriptive approach. The questionnaire was toll used to collect data. The questionnaire content (26) terms in three axis, they are about effects: (personality, social and cultural).

Evaluation of the treatment of port- wine stain with pulsed dye laser 585 nm

Thirty-two patients with port-wine stain were included in this study. The 585 nm pulsed dye laser treatment with an air cooling device was repeated 4 times at 8 – week intervals with a setting of 0.5 ms pulse duration and an average energy fluence 5 - 6.5 J/ cm2, using 7 mm spot size. The results revealed improvement of port-wine stains after multiple treatments , and 69% of the patients achieved good or excellent clearance after the fourth treatment. Transient purpura and tolerable pain were noted immediately after each treatment (87.5%), crusting (25%), hypopigmentation (9%), hyperpigmentation (6%) were also mild and their occurrence didn’t increase by repeating treatment. The results of this study indicated that the 585 nm PDL is effective and well tolerated in the treatment of port wine stain.

The Impact of Liquidity and its Risk on the Bank’s Profitability “An Empirical Study on the Syrian Private Commercial Banks”

Liquidity is considered to be one of the most important subject in the banking sector because it’s the key to maintain a secure financial position and it’s the main mean to gain the customer and depositor trust, and meet any obligation that might come up. In this paper we study effect of the liquidity and risk on the Syrian private bank’s profitability and the nature of this effect, to achieve this object we choose ten financial ratios for a sample of ten commercial banks between 2008 – 2014. The data have been basically collected from the financial statements of the studied banks. To analyze the research data we use one of the Panel Data Models which is the Fixed Effects Model. The data have been analyzed by using EViews 7. We conclude that the liquidity ratio have a significant negative effect on the bank’s profitability. liquidity risk have a significant positive effect on the profitability ratio .

The Affects Psychology, Sociology which the teachers suffer them Results of Professional Tresses According to Family Position and The Teaching Experiment Variable "A field Study in First episode of Basic Stag of Education"

The research aims to make known the psychology and sociology effects of stresses of teaching professional on teachers in first episode from basic learning , and known the correlation between teachers according to the variables (family position , and teaching experience in learning). The research adopted the descriptive method, by the questionnaire it has been used to collect the facts and the data from sample includes(100 ) teachers in Damascus city schools. The questionnaire includes( 33 ) term , ( 19) from them about psychology effects and( 14) from them about social effects . The result of study were finding : There are identical between opinions of all teachers about psychology and social effects of stresses of learning vocation, especially, psychology effects (weakness of motive to improvement, non suit vocational leering and no carry of aspirants ) . so sociology effects ( avoid talk with colleagues , the salary not suit for social statute, and not co-operation between colleagues for development. There are positive correlation relationship between opinions of sample members about psychology and social effects, according to variable of tamily position(married, non married)Coefficient Correlation ( 91,69-79V33). There are positive correlation relationship between opinions of sample members about psychology effects, according to variable of experience years. (ten year and less, more than ten years ), Coefficient Correlation ( 72,63). There are negative correlation relationship between opinions of sample members about social effects, according to variable of experience years. (ten year and less, more than ten years), Coefficient Correlation ( 11,88).

Reasons of Enabling University students to Face the Negative Effects of Media Globalization

This study aimed to spread awareness among students of Taibah University of the negative impacts of media globalization , and to know the difference in the views of faculty members about the reasons to enable university students to face the negative effects of globalization of media, and for that the researcher designed a questionnaire consisted of (18) items which were distributed to four dimensions after being sure of validity and reliability. The original society of the study consisted of all faculty members in colleges of education and society, Science and Computer Engineering, who are (216) of males and females then a random sample of (174) faculty members was chosen, male and female. After applying the tool of the study to members of the sample and doing the necessary statistical treatments, results showed the approval of the faculty members heavily on all the reasons to enable university students to face the negative effects of globalization of media. As shown by the results of the field study there are no statistically significant differences between males and females due to the variables of the study.