THE ECONOMICS OF BOUNCED CHECKS IN LEBANON

The Economics of Bounced Checks in Lebanon

The purpose of this paper is to identify the variables that determine or explain the supply of bounced checks, either issued in Lebanese pounds or issued in US dollars.This is an area that the extant empirical research fails to cover, and hence, this paper is, by itself, quite innovative.Four major explanatory variables are identified.Two Drainboar

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Learning to Read Big Books: Dante, Spenser, Milton

The interpretive challenges posed Cakes by dense and lengthy poems such as Dante’s Inferno, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost can prove daunting for the average undergraduate reader whose experience of texts has been circumscribed by pedagogical mandates focused on reading for information.While information-retrie

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A new vision of the origin and the oocyte development in the Ostariophysi applied to Gymnotus sylvius (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes)

Based on new knowledge coming from marine perciform species, the origin of oocytes and their development in the Ostariophysi, Gymnotus sylvius is described.In both Gymnotus sylvius and marine perciform fish, oogonia are found in the germinal epithelium that forms the surface of the ovarian lamellae.At the commencement of folliculogenesis, prolifera

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Damage mechanism of existing RC slabs with reinforcing steel plate

The purpose of this study was to clarify the damage mechanisms of existing reinforced concrete (RC) slabs with reinforcing steel plates through the use of a three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis.An actual wheel load running test was simulated.Two panels TIG Torch Accessory Kit of RC slab were cut from existing bridges and were used as

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