Nexant parabolic trough solar power plant systems analysis [[electronic resource] ] . Task 1 Preferred plant size, January 20, 2005 - December 31, 2005 / / B. Kelly

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910696463303321
• Autore: Kelly B (Bruce)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Golden, Colo. : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , [2006]
• Descrizione fisica: iii, 54 pages : digital, PDF file
• Collana: NREL/SR ; ; 550-40162
• Soggetti: Solar thermal energy - Research; Parabolic troughs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 5, 2008).; "July 2006."

What’s in it for Me? A Primeron Differences between Islamic and Conventional Finance in Malaysia / / Olga Krasicka, Sylwia Nowak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779104603321
• Autore: Krasicka Olga
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4755-4118-X; 1-4755-6020-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (23 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Altri autori (Persone): NowakSylwia
• Soggetti: Investments - Islamic countries; Investments, Foreign - Islamic countries; Banks and Banking; Investments: Bonds; Investments: Stocks; Islamic Banking and Finance; Industries: Financial Services; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy; International Financial Markets; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Other Economic Systems: Public Economics; Financial Economics; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data); Pension Funds; Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation; Banking; Investment & securities; Finance; Islamic banking; Islamic finance; Bonds; Stocks; Financial services; Financial institutions; Banks and banking; Islamic countries; Financial services industry; Malaysia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; Figures; 1. Size of the Islamic Financial Services Industry; 2. Malaysia: Size of the Banking Sector; Boxes; 1. Malaysia: Developing the Islamic Finance Industry; 2. Malaysia: Islamic Finance Tax Incentives; II. Malaysia's Capital Markets and the Banking Sector: Stylized Facts; Tables; 1. Selected Asia: Bonds Outstanding in mid-2011; 3. Malaysia: Size of the Local Currency Bond Market; 4. Selected Asia: Foreign Holdings in Local Currency Government Bonds; 5. Malaysia: Size of the Islamic Bond Market; 6. Stock Market Performance; 7. Malaysia: Banking Sector Structure III. Islamic and Conventional Bonds and Stocks in Malaysia; 2. Malaysia: Size of the Banking Sector; 8. Malaysia: Monthly Bond Returns; 9. Malaysia: Monthly Equity Returns; 10. Malaysia: Contributions of Common Factors to Bond and Equity Returns; 11. Malaysia: Factor Loadings of the Common Economic Factor; 3. Malaysia: Empirical Analysis of Bond and Stock Returns; 4. Malaysia: Strength and Profitability of Islamic and Conventional Banks; IV. Are Islamic Banks Safer and More Profitable Than Conventional Banks; 12. Malaysia: Loan Classification; 13. Malaysia: Capital, Reserves, and Total Deposits14. Malaysia: Deposit Classification by Holder; V. Policy Implications and Conclusions; References
• Sommario/riassunto: What attracts conventional investors to Islamic financial instruments? We answer this question by comparing Malaysian Islamic and conventional security prices and their response to macrofinancial factors. Our analysis suggests that Islamic and conventional bond and equity prices are driven by common factors. Likewise, especially in recent years, Islamic banks have responded to economic and financial shocks in the same way as conventional banks, suggesting that the gap between Islamic and conventional financial practices is shrinking.

Reason to believe [[electronic resource] ] : cultural agency in Latin American evangelicalism / / David Smilde

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784418303321
• Autore: Smilde David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-35866-9; 0-520-94014-8; 9786612358661; 1-4337-0841-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: The anthropology of Christianity ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 280/.409877
• Soggetti: Evangelicalism - Venezuela - Caracas; Pentecostalism - Venezuela - Caracas; Christianity and culture - Venezuela - Caracas; Men - Religious life; Caracas (Venezuela) Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Beginnings -- Imaginative rationality -- Relational imagination.
• Sommario/riassunto: Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For converts, it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support, which together have helped many overcome substance abuse, avoid crime and violence, and resolve relationship problems. But can people simply decide to believe in a religion because of the benefits it reportedly delivers? Based on extensive fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this rich urban ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs and practices.