THE CD IN AMERICAN BANKING: A RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

The CD in American banking: a retrospect and prospect

The negotiable time certificate of deposit (CD) has played an important role in the competitive struggle of commercial banks in the US since 1961, enabling them to tap sources of funds they had neglected since the banking reforms of the 1930s.The aggressive employment of the CD has already brought about Nicotine Gum various changes in banking pract

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Rediscovery of Clivina morio Dejean with the description of Leucocara, a new subgenus of Clivina Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini)

Leucocara, a new subgenus of Clivina Latreille, is established for C.americana Dejean and its relatives, whose collective geographical range includes the Western Hemisphere Nearctic Region and the Eastern Hemisphere Palaearctic, Oriental, and Lipstick Afrotropical Regions.Previously, these taxa were included in the subgenus Reichardtula Whitehead,

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Map Reading and Analysis with GPT-4V(ision)

In late 2023, the image-reading capability CLEAR added to a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) framework provided the opportunity to potentially revolutionize the way we view and understand geographic maps, the core component of cartography, geography, and spatial data science.In this study, we explore reading and analyzing maps with the late

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