Chaos systems consistently play an active role in today’s image encryption techniques. The ergodicity of chaos systems makes them suitable for image encryption. A number of image encryption algorithms based on chaotic systems have been proposed. In this paper, a new color image encryption...

In this paper a modified function for wavelet-based denoising scheme is proposed and tested for speaker independent noisy Hindi digits recognition using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features. Recognition performance achieved by using the proposed scheme is found to be superior to...

Do different institutional investors possess different sets of information? The extent to which different institutional investors offer different information to individual/naive investors remains an interesting question in information poor emerging stock markets. Using a comprehensive data of...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology stocks, such as FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), attracted the attention of global investors due to the vast use of technology in daily business. However, technology stocks are generally considered risky stocks; hence,...

The paper uses the data on 1212 microfinance institutions in 106 developing countries to document the impact of gender diversity on boards and gender diversity among borrowers on nonperforming loans (NPLs) during the period 2010-2018. The results show that microfinance institutions with a higher...