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Islamic banking grows promisingly in line with an increase in public confidence in Islamic business and the economy. Even though there is an increase in terms of assets, financing, and deposits, there has been a slowdown in business growth in the last five years, due to (i) the high cost of funds, (ii) low public understanding and awareness so that Islamic bank depositors are only dominated by certain group or categories commonly called core depositors, and (iii) the behaviors of core depositors which tend to carry out displaced commercial risk, and may withdraw funds or disbursement of deposits at any time. Besides, the problem of core depositors' behaviors could also cause liquidity imbalance in banks which is dominated by short-term funding with longer-term financing tenors. These conditions must be the focus of banks to mitigate liquidity risks to increase profitability and business performance. This study aims to analyze the internal and macroeconomic factors that affect the sensitivity of core depositors in Islamic and conventional banking in Indonesia used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach and Granger causality test used monthly data from 2013-2019. The results showed that the Islamic banking core depositors are more sensitive to the performance of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), the Exchange rate (FEX), and the Repo rate (RRA). Meanwhile, conventional core depositors are sensitive to Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR) and FEX. The impact of core depositors' sensitivity to liquidity risk has been seen in conventional banks, while the core depositors of Islamic banks have no impact on liquidity risk. This paper specifically complements the previous research on the analysis of core depositors and that it can be used as an early warning sign of liquidity risk on Islamic and conventional banks in Indonesia.

Introduction: Laparoscopic splenectomy started to be more popular and nowadays it is the first choice for splenectomy in children. The main advantages of laparoscopic splenectomy over open approach are the shorter hospital stay, low complications and the cosmetic results despite the main concern of long operative time and the intra operative bleeding., Aim: The aim of this study was to report our experience with laparoscopic splenectomy in children's with hematological diseases using ligasure regarding vascular control safety, efficacy and complications rate., Methods: A retrospective study was carried out at Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Hospital for Children over the period from January 2017 to February 2019. Total number of 18 patients with hematological diseases underwent laparoscopic splenectomy using ligasure. Demographic data, complications and outcomes were collected to assess the advantages of ligasure usage for vascular control safety., Results: Out of 18 patients underwent laparoscopic splenectomy using ligasure (10 with spherocytosis, 4 with immune thrombocytopenic purpura [ITP], 3 with sickle cell anemia, 1 with hemangioma), from which number, 8 patients were males and 10 were females. Mean age was 6.7 years (ranges from 4.3 to13.7 years). Mean operative time was 107 minutes (ranges from 70-180 minutes). There was no conversion to open splenectomy and no mortality. Intra operative blood loss was insignificant., Conclusion: Laparoscopic splenectomy using ligature is safe with excellent results in decreasing operative time, less complications and decrease incidence of intraoperative bleeding., Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest, (© 2020 Waseem Al-Meflh, Samer Karadshah, Gaith Khasawneh, Ahmad Abu Qurah, Baha Abddullah, Ahmad Al Raymoony, Nizar Al Saidah, Alaa Gayet.)