Corporate governance and the information content of earnings announcements : a cross-country analysis by Lau, Sie Ting, Shrestha, Keshab, Yu, Jing

“…Using firm‐level data from 23 developed markets, we document a positive association between overall firm‐level governance quality and the informativeness of earnings announcements measured by abnormal stock return variance. This finding is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity of firm‐level corporate governance. …”
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The effect of similarity measures on the quality of query clusters by Fu, Lin, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Foo, Schubert

“…Implications for these findings are discussed.…”
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Extraction of attribute concepts from Japanese adjectives by Kyoko, Kanzaki, Bond, Francis, Tomuro, Noriko, Hitoshi, Isahara

“…We describe various syntactic and semantic conditions for finding abstractnouns which refer to concepts of adjectives from a text, in an attempt to explore the creation of a thesaurus from text. …”
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Sustainable rural tourism in Iran : a perspective from Hawraman village by Henderson, Joan C., Ghaderi, Zahed

“…The focus is on the reactions of residents and their perceptions of tourism impacts and formal policies. Findings indicate that villagers are concerned about the use of local natural and cultural resources for tourism purposes, recognising negative consequences which seem to them to outweigh positive effects. …”
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Social computing in tourism websites by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan

“…A total of 90 tourism-related websites was randomly drawn from Asia, American and Europe for analysis. The findings reveal that the order of prevalence among the different social computing tools is as follows: social tagging services, blogs, mashup, RSS and multimedia sharing services. …”
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Economic influence on rights issue announcement behavior in Malaysia by Salamudin, Norhana, Ariff, Mohamed, Md Nassir, Annuar

“…The term premiums, which decline (rise) during favourable (unfavourable) economic conditions, are correlated with announcement period returns. These findings support the good news hypothesis that the return is positive because investors expect the funds from issues to be used in profitable investment projects in a high growth emerging economy.…”
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Enhancing the resilience of supply chains in the fashion apparel industry through intelligent logistics—evidence from China by Cai, Junjie, Sharkawi, Ismawati, Taasim, Shairil Izwan

“…This study examines the impact of intelligent logistics on the resilience of supply chains in the fashion apparel industry, based on data from prefecture-level cities in China and A- share listed fashion apparel companies from 2008 to 2021. The findings show that intelligent logistics significantly enhance both the resistance and recovery capabilities of supply chains, promoting an overall improvement in supply chain resilience. …”
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Unveiling the enigma of blind box impulse buying curiosity: the moderating role of price consciousness by Gong, Xiyun, Yee, Choy Leong, Lee, Shin Yiing, Mohammad Saif, Abu Naser, Liu, Meilian, Anonthi, Fariah

“…Insights from an online survey of 306 Chinese respondents indicate that environmental factors and specific product characteristics positively influence consumer curiosity, while price consciousness has a negative moderate effect. The findings also show that customer curiosity stimulates impulse buying behavior and mediates the relationship between store atmosphere, surprise, and perceived novelty. …”
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Information Sources and Investment Decision among Malaysian Investors: Clarifying the Role of Gender and Product Knowledge by Yusuff, Noraini, Mansor, Fadillah, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Haji Hashim, Hydzulkifli

“…The result indicate that information sources strongly influence Islamic unit trust investment decision when the Muslim investors have low product knowledge. In addition, the finding also reveal that information sources strongly influence Islamic unit trust investment decision more for female investors than male investors…”
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Business Continuity Management Implementation in the Malaysian Public Sector by Abu Bakar, Zahari, Yaacob, Noorulsadiqin Azbiya, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli, Hanaysha, Jalal R. M., Lee, Khai Loon

“…Out of 73 questionnaires distributed, 38 responses were found to be usable, representing an effective response rate of 55 percent. The finding revealed that all participating government departments and agencies have implemented a BCM program. …”
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Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM by Doherty, Kevin J., Rosen, David M., Leonard, John J.

“…Our results reveal the critical role that spectral graph-theoretic properties of the measurement network play in controlling estimation accuracy; moreover, as a by-product of our analysis we obtain new bounds on the estimation error for the maximum likelihood estimators in SLAM and RA, which are likely to be of independent interest. Finally, we show experimentally that our spectral estimator is very effective in practice, producing initializations of comparable or superior quality at lower computational cost compared to existing state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Preference-Conditioned Language-Guided Abstraction by Peng, Andi, Bobu, Andreea, Li, Belinda Z., Sumers, Theodore R., Sucholutsky, Ilia, Kumar, Nishanth, Griffiths, Thomas L., Shah, Julie A.

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Development of a perfusable, hierarchical microvasculature-on-a-chip model by Chen, Sophia W., Blazeski, Adriana, Zhang, Shun, Shelton, Sarah E., Offeddu, Giovanni S., Kamm, Roger D.

“…The addition of collagen channels reduces the apparent permeability of the central capillary region, likely by reducing leakage from the side channels, enabling more accurate measurements of vascular permeability—an important motivation for this study. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…The prospect of deploying such a system on the sum of all digital engineering documents suggests a future where design failures are less likely to be repeated and past successes may be consistently used to forward innovation.…”
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Instrumental Effects in 21 cm Cosmology: One-point Statistics and Power Spectrum with the HERA Interferometer by Kim, Honggeun

“…In addition, I evaluate EoR models against observational data, suggesting the second moment measurements likely reject the cold reionization model characterized by inefficient X-ray heating. …”
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Know Thy Cell-Free DNA: Early Detection of Microsatellite Instability Using Ultra-Low-Pass Cell-Free DNA Sequences by Lu, Nicole

“…Thus, if cancerous cells exist within the body, its representation in a given cfDNA sample is likely low. Together, these challenges present a obvious trade-off between signal strength and cost/invasiveness for screening and detection of MSI. …”
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Equilibria, Efficiency, and Inequality in Network Formation for Hiring and Opportunity by Dwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon, Raghavan, Manish

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Predictive maintenance using machine learning by Amal Roy Lerroy Ashwin

“…PdM enables users to know in advance when a machine is likely to break down so that the required maintenance can be scheduled. …”
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Study on the impact of connected automated vehicle position on mixed traffic flow stability by Tan, Kenneth Chiao Wee

“…Likewise, when platooning CAVs are furthest away from the leading HDV and when all vehicles are platooning CAVs, traffic flow stability is likely to be in smooth condition.…”
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Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) can be suppressed under ammonia-stressed condition - reevaluate the role of conductive materials by Yan, Wangwang, Mukherjee, Manisha, Zhou, Yan

“…It is revealed that ZVI effectively promoted all AD reactions, especially the energy unfavorable propanoate and butanoate metabolism and overall methanogenesis. In addition, ZVI likely acted as intracellular electron shuttles, and the conjunction point of ZVI to electron transfer system was identified as EtfAB: quinone oxidoreductase. …”
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