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Granting employee stock options (ESOs), market reaction and financial performance
Published 2009“…Firm size has been identified in previous studies as a determinant of market reaction and post-ESO performance. Indeed we find this to be the case for Malaysian ESOs. We find a positive announcement effect for large firms but a significantly negative one for small firms. …”
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Lead time management in the garment sector of Bangladesh: an avenues for survival and growth
Published 2009“…In this study attempts have been made to find out the ways to face the competitive business environment by the efficient management process towards the lead time reduction. …”
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The impact of corporate governance on the restrictiveness of covenants in private debt contract
Published 2012“…Our cross-sectional analysis on a sample of new syndicated loans in the U.S private debt market indicates that both a corporate governance score and board independence are positively and significantly associated with covenant slack. Similarly, we find that independent directors’ financial expertise and covenants slack are positively related, but we find no evidence that slack is associated with ‘busy’ directors or CEO duality. …”
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Journalism cupcakes: Same cakes, different icing or vice-versa
Published 2014“…After three to four years of study, journalism graduates from these universities would have to share the same pie to find jobs in media or communication related organizations. …”
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The effect of material property gradient on the fracture toughness of a PMMA/PC bimaterial with a crack normal to the interface
Published 2005“…Finite element analysis was used to find out the stresses IC in the specimens. Subsequently the stress values were used to find out the fracture toughness of each specimen. …”
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Rural transformation and productivity in China
Published 2008“…This paper carries out for the first time an econometric investigation of the contribution of rural transformation to total factor productivity in China. We find that the efficiency gains resulting from rural transformation make a significant and nontrivial contribution to factor productivity in China. …”
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Pattern of the news media consumption and news discussion among youth : a test of agenda setting theory
Published 2011“…The specific objectives of the study are (1) to determine the level of perceived news media credibility, (2) to find out the level of news media consumption, (3) to find out the extent of interpersonal news discussions, (4) to analyze the relationship between perceived media credibility and news media consumption with interpersonal news discussions, and (5) to differentiate between selected demographic characteristic with news media consumption and interpersonal news discussions. …”
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Pricing efficiency of the 3-month KLIBOR futures contracts: An empirical analysis
Published 2009“…The study spans the contract's entire 10-year history, June 1996 to June 2006. In line with findings in other markets, we find a pre-ponderance of overpricing. …”
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Pattern of the news media consumption and news discussion among youth: a test of agenda setting theory
Published 2010“…The specific objectives of the study are (1) to determine the level of perceived news media credibility, (2) to find out the level of news media consumption, (3) to find out the extent of interpersonal news discussions, (4) to analyze the relationship between perceived media credibility and news media consumption with interpersonal news discussions, and (5) to differentiate between selected demographic characteristic with news media consumption and interpersonal news discussions. …”
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Date seed extract as preservatives
Published 2011“…The increasing demand for minimally-processed. extended shelflife foods and rcpons of ehemical preservatives as having potential toxicity demands food manufacturers to find altcrnative snurccs of anTimicrobial compounds. …”
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On dynamical systems and phase transitions for q + 1-state p-adic Potts model on the Cayley tree
Published 2013“…In antiferromagnetic case, there are two attractive fixed points, and we find basins of attraction of both fixed points, and describe solutions of the nonlinear recursive equation. …”
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Combined influence of carrier mobility and dielectric constant on the performance of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
Published 2014“…We also find that if the dielectric constant of the active material can be increased significantly (to around 8 or higher), it is then possible that the mobility of the active material need not to be improved in order to achieve the maximum efficiency. …”
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األلعاب اللغوية في تعليم اللغة العربية في املدارس االبتدائية في برنامج جي قاف(J-QAF)في ماليزيا : دراسة تحليلية = Al-al'aab al-lughawiyah fii ta'liim al-lughah al-arabiyah fii al-m...
Published 2015“…This research aims to find out how the use of language games and their impact in the educational attainment of the primary school students in the Arabic language education in the j-QAF program, and also aims to identify the extent of the application of the proposed model language games existing models in the textbooks. …”
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Bank specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability: empirical evidence from the China banking sector
Published 2009“…This paper seeks to examine the determinants of the profitability of the Chinese banking sector during the post-reform period of 2000–2005. The empirical findings from this study suggest that all the determinants variables have statistically significant impact on China banks profitability. …”
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The equilibrium real effective exchange rate of China : a NATREX approach
Published 2008“…However the misalignment rates are much lower than those reported by previous studies. We also find weak evidence of overvaluation for most of the pre-reform period. …”
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Technical oral presentations: knowledge and practices among technical students
Published 2017“…Thus, this paper does not only aim to explore the respondents’ overall feedback on TOP, but also to find out the respondents’ experiences in conducting TOP. …”
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A comprehensive survey on ‘‘various decoupling mechanisms with focus on metamaterial and metasurface principles applicable to SAR and MIMO antenna systems’’
Published 2020“…Such techniques include the use of defected ground structure (DGS), parasitic or slot element, dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), complementary split-ring resonators (CSRR), decoupling networks, P.I.N or varactor diodes, electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures, etc. …”
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Madame Reilly, fortune teller
Published 1985“…Behind her, a handwritten advertisement reading 'Come and find happiness and joy speaking to Madame Reilly'. …”
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Moringa oleifera seeds as natural coagulant for water treatment
Published 2009“…Therefore, it is of great importance to find a natural alternative for water coagulant to treat the turbidity. …”
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