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THE INFLUENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS ON STOCK RETURN (Case Study: Company Listed in LQ45 2011-2014)

Consumption and investment are the two things are related because, delay consumption at a time could be interpreted as an investment that is used for future consumption. The investment is an investment for one or more assets owned and usually in a long period of time with the hope of obtaining a profit in the future. Investments can be classified into direct investment and indirect investment. Direct investment made by purchasing directly from a company's financial assets either through intermediaries or by any other means. One of which is included in direct investment. Fundamental and technical information can be used as a basis for investors to predict the return, risk or uncertainty, the amount, timing, and other factors associated with investment activities in the capital market. Based on the problem background above the purpose of this research is to analyze the effect ROA, CR, EPS, and NPM influence on stock returns, partially and simultaneously. Using a regression method as a data analysis tools, this research found that ROA, CR, EPS, and NPM has significant influence on stock returns, partially and simultaneously. Keywords : investment, fundamental, technical, investors, stock returns
Entrepreneurship and Ethics in the Chinese Context

As China continues to make the transition to a market economy and to emerge as a global economic power, entrepreneurship grows increasingly important.The ethics of entrepreneurship in China revolves around guanxi ("connections"), interpersonal networks that Chinese use as a crucial social resource to pursue their personal interests.Despite the attempts of the government to replace guanxi with more egalitarian, bureaucratic controls, entrepreneurs continue to exploit their guanxi with local officials to maximize both protection and profit.They also maintain strong guanxi with fellow entrepreneurs.While decentralization of economic control has resulted in rapid growth, many entrepreneurs are using their newly acquired liberty and power to exploit large numbers of Chinese citizens.Reports of terrible sweatshop conditions in the Chinese textile and footwear industries indicate that owners are eager to achieve competitive advantage by spending as little as possible on labor. Until the government decides that China is ready can compete in world markets with developed-world working conditions, sweatshops will likely remain alive and well. (SAA)
The Relation between Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Effects of Idiosyncratic Variance on Stock Returns in G7 Countries

This paper suggests that CAPM-based idiosyncratic variance (IV) correlates negatively with future stock returns because it is a proxy for loadings on discount-rate shocks in Campbell*s (1993) ICAPM. The ICAPM also implies that there are important links between the time-series and cross-sectional IV effects. For example, the coefficients on conditional stock market variance and value-weighted average IV obtained from the time-series regressions reflect loadings on stock market returns and discount-rate shocks, respectively; therefore, they should help explain the cross section of stock returns. Moreover, we expect a close relation between the IV and book-to-market effects because recent studies show that the latter also reflects intertemporal pricing. These conjectures are strongly supported by the G7 countries* data.
Trends in socioeconomic status-related differences in mortality among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

RATIONALE Previous studies have demonstrated that people of higher socioeconomic status (SES) have better chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) health outcomes than those of lower SES. Mortality of people with COPD has decreased over the last decade; however, it is not known if all individuals with COPD have benefitted equally. OBJECTIVE The objective of the current study was to examine the impact of SES on mortality trends of individuals with COPD. METHODS We conducted a population-based study using health administrative data from Ontario, Canada, between 1996/7 and 2011/12. Individuals with COPD were identified using a previously validated case definition. SES was determined using average household income of the individual's neighborhood as per the Canadian Census. Trends in standardized COPD mortality rates among different SES quintiles were observed over time. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Overall, age- and sex-standardized mortality of people with COPD decreased from 5.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], 5.5-5.8) in 1996/7 to 3.7% (95% CI, 3.6-3.8) in 2011/12, representing a 35% relative decrease. The mortality difference between the lowest and highest income quintiles increased from 67 per 10,000 individuals in 1996/7 to 86 per 10,000 individuals in 2011/12, representing a 28% relative increase (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Mortality in people with COPD has decreased faster in people with the highest compared with the lowest SES, causing increased disparity between rich and poor. Further study and strategies are needed to explore and address factors responsible for this increasing disparity in the COPD population.
Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market

Using individual-level data on male non-managerial workers from the 1996 British New Earnings Survey, we estimate overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on overtime pay and hours? (b) Is premium pay positively related to the length of weekly overtime? (c) What is the influence of collective bargaining coverage on overtime pay and hours? (d) Does overtime working serve significantly to alter wage earnings differentials between covered and uncovered workers? These and other issues are discussed comparatively in relation to unregulated British overtime working practices and to the United States were overtime is subject to mandatory rules.
Pleasure attainment or self-realization: the balance between two forms of well-beings are encoded in default mode network

Abstract What is a good life and how it can be achieved is one of the fundamental issues. When considering a good life, there is a division between hedonic (pleasure attainment) and eudaimonic well-being (meaning pursuing and self-realization). However, an integrated approach that can compare the brain functional and structural differences of these two forms of well-being is lacking. Here, we investigated how the individual tendency to eudaimonic well-being relative to hedonic well-being, measured using eudaimonic and hedonic balance (EHB) index, is reflected in the functional and structural features of a key network of well-being—the default mode network (DMN). We found that EHB was positively correlated with functional connectivity of bilateral ventral medial prefrontal cortex within anterior DMN and bilateral precuneus within posterior DMN. Brain morphometric analysis showed that EHB was also positively correlated with gray matter volume in left precuneus. These results demonstrated that the relative dominance of one form of well-being to the other is reflected in the morphometric characteristics and intrinsic functions of DMN.
Seasonal variation in food preference and feeding ecology of two juvenile marine fishes, Pseudotolithus senegalensis (Sciaenidae) and Brachydeuterus auritus (Haemulidae) off Cape Coast, Ghana

Aspects of the feeding habits and diet of juveniles of the cassava croaker Pseudotolithus senegalensis (Valenciennes, 1833) (Sciaenidae) and bigeye grunt Brachydeuterus auritus (Valenciennes, 1831) (Haemulidae) in the inshore waters of Cape Coast, Ghana are reported in the study. Both species had a similar diet consisting of larvae of fish, shrimps and cuttlefish. The croaker ingested prey up to 77% of its total length while the bigeye grunt consumed prey up to 70% of its total length. Analysis of the stomach contents, based on the frequency of occurrence, and numerical and gravimetric compositions of these food items indicated that shrimps were the main food of P. senegalensis while B. auritus fed mainly on fish. While shrimps constituted the predominant food of the croakers all-year-round, the bigeye grunts appeared to shift their preference for fish to shrimps from June to September. The results of the study are compared with those on croakers from other parts of the Gulf of Guinea. The study, however, appears to be the first to give a detailed account of the food preference and feeding ecology of the bigeye grunt.
Impacts of respect, support, and teamwork on hotel employees' morale in Egypt

Employees' morale plays a vital role in the success of any organization. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of some organizational variables, i.e. respect, support, and teamwork on employees' morale in Egyptian five-star hotels. From total number of 157 five-star hotels in Egypt, a random sample of 55 hotels was selected, representing 35% of the population. The results of the study revealed a significant relationship between employees' perception of respect, support, and teamwork and their morale. The findings of the study provide a clear indication that hotel management has to consider ways of improving workplace relationships by making efforts to support employees, respect their needs, and enhance teamwork in order to heighten morale.
Dopamine, the Second Putative Protagonist in Headache

PAIN PERCEPTION,1,2 vomiting,3 arterial blood pressure,4-6 and affect,7 funtions involved in migraine and other idiopathic headache (IH), are partially controlled by dopaminergic systems, therefore dopamine8 (DA) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)9,10 may have a role in the pathogenesis of IH. It has been suggested that pain in IH is central in nature and caused by impaired processing of painful stimuli in the central nervous system.11 Impaired pain perception or dysnociception, could be the result of brain deficiency of 5-HT,12-14 the main mediator in the antinociceptive system.15-16 We have therefore, investigated drugs which affect turnover, release and the postsynaptic receptors of DA in IH.
Silent information regulator 3: the Goldilocks of the silencing complex.

A recent explosion of work surrounds the interactions between Sir3p (Silent Information Regulator 3) and chromatin. We review here the Sir3p functions related to its role in silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This unusual protein, which is absolutely required for silencing, is distantly related to the highly conserved replication initiator Orc1p, but is itself phylogenetically limited to "post-genome-duplicated" budding yeasts. Several recent studies revise earlier models for Sir3p action. Specifically, the N-terminal bromo-adjacent homology (BAH) domain plays a now well-defined role in silencing, and a picture is emerging in which both termini of Sir3p bind two locations on the nucleosome: (1) the loss of ribosomal DNA silencing (LRS) surface in the nucleosome core, and (2) the N-terminal histone tails for effective silencing at telomeres. We relate Sir3p structure and function, and summarize recent molecular studies of Sir3p/chromatin binding, Sir3p/Dot1p competition, and the possible role of O-Acetyl ADP ribose (O-AADPR) in Sir3p/chromatin binding. We emphasize recent genetic data that provide important new insights and settle controversies created by in vitro work. Finally, we synthesize these ideas to revise the model for how Sir3p mediates silent chromatin formation in yeast, in part through its affinity for the LRS region of the nucleosome, which must be "just right. "
Retraining and other factors associated with job finding after redundancy

Six months after closure of their steelworks, 1655 ex-employees were interviewed. The main purpose of the study was to evaluate a programme of retraining provided to assist redundant people to obtain new work. Job finding was seen to be associated with a combination of retraining, age and work orientation. Ex-employees who had received pre-closure training reported a stronger preference for their new jobs than did non-trainees, but there were no differences between these groups in post-redundancy wage levels. Job-seeking behaviour was also examined and compared to the patterns described in earlier studies. Recommendations were made for retraining procedures in future redundancy situations.
Firm strategy and knowledge management in strategic supply chain relationships: a knowledge-based view

Using the knowledge-based view, this study seeks to understand the relationship between firm strategic orientation and interorganizational knowledge management in strategic supply chain alliances of high technology firms. Unique to prior literature, this study relates three dimensions of strategic orientation (alliance, leadership, and learning) with two modes of interorganizational knowledge management (knowledge creation and knowledge acquisition) and measures the impact of knowledge management on firm performance. Data was collected through self-response survey completed by top executives of high-technology firms. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the theoretical hypotheses.
Assessing European Firms' Exports and Productivity Distributions: The CompNet Trade Module

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions of the firm-level exports performance and productivity in a panel of 15 countries, 23 manufacturing sectors during the 2000’s. We confirm that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more productive than starters. At the intensive margin, we show that both the level and the growth of firm-level exports rise with firm productivity, and that the bulk of aggregate exports in each country are made by a small number of highly productive firms. Finally, we show that during the crisis, the growth of exports by high productive firms sustained the current account adjustment of European “stressed” economies. This last result confirms that the shape of the productivity distribution within each country can have important consequences from the point of view of the dynamics of aggregate trade patterns.
A DECADE OF SCM LITERATURE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

This study covers a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) field, offering an in-depth analytical review focused on the existing trends and gaps in the supply chain literature. Nine academic journals were investigated and a subject categorization is developed for SCM research. A content analysis was then conducted on 405 articles, focusing on the categories covered within the SCM literature, various levels of the chain examined and sample populations and industries studied, as well as the research methods employed. Finally, a conceptual framework of the most highly researched categories in SCM indicates that there is a need for more research that seeks to understand the nature of multiple links in SCM chains and networks, as opposed to focusing on dyadic and inter-firm relationships.
Total daily activity is associated with cognition in older persons.

OBJECTIVES The authors tested the hypothesis that total daily physical activity is related to the level of cognition in older persons. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Retirement communities across the Chicago metropolitan area. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred twenty-one older persons without dementia. MEASUREMENTS Participants underwent structured evaluation of cognition and objective measures of total daily physical activity were collected using actigraphy. RESULTS In a linear regression model adjusted for age, sex, and education, total daily activity was associated with a global measure of cognition. By contrast, self-report physical activity was not associated with cognition. Further analyses showed that total daily activity was related to all five cognitive subscales. CONCLUSIONS Objective measures of total daily physical activity were associated with a broad range of cognitive abilities in older persons. These findings support the link between physical activity and cognition in the elderly.
Working Mother Attitude and Practices of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Amac , Fct-Abuja UDOUDO

The study on working mothers attitude and practice of exclusive breastfeeding in AMAC. The respondents were selected through simple random sampling. In all a total of 324 were sample for the study. Data was collected randomly from various immunization clinics in AMAC, and analyzed using simple percentage methods. The findings showed that the variables like mothers level of knowledge, mother's attitude towards exclusive breastfeeding, mothers, level of education among others were all significant to their practice of exclusive of breastfeeding, while cultural beliefs are not associated with exclusive breastfeeding practice. In conclusion, the study recommended for better practice of exclusive breastfeeding. More education for mother's and the general public on the benefits and need for exclusive breastfeeding. Also the extension of maternity leave to enable other's have enough time to practice exclusive breastfeeding, and provision of creches in all offices to enable working mothers breastfeed their babies properly and teaching of mothers ways of expressing of o breast milk and storage of expressed breast milk so as to improve the rate of exclusive breastfeeding practice by working mothers and the society at large.
Regulation and functions of Rho-associated kinase.

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding effector molecules of small GTPase Rho, especially Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase/ROK/ROCK), in the past 5 years. Rho-associated kinase appears to mediate a large proportion of the signals from Rho and regulate dynamic reorganization of cytoskeletal proteins, such as stress fiber and focal adhesion formation. Several substrates of Rho-associated kinase have been reported and their cellular functions unraveled. In this review, we focus on the regulation and cellular functions of Rho-associated kinase.
Breaking the myths on emerging consumers in retailing

Purpose – The research objective was to understand what low‐income or emerging consumers living in the Latin American region understand as value when considering retail offerings.Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed for primary research was qualitative. Six of the major markets were selected: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. Four focus groups were conducted in each country, resulting of a total of 208 participants. Target consumers were women from the emerging socio‐economic strata (SES). Secondly, this study relies upon a wide selection of secondary research and data sources: syndicated data sources such as A.C. Nielsen; local retail associations such as ABRAS in Brazil and ANTAD in Mexico; journal and popular press articles, SES profiles and previously published, relevant consumer studies.Findings – Rather than emphasizing their limited income, emerging consumers as a group represent a sizable market for consumer products. But they should not be addressed as a.
Activation of bovine neutrophils by Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin is calcium dependent

In this study, we used the fluorescent probe Fluo‐3 to show that an increase in cytosolic free calcium, [Ca2+]i, occurred when suspensions of bovine neutrophils were incubated with sublethal concentrations of P. haemolytica leukotoxin. This increase in [Ca2+]i was dependent on the concentration of leukotoxin present in the medium and, at a given concentration of leukotoxin, dependent on the external calcium concentration. The calcium channel blocker verapamil and the β‐adrenergic antagonist propranolol inhibited leukotoxin‐stimulated Ca2+ gain, as did a neutralizing antileukotoxin monoclonal antibody. As reported previously, incubation of bovine neutrophils with partially purified leukotoxin stimulated a vigorous luminol‐dependent chemiluminescence response (LDCL). The present study shows that LDCL stimulation was dependent on the presence of extracellular calcium and was inhibited by the addition of verapamil and propranolol. These data indicate that bovine neutrophils exhibit a considerable increase in cytoplasmic free calcium when they are incubated with P. haemolytica leukotoxin in the presence of external calcium. They also provide evidence that an increased [Ca2+]i is required for functional activation of the bovine neutrophil oxidative burst by P. haemolytica leukotoxin.
Spillovers and competition among foreign and local firms in China

Combining the FDI spillover literature with a competitor analysis framework, we examine the relative size of spillover and competition effects in China between foreign entrants and local firms, among foreign entrants, and among local firms. Our results show that the increased presence of foreign entrants has generally benefited local firms nationally, but has negatively affected the survival rates of local firms in regional markets. Surprisingly, foreign entrants are crowded out not only by their peers, but also by reformed local firms at both the national and regional levels. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Low-paid workers: How many live in low-income families?

Simply being employed is no longer enough to exempt a person from economic and social risks. Low-wage workers are less likely to have access to non-wage benefits such as pension plans, supplemental health insurance, and dental plans. Furthermore, low-wage jobs are more likely to be temporary or part-time and less likely to be unionized. Jobs with no certainty of continuing, with less input into working conditions, less regulatory protection, and low wages have been termed ‘precarious’ (Rodgers 1989).
The Tradeoff between Risk Sharing and Information Production in Financial Markets: Evidence from Stock Splits

We show that three proxies for stock price informativeness, adjusted probability of information based trading (AdjPIN), price non-synchronicity and probability of information-based trading (PIN), decrease significantly due to an enlarged investor base after stock splits. The results are supportive to the risk sharing hypothesis proposed by Peress (2010) who argues that investors are less incentivized to gather firm specific information when firms investor base expands. Furthermore, we find that the change of the price informativeness around splits is negatively related to the magnitude of positive return drifts following splits. This result is consistent with the notion that less information produced and incorporated in stock prices results in a sluggish response by the market to corporate events.