Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Do confucianism and political connections affect stock price crash risk: evidence from Chinese economy?

ABSTRACT Utilizing a large dataset on Chinese A-Share listed firms comprising 18763 firm-year observation for the period of 2001–2015, we examined whether Confucianism and political connections lessen the stock price crash risk of firms by using geographical-proximity-based Confucianism variables. Our findings point towards the evidence that firms situated in China with higher levels of Confucianism reveal low levels of stock price crash risk and this relationship is incrementally significant for politically connected firms while controlling for a battery of control variables. Our results are robust by using alternate proxies.
Pride and Prestige: Why some firms pay their CEOs less

We investigate the impact of firms’ prestige on CEO compensation and find that CEOs of more prestigious firms earn less. Specifically, total CEO pay is on average 9% lower for firms listed in Fortune’s ranking of America’s most admired companies. We suggest that CEOs derive benefits from working for a company that enjoys public admiration, and that boards extract pay concessions for these benefits. Our identification strategy is based on a regression discontinuity around the top 100 ranking. We perform a range of robustness checks and can exclude many alternative explanations, including that prestige just proxies for better corporate governance, for increased exposure of the pay setting process to media attention, or for talent in the managerial labor market.
Valuation: Accounting for Risk and the Expected Return

type="main"> Under accounting principles, the recognition of earnings is path-dependent and the path depends on risk and its resolution: under the so-called realization principle, earnings are not booked until uncertainty is resolved. In asset pricing terms, the principle means that earnings cannot be recognized until the firm can book a low-beta asset such as cash or a near-cash discounted receivable. If the risk to which this accounting responds is priced risk, the accounting indicates the expected return. This paper connects accounting under this principle to risk and return, summarizes the supporting empirical evidence, and examines the implications for research on the implied cost of capital, cash-flow betas, asset pricing models that imbed accounting numbers, and papers that assume an autoregressive model for the earnings path to infer the expected return. The accounting that captures risk and its resolution also has implications for the unsolved issue of specifying the appropriate accounting for accounting-based valuation models and, indeed, for financial accounting standards.
Dimensionality and Consequences of Customer Engagement: A Social Exchange Perspective

Based on social exchange theory (SET), as well as relationship marketing theory (RMT), this study investigates the impact of customer engagement (CE) underlying dimensions, namely, enthusiasm, attention, absorption, interaction and identification on customer loyalty and affective commitment in hospitality industry. This study also validates and confirms the multidimensionality of CE in hospitality industry. Perceptions of 240 hotel customers were used to explore the relationships. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis followed by multiple regression analysis were employed to examine the data. The empirical results indicate that by contrasting two rival models, five dimensional model provides the solid foundation and accomplishes excellent fit for data. Empirical results suggest that CE dimensions have influential impact on customer loyalty. Similarly, results demonstrate that CE has significant and positive influence on affective commitment. These findings offer insight into dimensionality and consequences of CE for academic research and bring value to service contexts particularly hospitality.
PENGARUH KEPEMILIKAN INSTITUSIONAL, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, DAN LEVERAGE TERHADAP FINANCIAL DISTRESS

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of institutional ownership (KI), intellectual capital (IC) and Leverage (DER) to financial distress (Springate) financial distress condition. Independent variables in this study are institutional ownership (KI), intellectual capital (IC) and Leverage (DER) and financial distress (Springate) partially or simultaneously. Population in this study is Manufacture companies’s sector listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2017. The sampling technique was using purposive sampling, obtained 128 sample data and use Panel data regression analysis using software Eviews 10. Random effect model was chosen after 3 regression panel test. Simultaneously, all the independet variables have significant effect to dependent variable (financial distress). Partially intellectual capital (IC) have negative significant effect with to financial distress. Leverage (DER) have positive significant effect to financial distress. But institutional ownership (KI) have no significant effect to financial distress. Keyword: Financial distress, Institutional Ownership, Intellectual Capital, Leverage
Circuit Design And Reliability Of A Cmos Receiver

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . v TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi LIST OF FIGURES . ix LIST OF TABLES. xiii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION.1 1.1 Motivation. 1 1.2 Research Goals. 3 1.3 Outline. 3 CHAPTER TWO: TRANSCIEVER ARCHITECUTURE . 5 2.1 RF Front-end Circuit Fundamental. 5 2.1.1 Low Noise Amplifier . 6 2.1.2 Mixer. 9 2.1.3 Frequency Synthesizer . 10 2.2 Review of Receiver Architectures . 11 2.2.1 Basic Receiver Architecture . 11 2.2.2 Conventional Superheterodyne Receiver. 12 vii 2.2.3 Direct Sampling . 13 2.2.4 Direct Conversion . 14 2.2. 5 Low-IF . 16 2.2. 6 Dual Conversion . 16 2.2. 7 Digital IF. 18 2.2. 8 Summary. 19 2.3 Different Wireless Standards . 19 2.4 Architecture. 20 CHAPTER THREE: SWITCH DESIGN . 22 3.
The Use of Electronic Dictionary in the Language Classroom: The Views of Language Learners.

E- Dictionaries have the potential to be a useful instrument in English Language classes, at the same time; it can be seen as a waste of time and a hindrance tool in the English Language classroom. This paper reports on students’ use of e-dictionary in two of “Educational Readings in the English Language” course sections through in-depth focus group discussions with some of the students. The overarching question that this study explores is “What are the students’ experiences in using e- dictionaries in Educational Readings in English classes at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Teacher Training students at A-Najah National University? ” Findings of this exploratory study show that students had great and exciting experience in using the mobile dictionary in learning new vocabularies. Therefore they have positive attitudes and perceptions toward mobile dictionary.
Technical efficiency and technology gap in Ghana’s cocoa industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity

ABSTRACT This study employs a stochastic metafrontier framework to examine the performance of smallholder cocoa farmers using cross-country survey from Ghana. The results indicate that the output of farmers from all the regions lags behind their potential with the mean technical efficiency of 0.65, 0.76, 0.60 and 0.74 for Western, Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti and Eastern regions, respectively. Each region faces a technology gap when their performances are compared with the technology available in the industry as a whole. The study identified sources of farmers’ technical inefficiency emanating from a combined effects of socioeconomic and farm-specific factors although effects of some variables were not significant. However, farmers in all the regions have the potential to overcome technological constraints and achieve the highest attainable productivity levels. It is, therefore, important that Ghana cocoa board strengthened its strategies to the latter to improve farmers’ technical and managerial skills on the efficient use of resources.
Identifying the Causality Relationship between Health Expenditure and Economic Growth: An Application on E7 Countries

This study aims to identify the causality relationship between health expenditure and economic growth in emerging economies. Within this framework, E7 countries are evaluated by using Pedroni panel cointegration method and Dumitrescu Hurlin panel causality analysis. For this purpose, annual data for the years between 1996 and 2016 is considered. As a result of Pedroni panel cointegration test, it is defined that there is a long run relationship between economic growth with total health expenditure and public health expenditure, but this relationship is not valid between private health care expenditure and economic growth. According to Dumitrescu Hurlin panel causality analysis results, it is concluded that there is not a causality relationship from the health expenditure to the economic growth. However, it is also determined that economic growth is the main cause of total, public and private health expenditure. Therefore, it is recommended that the role of private sector in health should be improved so that the health expenditure can have a positive contribution to the economic development of emerging countries.
Collaboration and document exchange among librarians in virtual communities: A case study of LIS Group

This paper investigates collaborations and document sharing activities among Iranian librarians over a nation-wide email forum known as LIS Group. The emails sent in 2016 were searched for traces of interlibrary loan, document delivery and knowledge sharing that resulted in 1038 emails. The sample was transferred to Excel where other features were extracted. The emails were categorized and their contents and attachments were labelled. Results showed that the female librarians participated more than male members in both request and response emails. Slightly more than half (54.1%) of emails contained personal requests and 41.1% demanded data or documents for library users. Journal and conference papers were in high demanded and 62% of provided documents were in English. No significant statistical difference was observed between the request and response emails. It is concluded that email groups provide a platform for knowledge sharing and document exchange among librarians especially in countries with poor formal interlibrary cooperative programs such as Iran. Professional ties can grow among information and library practitioners through participation in virtual communities.
Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the Limits of Translation Studies

archy. This book takes only the core categories of English clause combinations into consideration, but some types of clause combination have several different subtypes. Future studies could look at these. In addition, this is a book on a single topic, but it appears somewhat like a collection of papers, which will to some extent reduce its readability. Despite these problems, this book will function as a good introduction to the operating mechanism of the development of clause hierarchy.
ATTRIBUTION AND SELF-CONCEPT AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER MATURITY AMONG LECTURERS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF KANO STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined how attribution and self-concept predict career maturity of lecturers in tertiary institutions of Kano State. The study adopted correlation method with a sample of 312 out of 1,653 tertiary institutions’ teachers. Four hypotheses were formulated and tested through the use of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Standard Multiple Regressions. The result of the study posits that there is a significant relationship among attribution, self-concept and career maturity of lecturers in tertiary institutions of Kano State. That is to say attribution and self-concept of the teachers predict their career maturity. Among the independent variables, self-concept with a higher beta value of 0.631 serves as a major contributor toward predicting career maturity of the teachers in tertiary institutions of Kano State. This entails that Kano State Ministry for Higher Education should motivate her teachers to develop positive self-concept as well as internal attribution towards their career. Other recommendations were proffered for practical application, especially provision of necessary facilities to make the working environment friendlier.
Spreadable Media, Citizens, and Participatory Culture : Uses and Effects of Political Internet Memes

Internet memes, or “artifacts of participatory digital culture” (Wiggins & Bowers, 2015, p. 6), are increasingly visible in political contexts around the world. Appearing in social movements, political campaigns, and everyday discourse, Internet memes are believed to be a tool for people to communicate their personal-political opinions, values, and experiences in a digital public sphere. A study was undertaken to learn more about Internet meme users, by exploring the uses for Internet memes and the effects of Internet meme use in political settings. Drawing on concepts and empirical findings from the fields of memetics, communication science, and political participation research, this project approached Internet memes from a media-psychological perspective. Across three studies, this dissertation presents an exploration of the political relevance of Internet meme use. The first study dealt with the central motives for using Internet memes, and the role that users attribute to political Internet memes. In a Delphi-method interview study with meme experts (n=9) and regular meme users (n=16), participants discussed why they turned to Internet memes. A qualitative content analysis revealed that political meme use is driven by an interplay of self-expression, social identity, and entertainment motives. Participants also concluded that the use of political Internet memes can supplement, but not replace, other political activities. To focus on the political attitudes and behaviors of meme users, the second study used an online survey (N=333) to assess the antecedents and consequences of political Internet meme use. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that the use of political Internet memes can be significantly predicted by political interest and by political meme efficacy, or the belief that memes are an efficacious political activity. Further, meme use significantly predicted higher engagement in conventional and unconventional political activities, even when controlling for POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES "4 political interest. The third study was therefore aimed at uncovering mechanisms of possible mobilizing effects of political Internet meme use. In a controlled laboratory setting, participants (N=104) were randomly assigned into one of three conditions (meme consumption, private meme production, public meme production). Subsequent prosocial behavior tendencies (donating to a charity and signing up for a newsletter) were not found to differ across the conditions, although marginally significant interaction effects related to cost were found, along with a result related to a measure of selfish tendencies. Implications of the overall results and recommendations for future research are discussed. POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES "5
Effect of Real Estate News Sentiment on the Stock Returns of Swedbank and Seb Bank

This paper analyses the effect of real estate news sentiment on the stock returns of Swedbank and SEB Bank, which are leading banks in Sweden and the Baltic region. For this purpose, we have selected sentiments from news about real estate in the markets of these banks in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania between 4 January 2016 and 19 February 2019. Estimation results showed that sentiments about the housing market affect stock returns for the banks, and showed the presence of the asymmetric effects of positive and negative news. We also found that there is a difference in the stock returns of these banks in terms of when and to what extent they react to news coming from the Baltic States and Sweden. Moreover, we found that the number of negative news affects the stock returns of the banks more than the strength of the news. We also apply several GARCH specifications to show that negative and positive news explain the asymmetric effects in the volatility processes to some extent. The asymmetric effects in the volatilities are captured much better by the GJR-GARCH and NA-GARCH models, implying that these effects are generated by idiosyncratic shocks rather than the sentiments in the news.
THE EFFECT OF ENGAGEMENT INTENSITY AND LEXICAL RICHNESS IN IDENTIFYING BOT ACCOUNTS ON TWITTER

The rise in the number of automated or bot accounts on Twitter engaging in manipulative behaviour is of great concern to studies using social media as a primary data source. Many strategies have been proposed and implemented, however, the sophistication and rate of deployment of bot accounts is increasing rapidly. This impedes and limits the capabilities of detecting bot strategies. Various features broadly related to account profiles, tweet content, network and temporal patterns have been utilised in detection systems. Tweet content has been proven instrumental in this process, but limited to the terms and entities occurring. Given a set of tweets with no obvious pattern, can we distinguish contents produced by social bots from those of humans? What constitutes engagement on Twitter and how can we measure the intensity of engagement among Twitter users? Can we distinguish between bot and human accounts based on engagement intensity? These are important questions whose answer will improve how detection systems operate to combat malicious activities by effectively distinguishing between human and social bot accounts on Twitter. This study attempts to answer these questions by analysing the engagement intensity and lexical richness of tweets produced by human and social bot accounts using large, diverse datasets. Our results show a clear margin between the two classes in terms of engagement intensity and lexical richness. We found that it is extremely rare for a social bot to engage meaningfully with other users and that lexical features significantly improve the performance of classifying both account types. These are important dimensions to explore toward improving the effectiveness of detection systems in combating the menace of social bot accounts on Twitter.
Composition, Provenance, and Tectonic Setting of the Southern Kangurtag Accretionary Complex in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Implications for the Late Paleozoic Evolution of the North Tianshan Ocean

The Kangurtag belt in the Eastern Tianshan, connecting the Dananhu Arc with the Central Tianshan Arc, contains diagnostic rocks of accretionary origin, and thus provides key information about the evolution of the North Tianshan Ocean. The Southern Kangurtag belt is composed of two types of mélange. Type I mélange consists of Enriched Mid‐Ocean Ridge Basalt‐type pillow basalts, draped by biohermal limestones and carbonate‐siliceous sediments of a slope facies, and siliceous argillites from a hemipelagic‐pelagic environment that together make up a seamount assemblage. In Type II mélange, Normal Mid‐Ocean Ridge Basalt and ribbon cherts were dismembered and entrained in a clastic matrix, showing a “block‐in‐matrix” structure. Detrital zircons of four sandstones from Devonian and Carboniferous strata within the mélanges have a predominant age population of 410–430 Ma and a distinct Proterozoic cluster around 1.4–1.6 Ga. The εHf(t) values of Phanerozoic zircons range from −25.1 to +8.6. Such age patterns, typical of the Central Tianshan Arc, and the Hf isotopic data indicate that these sedimentary successions were deposited on the northern margin of the Central Tianshan Arc. The youngest detrital zircon age of 317 Ma provides an upper limit for the time of formation of the Southern Kangurtag accretionary complex. Therefore, we suggest that the Southern Kangurtag belt comprises an accretionary complex that developed during southward subduction of the North Tianshan Ocean beneath the Central Tianshan Arc. This subduction began in the Early Ordovician and may have lasted until the Late Carboniferous–Permian.
Who Bears the Brunt? The Impact of Banking Crises on Younger and Older Workers

How do workers in different age groups fare on the labor market when a banking crisis occurs? Using data on 41 banking crises in 38 developed countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine how banking crises affect the labor market position of workers from five different age groups (including those aged 65 years and older) and whether employment protection legislation shields workers from unemployment. Results show that unemployment increases for all age groups in the aftermath of banking crises, but much more so for younger workers. The labor force participation of older women increases significantly in the medium run, whereas older men close to retirement withdraw from the labor market. Countries with strong employment protection legislation shield workers from the impact of banking crises in the short run but show signs of increases in unemployment rates for young and middle-aged workers in the medium run.
A Study on Development of Dual Phase Mobile Banking Adoption Model

The paper focused on development of mobile banking adoption model depicting two phases of mobile banking adoption vis-à-vis reducing the resistance to adopt mobile banking and inducing the adoption of mobile banking. The paper has used integrated Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as proposed by Gu et al. (2009), along with two other factors namely Trust and Relative Advantage to study mobile banking adoption behaviour and Resistance Model as proposed by Laukkanen & Kiviniemi (2010) adding relative disadvantage (negative relative advantage) as one more factor, to study the mobile banking resistance behaviour. The data has been collected using online as well as offline questionnaire from 633 respondents in India. The model of dual phase mobile banking adoption will raise an opportunity for increased use of mobile banking in India.
Survival analysis of Internet companies: An application of the hazard model

The purpose of this study is to develop a model that predicts failure and estimates the time of survival of dotcoms using a number of financial and nonfinancial factors. This model can be used as a warning tool for stockholders, creditors, and consumers to protect themselves from such failures. I employ the Cox (1972) Proportional Hazards Model in a cross-sectional and time-varying context using financial data over the 1998 2001 period. Results from a cross-sectional analysis reveal that the coefficient estimates for variables CFTL and NSTA are consistently negative and highly significant. This suggests that higher sales and cash flows lower the potential of failure. The results also show that NTTA is negative and significant at the 10% level, suggesting that higher revenues improve the survivability of a firm. Moreover, TLTA and WCTA show no significant effect on failure. On the other hand, the coefficient estimate on TA is positive and highly significant, suggesting that larger firms have higher odds of failure. This could be the result of an unsustainable growth rate among dotcoms. The excessive and rapid need for external sources of funds may raise the concerns of creditors about the financial position of the company and can lead to higher cost of funds and closer monitoring.
The Current Status and Impact of 3D Printing Within the Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Six Case Studies

3D Printing is a term used to describe a range of digital manufacturing technologies. The technology is used to produce component parts layer-by-layer through the use of materials and there are many different types of 3D printing processes. The shift in manufacturing capability has raised questions relating to intellectual property law. 3D printing now paves the way for modified, replicated and changed parts which could then be shared, used and sold. This clearly has implications for intellectual property owners. This Study produced for the UK Intellectual Property Office presents the second part of a two-part study and represents a series of case studies and interviews from the industrial sector.