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MEAN REVERSION AND MOMENTUM IN CHINESE STOCK MARKETS T * T

While the vast majority of the literature reports momentum profitability to be overwhelming in the U.S. market and widespread in other countries, this paper finds that the pure momentum strategy in general does not yield excess profitability in the Chinese stock markets. We find instead strong mean reversion. A pure contrarian investment strategy produces positive excess returns and in general outperforms the pure momentum strategy. Momentum interacts with mean reversion. A strategy based on the rolling-regression parameter estimates of the model combining mean reversion and momentum generates positive excess returns in all cases, most of which statistically significant. The combined strategy outperforms both the pure momentum strategy and the pure mean reversion strategy. The strategy loads positively on the market risk factor, but the beta risk explains only a relatively small part of the excess return. Nor is transactions cost a dominant factor in explaining the excess profitability. While the vast majority of the literature reports momentum profitability to be overwhelming in the U.S. market and widespread in other countries, this paper finds that the pure momentum strategy in general does not yield excess profitability in the Chinese stock markets. We find instead strong mean reversion. A pure contrarian investment strategy produces positive excess returns and in general outperforms the pure momentum strategy. Momentum interacts with mean reversion. A strategy based on the rolling-regression parameter estimates of the model combining mean reversion and momentum generates positive excess returns in all cases, most of which statistically significant. The combined strategy outperforms both the pure momentum strategy and the pure mean reversion strategy. The strategy loads positively on the market risk factor, but the beta risk explains only a relatively small part of the excess return. Nor is transactions cost a dominant factor in explaining the excess profitability.
Tracer Study of Multimedia Arts Graduates of Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas from 2016-2019

– This research study mainly determined the employment status of AB Multimedia Arts graduates of Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas from 2016-2019. This study sought to determine the job placement profile of the graduates and as well the related relevance of school related to employment factor of the school. This also determines the work related values and the various skills to which contribute the demands of the media industry. The researchers made use of descriptive research method. This study used an Institutional questionnaire from the Research Center of the University. The questionnaire consists of three parts: job placement profile, relevance of school related factors to job placement and competency skills and work related values developed by the University to students. Participants of the study were the graduates of 2016-2019 composed of 51 respondents. Results showed that 88 percent of the surveyed graduates are employed and majority of them have regular employment status and are working in the Philippines. Relation to course/program or relation to special skills plays an important role in the consideration of job they are going to acquire. Since Multimedia Arts students are very-well versed in using the communication medium efficiently and effectively, it is deemed as the most helpful medium among the graduates. Their professional subjects such as Traditional Drawing, Digital Graphics, 2D Animation, Photography and the rest are very relevant and made a great impact in their chosen career and that they wanted to pursue in their job placement. The faculty member’s communication, mastery skills, quality of instruction, and how faculty members relate the subject in the real life situation proved to be the most relevant in terms of school related factors. LPU-Batangas may strengthen the internship program by tie-ups to some of the well-known media industries in order to train the students well and give them the real vantage of working in the industry or field.
Raumplanung: Rückzonungen sollen Einzonungen ermöglichen Coastal Proximity and Individual Living Standards: Econometric Evidence from Geo-Referenced Household Surveys

: We investigate geo-referenced household-level data consisting of up to 206,896 individuals living in 21,826 localities across 28 sub-Saharan African countries over 20 years. We analyse the relevance of coastal proximity as a predictor of individual economic living standards. Our setting allows us to account for country-time fixed effects as well as individual-specific controls such as age, gender, and most importantly, urbanity. Results reveal that individuals living further away from the coast are more disadvantaged than individuals living in coastal regions along an array of welfare indicators. The findings are robust to the inclusion of other geographic covariates of development such as climate (e.g. temperature, precipitation), elevation or terrain ruggedness. We also explore mechanisms through which coastal proximity may influence individual welfare and decompose the estimated effect of coastal proximity via formal mediation analysis. Our results highlight the role of human capital as well as infrastructural endowments in reconciling the large intra-national disparities in individual economic welfare.
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and its association with physical fitness among physiotherapy students attending public universities in Malaysia

: Physical fitness plays a key role in minimizing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) among physiotherapists. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of WRMSDs and their associated factors among physiotherapy students in public universities in Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire (Standardized Nordic Questionnaire) was distributed and physical fitness level was assessed on 114 undergraduate physiotherapy students from the only three public universities in Malaysia offering Physiotherapy program. Physical fitness assessments consisted of body composition, muscle flexibility, muscle strength and cardiorespiratory endurance tests. The overall prevalence of WRMSDs among physiotherapy students was 82% with more female reported having WRMSDs when compared to males students (84% vs. 73%, p <0.000). The lower back was reported as the body area most affected by WRMSDs within the past 12-months and 7 days (31% and 24%, respectively) followed by neck (16% and 10%, respectively) and shoulder (11% and 7%, respectively). Significant differences were observed between the proportion of students who had undergone clinical placement between 10-15, 16-20, and 21-25 weeks (χ 2 = 8.80 p = 0.003) on WRMSDs. However, no significant differences were observed on the prevalence of WRMSDs across BMI and level of physical fitness. In summary, the prevalence of WRMSDs among physiotherapy students in Malaysia is high and physical fitness are not associated with WRMSD.
Time and Cost Overrun in the Saudi Arabian Oil and Gas Construction Industry

Many construction projects exceed time and budget. The Saudi Arabian construction projects are not an exception to this phenomenon. However, the causes of time and cost overrun of Saudi Arabian oil and gas construction projects have never been studied. Thus, this paper endeavors to investigate the main causes of time and cost overrun in Saudi Arabian oil and gas construction projects. Thirty-eight causes of time and cost overrun were identified through the literature and an interview. Responses from 48 professionals based in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia were obtained. The respondents were solicited to evaluate the significance of the causes, which were then ranked and a test of agreement was conducted. All survey participants agreed that the five major causes of time and cost overrun, combined, were found to be “changing of design and scope by client during construction”, “poor planning and scheduling of project”, “design errors”, “Inadequate comprehension of scope of work at the bidding stage”, and “underestimating of cost and schedules/overestimating of benefits”. On the other hand, the major cause of time overrun was found to be “changing of design and scope by client during construction”. Finally, the major cause of cost overrun was found to be “underestimating of cost and schedules/overestimating of benefits”, respectively. The findings of this study will be beneficial to project stakeholders who must operate in an industry that is highly sensitive. The findings will also facilitate organizations planning to conduct construction projects in the Saudi Arabian oil and gas industry.
Modeling, Design, and Validation of Magnetic Hysteresis Motors

The use of hysteresis motors nowadays is limited to few niche-focused applications. Nevertheless, their intrinsic features make them ideal for next-generation high-speed machinery. Hysteresis motors are highly nonlinear and their behavior is heavily influenced by the initial magnetization state of the rotor active part. As such, the exploitation of hysteresis machine technology requires a reliable method to assess the torque capability, both numerically and experimentally. This paper proposes a finite-element model for the design of hysteresis motors. In this tool, rotor hysteresis is described through the vector generalization of the Jiles–Atherton model. For validation purposes, a prototype is defined based on a specific application. The torque of this prototype is experimentally characterized for different electrical loadings and rotor speeds. Subsequently, this output is measured after rotor magnetization at different levels. It is demonstrated that the initial condition of the rotor active part can be exploited in synchronous conditions to improve the machine output torque.
Working Paper Research Monetary policy effects on bank risk taking

Motivated by VAR evidence on the risk-taking channel in the US, we develop a New Keynesian model where low levels of the risk-free rate induce banks to grant credit to riskier borrowers. In the model an agency problem between depositors and equity holders incentivizes banks to take excessive risk. As the real interest rate declines these incentives become stronger and risk taking increases. We estimate the model on US data using Bayesian techniques and assess optimal monetary policy conduct in the estimated model, assuming that the interest rate is the only available instrument. Our results suggest that in a risk taking channel environment, the monetary authority should seek to stabilize the path of the real interest rate, trading off more inflation volatility in exchange for less interest rate and output volatility. JEL Classification: E12, E44, E58.
Human Resource Management Practices and Job Satisfaction of Academics in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of human resource management practices on job satisfaction among academics in a Malaysian higher education institution. Design/methodology/approach – A pilot study was carried out on a sample of 144 academics in a higher education institution. The respondents included a wide range of university faculties, departments and academic units in the participating university. A 30-item scale developed by Halid et al. (2020) and Hauret et al. (2020) were designed to measure human resource management practices and a 3-item scale developed by Noor (2013) was used to measure job satisfaction. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 were used to analyze the data and provided descriptive, correlation and regression analyses. Findings – Human resource management practices of recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, reward, recognition and promotion opportunities were significantly and positively related to job satisfaction. The results and statistical analysis of the current study could be a reference to indicate the effects of human resource management practices on job satisfaction among academics in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions. Research limitations/implications – This study focused on academics in a selected Malaysian Public Higher Education Institution. Thus, it is not possible to generalize the findings to academics in other public or private higher education institutions. This study also found difficulty to find the similar significant literature on human resource management practices and its relationship with job satisfaction within the Malaysian Higher Education sector. The other limitation in this study is the number of human resource management practices selected to be investigated and limited measurements to be considered in this study. Originality/value – This study made a significant contribution of human resource management practices and the current state of job satisfaction in Malaysian higher education particularly in the public sector. In light of the findings, it is worth considering that at the organizational level, there are a number of actions that can be adopted by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and the university management to increase and maintain the job satisfaction among academic staff in regards to its antecedents of human resource management practices. The study is also expected to provide useful reference for future researchers in this research area.
The Effect of Auricular Acupressure on Postpartum Perineal Pain: A Systematic Review

Background and objectives: One of the potentially effective methods for relieving postpartum perineal pain is auricular acupressure. This review aimed to evaluate the clinical effect of auricular acupressure on postpartum perineal pain in a systematic review. Material and Methods: An extensive systematic search was performed on online electronic databases, including Scopus, PubMed/MEDLINE, ProQuest, Web of Science, and Cochrane using the keywords related to the purpose, from the earliest to June 30, 2021. Results: Of 263 articles, three studies were included in the review. A total of 386 women with a mean age of 29.79 years were included in the review. Of the participants, 192 women were in the intervention group. Of the studies included, two studies evaluated auricular acupressure, and one study evaluated battlefield auricular acupuncture plus standard analgesia. Overall, the number of acupressure points varied from 3 to 5. In most cases, auricular acupressure was used at points of Shen Men (n=3) and the external genital area (n=2). Overall, auricular acupressure in one study out of three studies had a significant effect on reducing postpartum perineal pain. Two out of three studies reported no side effects of auricular acupressure for participants. Conclusion: It seems that auricular acupressure can be used as a simple, low-cost, and practical intervention to reduce postpartum perineal pain. However, future well-designed studies are needed to confirm the findings of this systematic review.
Relative Wavelet Entropy Complex Network for Improving EEG-Based Fatigue Driving Classification

Detecting fatigue driving from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals constitutes a challenging problem of continuing interest since fatigue driving has caused the majority of traffic accidents. We carry out a simulated driving experiment for EEG data acquisition. Then, we calculate the wavelet entropy under the alert and fatigue state, respectively, and find that the wavelet entropy gets an acceptable performance on classification. Despite that the traditional entropy-based methods have been successfully applied to detect EEG-based fatigue driving, how to improve the classification remains to be investigated. To solve this problem, we in this paper propose a novel relative wavelet entropy complex network (RWECN) for improving the classification accuracy. In particular, we infer the complex network by regarding each EEG channel as a node and determining the connections of nodes in terms of the relative wavelet entropy between the EEG signals. Then, we extract a series of network statistical measures to characterize the topological structure of the brain networks. We combine the wavelet entropy and RWECN statistical measures to form a feature vector for realizing the classification of different states through the Fisher linear discriminant analysis. The results suggest that our method allows obtaining intrinsic and effective features from fatigue EEG signals and enables to improve the classification accuracy of EEG-based fatigue driving.
Corporate Social responsibility, Brand Value, and Corporate Financial Performance: An empirical study from Vietnam commercial banking system

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The study uses data from balance sheets to analyze data of 27 commercial banks from 2009 to 2020 period to find out the role of brand value (BRV) in the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP). The paper indicated from the Random Effect Model (REM) regression results and reinforcement tests that BRV is a mediator in the relationship between CSR and CFP. The empirical results also show that CSR implication helps improve BRV while there is no impact on improving CFP in state-owned commercial banks. Additionally, bank scale has a positive effect, while debt leverage negatively affects commercial banks' business performance. These findings explain the transmission mechanism between CSR and CFP. Management policies suggested enhancing the proactive implementation of CSR in pursuit of business goals in Vietnamese commercial banks. CSR CFP CFP
APPAREL DESIGN USING IMAGE STYLE TRANSFER

: The Style Transfer Method has recently been applied to different applications, including social communication (e.g., Ostagram, Prisma), games, clothes, and movie. The style transfer algorithms have been effectively used to create new custom apparels in the fashion industry from which we have derived interest for his model. In this paper, we aim to provide a user interface for generating different apparels as per user’s choice providing them with multiple options to customize the apparel they want to generate. Most of the works haven’t focused on user preferences, hence we chose to give importance to them. The variety of user options that we are including are Style Images Scaling, Multiple Style Image Transfers, Style application on Region of Interest, Color Preservation of Content Images, Style Weighting choice in case of Multiple Style Images, Blending of Style Images and also Changing colors of style images based on user’s preferences. We employed Segmentation Model(U-NET) to extract masks of the clothing so that style transfer is only applied to clothing and not to any other area. The Style Transfer algorithm we used is IFT (Iterative Feature Transforms) which provides competition to Neural Style Transform (NST).
Education services quality of Kashan Medical Science University, based on SERVQUAL model in viewpoints of students

Introduction: Sustainable development of higher educational systems, as a dynamic system, requires a coherent moderate growth both in qualitative and quantitative dimensions. Since students are the major clients of higher education systems and their perspectives can play a key role in the quality promotion of the services; this study has been conducted based on SERVQUAL model aiming at the assessment of educational services quality in Kashan Medical Science University in 2016. Study Methodology: A total of 212 students of Kashan Medical Science University were selected with a population of 616 subjects through random sampling, using Morgan tables for this descriptive-analytical research. Data collection tools were the standard SERVQUAL questionnaire composing of three sections of basic information and 28 items, according to Likert six-option scale for the measurement of services quality current and desired expected conditions. The difference between the average of current and desirable statuses was measured as the services gap. Descriptive deductive statistics were used to analyze the obtained data. Results: The students aged averagely 23 ± 1.8, 65% (138 subjects) were female, and 35% (74 subjects) were male. About 72% (153 subjects) were single, and 28% (59 subjects) were married. The obtained results revealed that there was a negative gap in all dimensions of quality. The results also showed that the minimum gap obtained for learning assist tools (physical and tangibility dimensions) with an amount of −0.38 and the maximum gap for guide instructor availability once needed by the students (accountability dimension) with an amount of −2.42. Total mean of perceptions and expectations measurement for the students obtained 2.28 and 3.85, respectively. Conclusion: Respecting the negative gap obtained for all dimensions of educational services quality and insufficiencies to meet the students' expectations, it is recommended to assign further resources along with appropriate management initiations, modification, and rearrangement of the services providing models to improve the quality of educational services for higher education centers all around the country.
Multi-grained Spatio-Temporal Features Perceived Network for Event-based Lip-Reading

Automatic lip-reading (ALR) aims to recognize words using visual information from the speaker's lip movements. In this work, we introduce a novel type of sensing device, event cameras, for the task of ALR. Event cameras have both technical and application advantages over conventional cameras for the ALR task because they have higher temporal resolution, less redundant visual information, and lower power consumption. To recognize words from the event data, we propose a novel Multi-grained Spatio-Temporal Features Perceived Network (MSTP) to perceive fine-grained spatio-temporal features from microsecond time-resolved event data. Specifically, a multi-branch network architecture is designed, in which different grained spatio-temporal features are learned by operating at different frame rates. The branch operating on the low frame rate can perceive spatial complete but temporal coarse features. While the branch operating on the high frame rate can perceive spatial coarse but temporal refinement features. And a message flow module is devised to integrate the features from different branches, leading to perceiving more discriminative spatio-temporal features. In addition, we present the first event-based lip-reading dataset (DVS-Lip) captured by the event camera. Experimental results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed model compared to the state-of-the-art event-based action recognition models and video-based lip-reading models.