Paraguay, Bhutan and Nepal: Landlocked but Hydropower Rich Cases of the Lame duck, Flying Goose and Sitting Duck!

Lame Duck Auditors: An Effective Constraint over Management Discretion?

In this paper, we identify instances in which the auditor-client relationship has been terminated (i.e., the auditor resigns or the client dismisses the auditor) but the auditor continues to complete a subsequent quarterly review. Using discretionary accruals and earnings benchmark tests to proxy for the extent of earnings management, we contrast earnings management behavior during these “lame ...

Playing "Duck Duck Goose" with neurons: change detection through connectivity reduction.

Reduced connectivity between sending and receiving neurons (i.e., synaptic depression) may facilitate change detection by reducing responses for recently viewed objects so new objects can be highlighted. In the experiment reported here, we investigated high-level change detection following semantic satiation, which is the loss of meaning following repetition of a word. A computer simulation of ...

Behavior of the Australian Musk Duck and Blue-Billed Duck

Of Shirking, Outliers, and Statistical Artifacts: Lame-Duck Legislators and Support for Impeachment

It has been previously argued that there is substantial evidence that lame-duck Republican members of Congress were less supportive of the impeachment of Bill Clinton than their colleagues who returned in the 106th Congress. I show that this conclusion—based on a marginally-significant interaction term—is actually the result of two statistical artifacts: the choice of estimator used, and the in...

Immunologic cross-reactivity between Muscovy duck parvovirus and goose parvovirus on the basis of epitope prediction

Through bioinformatic prediction, between Muscovy duck parvovirus (MDPV) and goose parvovirus (GPV), there were one epitope AA503-509 (RANEPKE) on non-structural protein and three epitopes AA426-430 (SQDLD), 540-544 (DPYRS), 685-691 (KENSKRW) on structural protein might cross-react with each other. Furthermore, the four epitops were expressed in Escherichia coli. All the four recombinant protei...