Purpose This study investigates the association between managerial ability and earnings quality in firms listed on Iraq Stock Exchange how emergence of Islamic State Syria (ISIS) influences association. Design/methodology/approach uses a sample over period 2012–2018. Managerial is quantified using data envelopment analysis, measured by restatement, persistence, accruals response coefficient. Pa...

(31)P MRS provides a unique non-invasive window into myocardial energy homeostasis. Mouse models of cardiac disease are widely used in preclinical studies, but the application of (31)P MRS in the in vivo mouse heart has been limited. The small-sized, fast-beating mouse heart imposes challenges regarding localized signal acquisition devoid of contamination with signal originating from surroundin...

Previous studies have shown that a subset of neurons in the rat anterodorsal thalamus discharge as a function of the animal's head direction (HD) in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's location and behavior. These cells have consistent firing properties across a wide range of conditions and cell discharge appears highly regular when listened to through a loudspeaker. In contrast, ...

Three modified 20-mer antisense oligonucleotides targeted to human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 mRNA were characterized for their presystemic stability and oral bioavailability compared with a first-generation phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide (PS ODN), ISIS 2302. The three modified oligonucleotides contained 2'-O-(2-methoxyethyl) (2'-O-MOE) ribose sugar modifications on a portion, or ...

22 Incidence of double discharges (DDs, >100Hz) and short interspike intervals (ISIs, >50Hz 23 <100Hz) is reported to vary widely among different muscles and tasks, with a higher incidence 24 in motor unit (MU) trains of fast muscles and for the production of fast contractions in humans. 25 However, it is unclear whether human muscles with a large composition of slower motor units 26 exhibit DD...

Antoine Roueff, Jérôme I. Mars and Jocelyn Chanussot, Senior Member, IEEE contact information : [email protected] , Institut Fresnel, Groupe Physique et Traitement de l’Image DU Saint Jérôme 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France Tel : +33 (0)4 91 28 80 48, Fax : +33 (0)4 91 28 82 01 [email protected], Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS) BP 46 38402 Saint Martin d’Hères Cédex Fr...

R. Doubble, S. M. Hayden, ∗ Pengcheng Dai, 3 H. A. Mook, J. R. Thompson, 3 and C. D. Frost H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Ave., Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, UK ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilt...

As images of beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff are seared into our consciousness, we would do well to honor their memories by recalling that they saw it as their mission to alert the world to the horrors committed by the fanatical Islamist terrorist group ISIS in Syria and Iraq: Children forced to view crucifixions and beheadings, women bartered, sold and raped, priso...