We find that about 25 percent of Asian firms experienced economically significant exposure effects to the US dollar and 22.5 percent to the Japanese yen for the period January 1993 to January 2003. The overall extent of exposure is not sample dependent; a depreciating (appreciating) Asian currency against foreign currencies has a net negative (positive) impact on stock returns. The extent to wh...

The authors tested the recommendation that adding bells and whistles (in the form of background music and/or sounds) would improve the quality of a multimedia instructional message. In 2 studies, students received an animation and concurrent narration intended to explain the formation of lightning (Experiment 1) or the operation of hydraulic braking systems (Experiment 2). For some students, th...

There are two distinct objectives in monitoring geological carbon sequestration (GCS): Deep monitoring of the reservoir's integrity and plume movement and near-surface monitoring (NSM) to ensure public health and the safety of the environment. However, the minimum detection limits of the current instrumentation for NSM is too high for detecting weak signals that are embedded in the background l...

The coordination of cell proliferation and cell fate determination is critical during development but the mechanisms through which this is accomplished are unclear. We present evidence that the Snail-related transcription factor CES-1 of Caenorhabditis elegans coordinates these processes in a specific cell lineage. CES-1 can cause loss of cell polarity in the NSM neuroblast. By repressing the t...

This paper studies the characteristics and union membership of North American anarchists. Traditionally, anarchism has been a working-class based movement that rejects authority and domination. New social movement (NSM) theory suggests that movements have changed in recent decades to focus less on the working class and economic issues, and more upon social and political concerns. A survey by a ...

In recent years, the use of information resources has dramatically increased, with organisations becoming more and more dependent upon reliable access to this information in order to remain competitive. The explosion in the size and complexity of today’s local and wide area networks, combined with the increasing demands placed upon them for their resources resulted in establishing Network & Sys...

The New Standard Model (NSM)) is the original SM (SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)× classical general relativity), supplemented with neutrino mass, which can be Dirac or Majorana. The focus of this talk will be on the electroweak (SU(2)×U(1)) sector. The NSM is a mathematically consistent field theory of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions and classical gravity that is the correct description of...

In this paper, we have firstly redefined the notion of neutrosophic soft set and its operations in a new way to handle the indeterminate information and inconsistent information which exists commonly in belief systems. Then, we defined neutrosophic soft matrix and their operators which are more functional to make theoretical studies and application in the neutrosophic soft set theory. The matri...