Financial derivatives have been increasingly used by firms to hedge against financial risks. However, it is still not clear what factors at the firm level lead firms’ derivative use and whether can generate performance improvement, especially in context of operating emerging economies. Using unbalanced panel data consisting 2529 listed from China covering an 11-year period 2005 2015, this study...

Indonesia is biologically one of the most diverse areas in world. Nevertheless, its biodiversity underestimated, and this particularly evident for meiobenthic assemblages. Seagrass meadows are known to be ecosystem engineers that can significantly modify habitat heterogeneity and, thereby, increase diversity. Therefore, a study on distribution was conducted two seagrass around Siladen Island (B...

This research examined the effect of marital status and gender on various indicators of psychological adaptation, namely depressive symptoms, loneliness, and life satisfaction. It further explores the role of trait resilience, marital history, and context of death for predicting these outcomes in bereaved individuals. Four hundred eighty widowed individuals aged between 60 and 89 were compared ...

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