We examine the impact of corporate risk-taking on firm-level real earnings management. find that firms with higher engage in Our results are robust to a series robustness tests, including simultaneous least squares approach, firm fixed effect, change analysis, and pseudo difference-in-difference analysis. Additional analyses reveal management is more pronounced among experience prior-year loss ...

I present a model in which a voter cannot learn the consensus opinion of experts. In the model a journalist reports on an unknown state to a voter who makes a policy decision. The journalist’s report consists of the opinion of a single neutral expert and a rejoinder by an opposition party. At some cost, the party may hire a credible expert to comment on its behalf. The more uniform is expert op...

Food borne diseases are considered as the major problems for public health in the world and salmonella serotypes are the most important pathogens causing these types of diseases. Present study was carried out for the isolation of salmonella and determination of their antibiotic sensitivity and serovars from local, industrial and breeder poultry eggs. In this cross-sectional survey, 300 samples ...

BACKGROUND Rapid identification of subject experts for medical topics helps in improving the implementation of discoveries by speeding the time to market drugs and aiding in clinical trial recruitment, etc. Identifying such people who influence opinion through social network analysis is gaining prominence. In this work, we explore how to combine named entity recognition from unstructured news a...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for landmark selection for simultaneous robot localization and mapping based on visual sensors (VSLAM): a biologically motivated attention system finds regions of interest with high information content, and at these regions, Harris corners are detected. This combines the advantages of the ROIs (reducing complexity, enabling good redetactability of region...