OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the financial characteristics and level of satisfaction of physicians practicing in Lebanon. METHODS We conducted an anonymous, interviewer-administered phone survey of physicians practicing medicine in Lebanon. We conducted both descriptive and regression analyses. RESULTS Of 778 invited physicians, 546 participated in the survey (70% r...

This paper divulges the long term relationship among earning, investment and dividends from 2000 to 2011. Empirical evidence was collected to explore the Modigliani and miller theory of dividend irrelevance. Data was collected from all the sectors but it was ensured that firms did not have negative data of earnings as it is earnings which are either transformed into investment or dividends. Mul...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of corporate governance characteristics in reducing earnings management among the listed firms of Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange, China. We took abnormal working capital accruals as a proxy for earning management. In this paper, we used modified Jones Model in order to calculate discretionary accruals (DAC). The sample comprises o...

This study takes a closer look at the relationship between money demand and the life-cycle motive using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Findings indicate that the life-cycle motive exerts a direct impact on household demand for interest-earning monetary assets, but not on non-interest-earning checking deposits. The strength of the relationship, however, varies am...

background: according to quality transformation of services during the time, the quality requirements and standards also change and recognition of these requirements and transformation process can assist in recognizing the quality dimensions of services. the aim of this research was to explain the transformation process, requirements and quality dimensions of services in hospitals.   methods: t...

objective: menopause is a natural part of women´s life. according to our country's age pyramid that is toward the aging and elderly, every year large number of women inter this period. during this period, due to the wide fluctuations of the hormones, it is caused unpleasant physical, psychological and sexual symptoms that affect women's quality of life negatively. because of the side effects of...

This project involves discovering how the company’s stock performs in after-hours on the release day of its quarterly financial report and the day after. Project aims to use a variety of machine learning models to make predictions regarding the stock price movements based on the factors that reflect and affect investor reactions, namely, media coverage of financial news, companys’ quarterly fin...

This tutorial focuses on dynamic pricing under model uncertainty: a class of problems whose first instance dates back at least 40 years, is relatively simple in structure, is widely considered fundamental, and has numerous manifestations across multiple application domains and academic disciplines. While significant progress has been made throughout the last several decades, including a flurry ...