This study shows that the recent trajectory of a firm’s profits predicts future profitability and stock returns. The predictive information contained in the trend of profitability is not subsumed by the level of profitability, earnings momentum, or other well-known determinants of stock returns. The profit trend also predicts the earnings surprise one quarter later, and analyst forecast errors ...

the impact of information & communication technology to increase financial transactions in different fields shows the positive developments of this industry in iran. but, is the ict industry also can be effective in the economic capital of the country? it occurs when the ict industry has a good performance in the capital markets. in this study, the ict industry in the tehran stock exchange was ...

background it is estimated that survival of children with perinatally transmitted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in brazil is around 60 months, and an upward trend has been shown over recent years. the reduction in mortality rates in brazilian children is mainly attributed to the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy. objectives the aim of this study was to characterize the epidemi...

A trend, which is a general tendency in the way a situation is changing or developing, is based on temporal statistical data, and can be obtained by synthetically summarizing it. A system that can properly answer questions on interesting trends must help users to understand and review a huge amount of information. MuST, a workshop on multimodal summarization for trend information, was designed ...

Background and aims: One of the most common approach to understanding spatial and temporal trends of event data is to break it up into a series of time snapshots. Therefore space-time cube method applied in order to portray the likely trend in occurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases. Methods: In this study, information of all patients with pul...

Background and Aim: The process of identifying Covid 19 cases over time (the trend) can provide valuable information about the coverage of diagnostic and screening programs over time. This study aimed to investigate the outpatient trend of Covid-19 in selected comprehensive health service centers of Tehran University of Meical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a descripti...

The automatic extraction of trend information from text documents such as newspaper articles would be useful for exploring and examining trends. To enable this, we used data sets provided by a workshop on multimodal summarization for trend information (the MuST Workshop) to construct an automatic trend exploration system. This system first extracts units, temporals, and item expressions from ne...

The automatic extraction of trend information from text documents such as newspaper articles would be useful for exploring and examining trends. To enable this, we used data sets provided by a workshop on multimodal summarization for trend information (the MuST Workshop) to construct an automatic trend exploration system. This system first extracts units, temporals, and item expressions from ne...