Background: The goal of this study was to evaluate current physician ratings websites (PRWs) to determine whichfactors correlated to higher physician scores and evaluate physician perspective of PRWs.Methods: This study evaluated two popular websites, Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, to gather information onpracticing physician members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society database. A surv...

Does having an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy have impact on stakeholders? This research presents a unique model that allows us to measure the economic value of adopting ESG for financial institutions’ stakeholders. Using results questionnaire distributed among institution employees customers, we find that, average, are willing forgo 11% their salary work company has adopted...

An animal model analysis was used to estimate simultaneously additive (sigma 2a) and dominance (sigma 2d) variances for egg production traits within three White Leghorn lines. The data consisted of information for three generations on egg number (EN) produced at 18 to 25 (EN1), 26 to 65 (EN2), and 18 to 65 wk of age (EN3); egg weight (EW) measured at 30 to 35 (EW1) and 40 to 45 wk (EW2); and eg...

We designed a machine learning algorithm that identifies patterns between ESG profiles and financial performances for companies in large investment universe. The consists of regularly updated sets rules map regions into the high-dimensional space features to excess return predictions. final aggregated predictions are transformed scores which allow us design simple strategies screen universe sto...

background : during the past two decades, a great deal of research has been conducted on developing affective norms for words in various languages, showing that there is an urgent need to create such norms in persian language, too. the present study intended to develop a set of 362 persian words rated according to their emotional valence, arousal, imageability, and familiarity so as to prepare ...