We thank the following individuals for helpful advice and Symbiodinium isolates; Dr. Scott Santos, Auburn University; Dr. Todd LaJeunesse, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Mark Warner, University of Delaware; Dr. Virginia Weis and Angela Poole, Oregon State University; and Dr. Robert Trench (ret), UC Santa Barbara. Dinoflagellate cultures were also purchased from the Provasoli-Guillard Nation...

Diffusion of responsibility across agents has been proposed to underlie decreased helping and increased aggression in group behaviour. However, few studies have directly investigated effects of the presence of other people on how we experience the consequences of our actions. This EEG study investigated whether diffusion of responsibility simply reflects a post-hoc self-serving bias, or rather ...

This paper examines the role of management accounting systems (MASs) in the valuation of highgrowth start-up companies. Start-up companies face acute problems of information asymmetry and agency conflicts between founder-manager and external investors that can lead to significant financing frictions and valuation distortions. We postulate that adoption of MASs has a positive impact on firm valu...

This paper considers a hypothetical government-run credit rating agency with a “fixed compensation” scheme. Taking as granted the fact that investors ascribe higher value for highly rated assets, the model attempts to see whether government intervention can lead to a more socially desirable solution. The model features a free rating agent who can either choose to work for the government agency ...

abstract background: the prevalence of self‑neglect among the elderly is expected to rise with a rapid increase in the growth of the older population. however, self‑neglect in the elderly and the factors related to it are not fully understood due to the limited research in the area, lack of consensus in the definition of the concept, and limited instrumentation. the purpose of this study was to...

In this study, we aimed to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and costs of pediatric disease in American children. We examined four categories of illness: lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and neurobehavioral disorders. To estimate the proportion of each attributable to toxins in the environment, we used an environmentally attributable f...

holding cash is a matter of managerial discretion. theaim of this paper is to contrast the effect of accruals quality on cashholding for a sample of 120 firms listed in the tehran stock exchangeduring 2001-2011.the results show that firms with good accruals quality hold lower cashlevels than firms with poor accruals quality. this result conform thefindings of teruel & solano (2009), which state...

Lead pollution is a substantial problem in developing countries such as India. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has defined an elevated blood lead level in children as > or = 10 microg/dl, on the basis of neurologic toxicity. The US Environmental Protection Agency suggests a threshold lead level of 20-40 microg/dl for risk of childhood anemia, but there is little information re...

The integrated exposure uptake biokinetic (IEUBK) model, recommended for use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at residential Superfund sites to predict potential risks to children from lead exposure and to establish lead remediation levels, requires an interindividual geometric standard deviation (GSDi) as an essential input parameter. The GSDi quantifies the variability of blood lea...