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Reuters reports have become an accepted tool for empirical studies analyzing informationa l asymmetries in exchange rate markets. This paper tests the accuracy of the Reuters announcements for Swiss interventions. The evidence finds that the Reuters announcements are not concentrated just after the first intervention transaction as is assumed in empirical studies. The variance of the prediction...

This study employed content analysis to investigate the attributes of comments on official movie weblogs (blogs), and the possible influences of these attributes on the consumers or companies of the blog. The analysis of 1500 comments on official movie blogs indicated that subjective comments allow the blog companies to recognize consumer attitudes toward movies. Emotional comments positively i...

Bacteriologists sometimes have difficulty in understanding the implications of an Opinion issued by the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Bacteriological Nomenclature. To see what effect they will have on bacteriology in general, it may help to examine two of the Opinions. It is essential to make one point clear: official Opinions affect only the name applied to a particular...

Pharmacopoeia can be issued, there is ample scope for the present work. The remedies are arranged in alphabetical order. The information given includes a brief description of each drug, its source, formula, solubility, action, uses, dosage and the name of the firm who manufacture it. The book rarely speaks with the voice of authority when noting the therapeutie use of the remedies, but simply s...

One of the most basic questions in criminology is how to measure the key outcome variable of offending. The two most common measurement methods are to use official records of arrests/convictions or self-reports of offending. These two methods have different advantages and problems. For example, official records include only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of offending, but the offences are recorded qu...

PURPOSE This study aimed to compare physiological responses and time-motion analysis between official and simulated karate combat. METHODS Ten high-level karatekas participated in this study, which included official and simulated karate combat. RESULTS Karatekas used more upper-limb attack techniques during official combat compared to simulated ones (6±3 vs 3±1; P=0.05, respectively). For o...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively test two simplified peer review processes, estimate the agreement between the simplified and official processes, and compare the costs of peer review. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING A prospective parallel study of Project Grant proposals submitted in 2013 to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia. The official funding outcomes were c...

During infectious disease outbreaks, data collected through health institutions and official reporting structures may not be available for weeks, hindering early epidemiologic assessment. By contrast, data from informal media are typically available in near real-time and could provide earlier estimates of epidemic dynamics. We assessed correlation of volume of cholera-related HealthMap news med...