We investigate the relationship between board diversity (relation-oriented diversity, task-oriented and overall diversity) financial statement comparability. find that diverse boards are positively associated with comparability, suggesting improves governance mechanisms by alleviating agency conflicts, leading to higher comparability than homogenous boards. also institutional ownership affects ...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal micro-level data about international migration behavior are notoriously difficult to collect, but data collection efforts have become more frequent in recent years. Comparative research of the patterns and processes of international migration, however, remains quite rare, especially that which compares across regions. OBJECTIVE We highlight the promises and difficultie...

In this study, we demonstrate a negative result from a work on comparable corpora which forces us to address a problem of comparability in both human and machine translation. We state that it is not always defined similarly, and comparable corpora used in contrastive linguistics or human translation analysis cannot always be applied for statistical machine translation (SMT). So, we revise the d...

OBJECTIVES To correct and augment the sample on which a previous study, assessing the applicability of USA WAIS III norms to the UK population, was based. To repeat this study using the modified sample. DESIGN The WAIS III UK was administered to a supplementary sample, which was used to enhance and correct the original sample, allowing a better match to UK population demographics. METHOD WA...

BACKGROUND Activating mutations in the KRAS gene occur frequently in human tumors, including colorectal carcinomas; most mutations occur in codons 12 and 13. Mutations in KRAS have been associated with poor response to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibodies. Therefore, an accurate and readily available analysis of KRAS mutational status is needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE C onfidence in the reliability and comparability of results is a primary requirement for measurements made in both industrial and clinical environments. The increased uptake and wider application of molecular biological methods requires assurance of the accuracy, reliability, and comparability of the techniques. However, there are a number of difficulties. The variety of ava...

Similarities induced by a comparability mapping : meaning and utility in the context of the clustering of comparable texts. In the presence of bilingual comparable corpora it is natural to embed the data in two distinct linguistic representation spaces in which a "computational" notion of similarity is potentially defined. As far as these bilingual data are comparable in the sense of a measure ...