This paper examines the impact of RFID investment announcements on the market value of the firms and explores industry effects of the positive abnormal returns to firms making the announcements. Drawing upon the efficient market theory, market signaling hypothesis, and prior empirical studies, we employ event study methodology to analyze RFID investment announcements over a six-year period from...

The Massage Therapy Foundation presented the second Highlighting Massage Therapy in CIM Research conference, May 13 – 15, 2010. This three-day conference (supported in part by RI3AT005420 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) brought together massage and manual therapy practitioners, educators, CIM researchers, allied health professionals, and others interested in...

The purpose of this department is to provide early announcement of outstanding new results, with some indication of proof. Research announcements are limited to 100 typed lines of 65 spaces each. A limited number of research announcements may be communicated by each member of the Council who is also a member of a Society editorial committee. Manuscripts for research announcements should be sent...

1. Let M be a connected, orientable, triangulated 3-manifold and let A(Zw2(M) be a sub-group which is invariant under the operators in 7Ti(il/f). By a Ti(M)-class in 7r2(.M) we mean the set of elements ±£a, for some a£7r2( if) and every %ÇÎTI(M). The invariance under 7Ti(M) means that, if a £ A , then the entire 7Ti(Af)-class {+£#} is contained in À. A wi(M)-class is represented by a map 5—»M",...

We investigate the relationship between social media, Twitter in particular, and stock market. We provide an in-depth analysis of the Twitter volume and sentiment about the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index, over a period of three years. We focus on Earnings Announcements and show that there is a considerable difference with respect to when the announcements are made: befor...