This study explores a system to retrieve and classify the reasons for late mandatory SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filings. From the source documents, the system identifies the reasons for the late filing and classifies them into one or more of seven categories. The system can be used by potential investors who have to track a large number of filings concentrated within a day or two....

This study investigated levels of burnout in the general population irrespective of occupation and relations between burnout and psychosocial work factors. A cross-sectional survey featuring sleep problems, psychological distress, burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey), and psychosocial factors at work, was mailed to a random sample of 3,000 participants, aged 20-60. Response rate w...

Abstract In this paper we introduce an extended version of the Vedic Treebank ( vtb , Hellwig et al. 2020) which comes along with revisited and annotation guidelines. order to assess quality our annotations as well usability limits guidelines performed inter-annotator agreement test. The results show that between annotators is hampered by various factors, most prominently insufficient understan...

Natural conversations contain expressions that can be deciphered through their contextual use. These are often flexible, allowing them to function beyond literal meaning. Thus, pragmatics is functional in explaining significance speakers' utterances, mainly when expressing affirmation and disapproval. This study investigates the pragmatic functions of agreeing disagreeing formulaic Cebuano lang...

After groups of subjects judged the relative success of two students, an exchange of evaluations was arranged. Half of the subjects were led to believe that they would get an evaluation from a group member who had the same information about the students, half, that the group member had different information. Subjects were also led to believe either that the group member was similar or dissimila...

Belief in romantic destiny holds that potential relationship partners are either meant for each other or they are not. As hypothesized, a longitudinal study of romantic relationships revealed that the relation between initial satisfaction and relationship longevity was stronger for those who believe in romantic destiny. In addition, belief in destiny was associated with avoidance coping strateg...

This study investigated deaf adolescents' implicit and explicit awareness of subject-verb number agreement. In Experiment 1, a self-paced reading task, the reading times of deaf and hearing children (matched for reading and chronological age, mean=8;3 and 13;10 years) increased when sentences contained disagreeing subject-verb number markers. However, deaf adolescents' slowing occurred later in...

Emerging wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are known for their fast and low cost deployment. Conventional mesh deployment focuses on the outdoor environment, which regards the WMNs as backbone networks. This study deploys and measures indoor IEEE 802.11s mesh networks to extend WLAN capabilities with extensive experiment configurations. The testbed is constructed in a laboratory and a field crossin...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of shift work and chronotype on the quality of life of nursing staff at a university hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is an analytical and cross-sectional study, developed with a sample of 101 nursing professionals working in clinical and surgical units for adult inpatients. Chronotype and quality of life were eval...