In-use stock of a product is the amount of the product in active use. In-use product stocks provide various functions or services on which we rely in our daily work and lives, and the concept of in-use product stock for industrial ecologists is similar to the concept of net manufactured capital stock for economists. This study estimates historical physical in-use stocks of 91 products and 9 pro...

1 esearchers have looked into valuation effects for decades. Their research has usually focused on large capitalization stocks. Not as much research has been done on valuations in small capitalization stocks, as there is a tendency by many to associate small capitalization stocks with a growth style. Any research that has been done on small capitalization stocks was usually confined to the lowe...

Learning To Rank (LTR) techniques aim to learn an effective document ranking function by combining several document features. While the function learned may be uniformly applied to all queries, many studies have shown that different ranking functions favour different queries, and the retrieval performance can be significantly enhanced if an appropriate ranking function is selected for each indi...

stock selection method in stock exchange is an important issue for investors in such markets. investors will gain benefits more than market average provided that they make logical decisions while selecting stocks. the issue of stock selection in markets like tehran stock exchange (that are not so efficient) is requires more attention of the investors as there is not a suitable equilibrium betwe...

BACKGROUND Coarse and fine woody debris are substantial forest ecosystem carbon stocks; however, there is a lack of understanding how these detrital carbon stocks vary across forested landscapes. Because forest woody detritus production and decay rates may partially depend on climatic conditions, the accumulation of coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks in forests may be correlated with cl...

Similarly priced stocks move together. Stocks that undergo splits experience an increase in comovement with low-priced stocks and a decrease in their comovement with highpriced stocks. Price-based comovement is not explained by economic fundamentals, firm size, or changes in liquidity or information diffusion. The shift in comovement following splits is greater for large stocks, high-priced sto...

Ten stocks of Cowdria ruminantium (Ball 3, Breed, Comoro, Germishuys, Kümm, Kwanyanga, Mali, Mara, Nonile and Welgevonden) were compared from a cross-immunity, serological and mouse pathogenicity point of view. They were found to differ in varying degrees. Except for the Ball 3, Comoro and Germishuys stocks that were similar but not identical, there was no pattern in the antigenic diversity of ...