... interviewed the director and chief accountant of the company on the CSR ofthe company. The question is to play a close look at the financial situation ofthe company and the impact of CSR activities ... family business. Therefore, managers must understand the importance of reporting and the implementation of CSR with business operations ofthe company. And then, the following hypothesis is developed: ... view, the shareholders or stockholders are the owners ofthe company, and the firm only addresses the needs and wishes of its owners. However, stakeholder theory argues that there are other...
... purchasers ofthe fund’s units, in proportion to their investments, would be the owner of a part ofthe fund. In other words, each unit represents the investors’ ownership ofthe fund’s assets and the ... Along the lines ofthe previous researches, they reported the negative influence of fund size on manager performance. While digging deeper towards the origin of these diseconomies of scale, the ... study of their performances, this research used some ofthe measures including turnover, liquidity, size and diversification of portfolios. The results ofthe first hypothesis showed that the...
... considering the number of tuplesthat are inserted and the cost of inserting a single tuple. The cost of inserting a tuple into one of the buckets of a hash table is the same as the cost of inserting a ... based on the selectivity ofthe predicate.OrefnumNumber of referenced objects.WnumNumber of windows of input.WsizeSize of a window of input (number of elements).HsizeSize ofthe hash ... attribute in the list1.2.2 add attribute into the replica ofthe tupleCPU:(i) replicate tuples (line 1.1);(ii) add each ofthe attributes in the list of attributes into the replicas ofthe tuples...
... when there is an unusual trade-off between the cost of a Type I error and the cost of a Type II error. Nevertheless, the proposed baseline does seem to provide a usable rough estimate ofthe ... take advantage ofthe prior probabilities of the senses, so they would be at a disadvantage relative to the baseline if one ofthe senses had a very high prior, as is the case for the test word ... sample of 97 words; 67 of them were unambiguous and therefore had a baseline performanceof 100%) 0 The remaining thirty words are listed along with the number of senses and baseline performance: ...
... compared to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution. The quality ofthe approximation depends on the values ofthe parameters NY,, the number of rated entities with the same rating ... CHECKING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEVIATIONS OF THE REALISED DEFAULT RATE FROM THE FORECAST PROBABILITY OF DEFAULTIn Chart 1 theperformanceofthe Wald interval is shown for several values of ... numbers of default, weighted by the inverses ofthe theoretical variances ofthe number of defaults. HSLSnp dnp pii iii iik=−()−()=∑211 (15)11 The values that were chosen for the...
... school performance This section describes the analyses RAND conducted with the aim of identifying the school’s contribution to student achievement, thereby measuring theperformanceofthe school. ... achieving proficiency on the PSSA. It therefore has an ASA of 80. The school with the lowest level of student achievement across all tests has an average of 13% of its students achieving proficiency ... an SPI rating of four are among the best in Pittsburgh at raising the achievement ofthe students they enroll. Schools that earn an SPI rating of one are not demonstrating that they are effectively...
... cases where the query is composed of two or more sentences, wecompute the similarity between the document sen-tence (s) and each ofthe query-sentences (qi) thenwe take the average ofthe scores.3 ... represents the occurrence fre-quency (TF*IDF) of a word. However, the major limitation ofthe TF*IDF approach isthat it only retains the frequency ofthe wordsand does not take into account the sequence,syntactic ... represents the occurrencefrequency (TF*IDF) of a word. However, the majorlimitation ofthe TF*IDF approach is that it only re-tains the frequency ofthe words and does not takeinto account the sequence,...
... return of government bonds and the one-month risk-free rate ofthe previous month. The proxy ofthe default risk is the difference between the return of corporate bonds and the return of maturity-matched ... default risk. The proxy for the interest rate risk is the differ-ence between the monthly return of government bonds and the one-month risk-free rate ofthe previous month. The proxy ofthe default ... due to the high degree of excess kurtosis in the majority of 24 Figure 2: Results ofthe principal component analysis (PCA) The proxy for the interest rate risk is the difference between the...
... (underperformance) of SRI funds. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary for future studies to report on the treatment ofthe survivorship bias in detail. On the other hand, the evidence of ... as they have the largest share ofthe global SRI market (Eurosif, 2010). The results of primary studies are sensitive to the time period of an effect as well but based on the results ofthe ... empirical studies of this extensive body of literature corroborate the ‘no-effect-hypothesis’ but there is some evidence for the other two hypotheses as well. The reasons for the contradictory...
... funds in the period 1994-2003 using the same measure of performance. Neither of these studies documents statistically significant differences in performance. Both the approach and the results of our ... companies, out of a sample of thousands of US companies. Therefore, at least part of our sample of SRI mutual funds mayface only minor restrictions on their investment policies. The fraction of “sin” ... support for the idea that fund managers often choose to restrict their investmentuniverse. Theperformance premium of SRI funds could, thus, stem from the gains fromspecialization induced by their...
... that • the larger the country • the lower the population density • the lower the degree of urbanisation • the lower the mail volume per head • the higher the requirements on the postal network ... degree of urbanisation or mail volume per head obviously have an impact on theperformanceoftheperformanceofthe postal services with regard to mail delivery. It can be assumed that • the ... survey on the quality of services59 giving a picture of consumers’ views on the quality of services of general economic interest they use. Then, the main findings of a recent “in-depth” qualitative...
... area. The participants placed themselves in the middle of a pre-marked 1.5 m2area. They were then instructed to rotate the chair 180°, trying to ke ep all parts ofthe wheelchairwithin the ... one side of the PW placed adjacent to a wall. They then executed a ser-ies of maneuvers in an attempt to place the oppositeside ofthe PW to the opposite wall (see Figure 1D-E).As in the 180° ... closing the door behindthem. This task had two variations; the first involvedinitially pushing the door open, moving through the doorway and pushing the door closed on the other side. The second...