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Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain, Ahsan Habib, Dinithi Ranasinghe, Marlissa Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Haul Truck Travel Times in Underground Mines. [PDF]

Min Metall Explor
Simon V, Pellerin R, Gamache M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Buyers' response to third‐party quality certification: Theory and evidence from Ethiopian wheat traders

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract When quality attributes of a product are not directly observable, third‐party certification (TPC) enables buyers to distinguish between quality levels and reward sellers accordingly. We study the adoption of TPC by traders in smallholder‐based agricultural value chains in low‐income countries, where traders aggregate products from many small ...
Gashaw T. Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Erwin Bulte, Jérémy Do Nascimento Miguel, Elisabeth Sadoulet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

LVCA-Net: Lightweight LiDAR Semantic Segmentation for Advanced Sensor-Based Perception in Autonomous Transportation Systems. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Gong Y, Huang Y, Bao L, Wang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Investigation of injury severity level in truck-related crashes at school zones using mixed generalized ordered models. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cho J, Lee S, Park J.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic orientation for indoor navigation system using large language models. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Halama M, Nowak S, Połys K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

Approach and Fork Insertion to Target Pallet Based on Image Measurement Method. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Kita N, Kato T.
europepmc   +1 more source