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Can individual auditors' career advancements predict audit partner quality?

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This mixed‐methods study investigates whether individual auditors' career advancements to more prestigious audit firms can predict their audit quality. Using hand‐collected data on more than 2,000 audit partners from professional networking website profiles, I identify audit partners with advancements from less to more prestigious audit firms ...
Joseph A. Micale
wiley   +1 more source

Sketching with Chinese Calligraphy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sketches and hand drawn paper prototypes have become popular tools – they are quick to make, inexpensive and cannot be mistaken for the final product. When little effort is needed to draw, it is easier to discard drawings and ideas and replace them with ...
Jian, Hua-Li, Sandnes, Frode Eika
core   +2 more sources

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

CALLIGRAPHIC TRADITIONS IN CULTURE AND EEUCATION OF MODERN CHINA

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2019
Modern processes among Chinese citizens in the field of studying history of their culture convincingly demonstrate an increasing consistent interest in such an important part of it as writing and calligraphy traditions.
E. M. Kulanina
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille.
Gray, Richard J. II
core   +1 more source

Sectoral Adaptation and Strategic Resilience: The Impact of Sanctions on Russian Corporate Performance (2014–2021)

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the sectoral impact of Western sanctions on Russian corporate performance from 2014 to 2021 using a panel of listed nonfinancial firms. Applying continuous‐time heterogeneous treatment models and difference‐in‐differences estimators, we document persistent divergence across sectors: The energy sector exhibits sustained ...
Eugene Nivorozhkin
wiley   +1 more source

The Poetic Dimension of Everyday Aesthetic Appreciation. Perspectives from East-Asian Cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
As Yuriko Saito, one of the main exponents of everyday aesthetics holds, East-Asian cultures have long established a deep link between artistic practices and everyday life, transforming apparently mundane practices such as having a cup o ftea with cakes ...
Fernández-Gómez, María Rosa
core  

Explicitly Closing and Quantifying Feedback Loops in Aquatic Environments Should Be a Priority

open access: yes
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, EarlyView.
Richard LaBrie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Intangible Investment in Predicting Stock Returns: Six Decades of Evidence

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an intangible intensity factor that is orthogonal to the Fama–French factors, we compare the role of intangible investment in predicting stock returns over the periods 1963–1992 and 1993–2022. For 1963–1992, intangible investment is weak in predicting stock returns, but for 1993–2022, the predictive power of intangible investment becomes
Lin Li
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic calligraphy in contemporary art of Malaysia / Nor Azlin Hamidon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This research entitled Islamic Calligraphy in Contemporary Art of Malaysia contribute to the most neglected area in the development of the history of art of Malaysia. The combination of three different traditions – Islam, Malay and Western traditions
Hamidon, Nor Azlin
core  

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