Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan +4 more
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CDAF: a co-evolutionary decoupled attention framework for explainable weak thermal fault diagnosis of marine diesel engines. [PDF]
Xie Z, Mo C, Jia B.
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The Impact of Economic Growth on Insurance (Growth)
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of economic growth on insurance (growth), focusing on the outflow side of the insurance activity, as captured by benefits (including commissions and expenses). The findings provide evidence that economic growth does exert a positive, statistically significant impact on the benefit side of insurance (growth ...
Nicholas Apergis +2 more
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Associations between food retailer availability and violent crime by neighborhood SES in Chicago, IL: an ecological study. [PDF]
Singleton CR +4 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of green bonds on environmental sustainability for a panel of 15 countries from 2014 to 2024, using the load capacity factor (LCF) as the main proxy for environmental quality, with biocapacity, ecological footprint, and CO2 emissions per capita used as additional environmental indicators.
Kamila Tomczak, Emre Unlu, Mehmet Pinar
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes in Gaza amid armed hostilities in 2025
Abstract Objective This study documents facility‐based maternal, obstetric, and neonatal outcomes and associated conflict‐related exposures and living conditions among pregnancy‐related encounters at Al‐Helou Maternity Hospital in Gaza from late April to early September 2025, with a small number of additional encounters recorded at Al‐Shifa Medical ...
Shaymaa Abuhaiba +16 more
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Irish traveller women and sexual assault: Patterns of engagement with sexual assault treatment units
Abstract Objective To detail the attendance of female Irish Travellers at the national Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) network. Methods Retrospective cross‐sectional study examining the attendance of female patients who identified as members of the Irish Traveller community at the national SATU network between 2017 and 2023 and comparing them with
Daniel Kane +7 more
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Estimation of space-time self-exciting point process models using multi-dimensional Gaussian-type exponent approximation. [PDF]
Nketiah EA, Li C, Yang W, Jing Y, Guo P.
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Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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Dynamic transfer learning with co-occurrence-guided multi-source fusion for urban spatio-temporal crime prediction. [PDF]
Cui C, Zheng Z, Du H, Wang W.
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