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Lender‐Affiliated Analysts and Syndicated Loans

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loans to borrowers covered by affiliated analysts have lower spreads. This effect is driven mostly by affiliated analysts sharing information with, rather than demanding information from, lending arms. Exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in brokerage affiliations, we find that the results are likely to be causal.
Yongqiang Chu, Tao Ma, Cong (Roman) Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker, Axel Schlindwein, Martin C. Arostegui, Ingrid M. Bruvold, Joel V. Wernström, Montserrat Martin‐Armas, David W. Sims, Nicolas Straube, Andreas Altenburger, Claudia Junge   +9 more
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Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy of the First Autogenous Aeromonas hydrophila Vaccine for Piaractus brachypomus

Journal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aeromonas hydrophila is a major zoonotic bacterial pathogen responsible for haemorrhagic septicemia, substantial economic losses in aquaculture and increasing antimicrobial resistance among field isolates. It is also one of the main bacterial species associated with mortality outbreaks in pirapitinga, Piaractus brachypomus, culture in the ...
Layana Aparecida Batista Pereira, Juliana do Nascimento Ferreira, Laine Patricia Costa dos Santos, Larissa Andréia Ferreira Sampaio, Igor Bartolomeu Alves de Barros, Elizabeth Gusmão Affonso, Jefferson Yunis‐Aguinaga, Gustavo da Silva Claudiano   +7 more
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Strategic adjustment of capital structure: Evidence from firms newly added to the S&P 500 index

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the capital structure of firms that are newly added to the S&P 500 index. The leverage ratio gradually decreases during the two‐year pre‐addition period and then increases during the two‐year post‐addition period, resulting in a U‐shaped trend.
Eunpyo Hong, Min Hwang, Jiyoon Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich, Diana Forker, Lilia Kurnosova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterisation of Allergen Profiles in Commercial Egg Products to Inform Oral Immunotherapy Strategies in Egg Allergy

Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.
Elecia B. Johnston, Shaymaviswanathan Karnaneedi, Eva Birosova, Paxton Loke, Adriana Chebar Lozinsky, Lydia Su‐Yin Wong, Agnes Sze‐Yin Leung, Elizabeth Huiwen Tham, Lynette Pei‐Chi Shek, Mimi L. K. Tang, Andreas L. Lopata   +10 more
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes, Scott Crossley, Wesley Morris, Joon Suh Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
wiley   +1 more source

The lysophosphatidylcholine-HIF-1α axis enhances apolipoprotein E sialylation and promotes electronegative LDL accumulation. [PDF]

iScience
Chan HC, Chan HC, Wang LF, Chan ML, Huang WC, Bender D, Ko YM, Yu ML, Ke GM, Chou MC, Liu CK, Ke LY.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
wiley   +1 more source