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Introduction to the assessment of the quality of non-financial reports of banks in the context of WIG-ESG index membership

Journal of Economics and Management
Aim/purpose – This article aims to conduct a preliminary assessment of the quality of non-financial reports of banks considering their membership in the WIG-ESG index on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).
Chamera Klaudia Olga
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Measures for enhancing auditor independence: Perceptions of spanish non-professional investors and auditors

European Research on Management and Business Economics
Auditors fulfill a crucial societal role by increasing the credibility of financial reports, which requires that appropriate audit quality be provided and auditors are factually independent and perceived as such.
Reiner Quick, Daniel Sánchez Toledano, Joaquín Sánchez Toledano   +2 more
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Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Using Longitudinal and Heterogeneous Magnetic Resonance Imaging

, 2018
Recent evidence has shown that structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective tool for Alzheimer's disease (AD) prediction and diagnosis. While traditional MRI-based diagnosis uses images acquired at a single time point, a longitudinal study
Dai, Xiaowu, Initiative, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging   +1 more
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Affine Maps of the Polarization Vector for Quantum Systems of Arbitrary Dimension

, 2010
The operator-sum decomposition (OS) of a mapping from one density matrix to another has many applications in quantum information science. To this mapping there corresponds an affine map which provides a geometric description of the density matrix in ...
Bishop, C. Allen, Byrd, Mark S., Ou, Yong-Cheng   +2 more
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Genetic origins and migration patterns of Xinjiang Mongolian group revealed through Y-chromosome analysis

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionThe Xinjiang Mongolians, located along the Silk Road, migrated westward from Northeast Asia in the 13th and 14th centuries. Despite its significance, genetic studies on Xinjiang Mongolians have been limited compared to other Mongolian ...
Yifan Wang, Yifan Wang, Lei Xie, Ke Wang, Zixi Jiang, Yuhang Feng, Yuhang Feng, Yao Yu, Yao Yu, Xin Chang, Hailiang Meng, Yiran Xu, Yishan Wu, Meisen Shi, Xiaoxia Wang, Shaoqing Wen, Shaoqing Wen, Shaoqing Wen, Shaoqing Wen   +18 more
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Evaluation of techniques to improve the legibility of bilingual Variable Message Signs [PDF]

, 2004
This study evaluated a number of techniques that could be employed to reduce the amount of time drivers spend searching and reading bilingual signs.
Jamson, S.L.
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How government accounting supervision affects corporate financialization? Evidence from random inspections by China's ministry of finance

International Review of Economics & Finance
Government regulatory interventions in the external business environment profoundly shapes firms' economic behavior and operating strategic choices.
Mengke Fan, Dan Chen, Yusen Lei
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Institutional capacity in the accounting reform process in Spanish local governments

Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review, 2018
In 2015, Spanish local governments began to apply a new accounting standard. The success achieved in its implementation is related with stimuli from outside the organization and with the institutional capacity – administrative and political – developed ...
Silvia Fresneda Fuentes, Julián Hernández Borreguero   +1 more
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Can IFRS adoption mitigate earnings management in an emerging market?

Heliyon
Research on the impact of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) mandate on the quality of financial reporting produced mixed findings.
Abdelnaser M. Mohamed Amer, Asil Azimli, Muri Wole Adedokun   +2 more
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Coming: a Tool for Mining Change Pattern Instances from Git Commits

, 2018
Software repositories such as Git have become a relevant source of information for software engineer researcher. For instance, the detection of Commits that fulfill a given criterion (e.g., bugfixing commits) is one of the most frequent tasks done to ...
Martinez, Matias, Monperrus, Martin
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