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Problematizing profit and profitability: discussions [PDF]

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2020
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the outcome of an interdisciplinary discussion on the concepts of profit and profitability and various ways in which we could potentially problematize these concepts. It is our hope that a much greater attention or reconsideration of the problematization of profit and related accounting numbers will be ...
Lowe, Alan, Nama, Yesh, Bryer, Alice, Chabrak, Nihel, Dambrin, Claire, Jeacle, Ingrid, Lind, Johnny, Lorino, Philippe, Robson, Keith, Bottausci, Chiara, Spence, Crawford, Carter, Chris, Svetlova, Ekaterina   +12 more
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Trojaning Language Models for Fun and Profit [PDF]

European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new paradigm of building natural language processing (NLP) systems: general-purpose, pre-trained language models (LMs) are composed with simple downstream models and fine-tuned for a variety of NLP tasks ...
Xinyang Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Ting Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Where Truck Drivers Stop – Application of Vehicle Tracking Data for the Identification of Rest Locations and Driving Patterns

Promet (Zagreb), 2021
Road transport plays an essential role in freight transport throughout Europe, therefore, conditions that may hinder seamless operations in this sector require thorough consideration for evidence-based action. Critical amongst these key conditions is how,
Bálint Csendes, Gábor Albert, Norina Szander, András Munkácsy   +3 more
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Fluctuation in the Level of the Caspian Sea and its Consequences [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
While in the early neogene, tectonic and to a lesser extent climatic factors impacted on the sea level, at the present stage climatic, man-made and anthropogenic factors are at the forefront.
Kenzhegaliev Akimgali, Kanbetov Assylbek, Kulbatyrov Dauren, Shakhmanova Aiauzhan, Abilgaziyeva Ainagul   +4 more
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Investigating the effect of CEO 's performance incentives on fraud in financial reporting [PDF]

New Applied Studies in Management, Economics & Accounting, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of CEO 's performance incentives on financial reporting fraud among companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.
Vahid Mahmoodi, Ali Akbar Vahedi, OmidReza Rastegari   +2 more
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Profits and Productivity [PDF]

Management Science, 1999
In this study we consider the linkage between productivity change and profit change. We develop an analytical framework in which profit change between one period and the next is decomposed into three sources: (i) a productivity change effect (which includes a technical change effect and an operating efficiency effect), (ii) an activity effect (which ...
C. A. Knox Lovell, E. Grifell-Tatjé
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Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

Nature Communications, 2020
Land-use transitions can enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers but potential economic-ecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. Here, we present an interdisciplinary study of the environmental, social and economic consequences of land-use ...
I. Grass, C. Kubitza, V. Krishna, M. Corre, O. Musshoff, Peter Pütz, J. Drescher, K. Rembold, Eka Sulpin Ariyanti, A. Barnes, N. Brinkmann, U. Brose, Bernhard Brümmer, D. Buchori, R. Daniel, K. Darras, Heiko Faust, L. Fehrmann, Jonas Hein, N. Hennings, P. Hidayat, D. Hölscher, M. Jochum, A. Knohl, M. Kotowska, Valentyna Krashevska, H. Kreft, C. Leuschner, N. J. S. Lobite, Rawati Panjaitan, A. Polle, A. Potapov, E. Purnama, M. Qaim, A. Röll, S. Scheu, D. Schneider, A. Tjoa, T. Tscharntke, E. Veldkamp, M. Wollni   +40 more
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Trade, productivity and profitability: On profit levels and profit margins [PDF]

The World Economy, 2018
AbstractDo firms engaging in international trade have higher or lower profit margins? It is well established that more productive firms engage in trading activities and as a result have higher profit levels. We use two theoretical models (the Melitz model and the Egger–Kreickemeier model) to clarify the relationship between productivity, trade activity,
Marcel van den Berg, Charles van Marrewijk, Saara Tamminen   +2 more
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For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2020
BACKGROUND: Long-term care (LTC) homes have been the epicentre of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada to date. Previous research shows that for-profit LTC homes deliver inferior care across a variety of outcome and process measures,
N. Stall, A. Jones, K. Brown, P. Rochon, Andrew P. Costa   +4 more
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Methodical Considerations and Resistance Evaluation against Fusarium graminearum and F. culmorum Head Blight in Wheat. Part 3. Susceptibility Window and Resistance Expression

Microorganisms, 2020
Flowering is the most favorable host stage for Fusarium infection in wheat, which is called the susceptibility window (SW). It is not known how long it takes, how it changes in different resistance classes, nor how stable is the plant reaction in the SW.
Andrea György, Beata Tóth, Monika Varga, Akos Mesterhazy   +3 more
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