ABSTRACT Accounting standards require firms to distinguish recurring revenues and expenses from nonrecurring gains and losses, which are often referred to as special items. However, not all special items are genuinely nonrecurring. Exploiting the setting of earnings conference calls, we explore whether analysts can identify opportunistic special items,
Jiajia Fu, Yuan Ji, James Potepa
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Marginal Cost of Carbon Sequestration Using Straw-Based Biochar in Great Britain. [PDF]
Tang Y, Wilson P, Cockerill TT.
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ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Foliar application of humic acid improves growth, yield, and nutritional quality of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) genotypes under newly reclaimed soil conditions. [PDF]
Sabra DM, Badr EA, Mohamed MH, Amin GA.
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The oak processionary moth is an invasive pest in the United Kingdom that threatens biodiversity and public health, with rising control costs highlighting the need for sustainable management alternatives Conservation biocontrol using the parasitoid fly Carcelia iliaca is promising but key biological data gaps hinder evidence‐based policy development. A
Kyle Alexander Miller +5 more
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Tobacco straw biochar enhances pak choi growth and quality: Lead/cadmium immobilization and soil fertility improvement. [PDF]
Tian X +8 more
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Abstract Agricultural subsidies can be an effective policy tool to enhance soil organic carbon sequestration. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a second‐best hypothetical policy which subsidizes additional canola hectares optimally for each soil zone in Saskatchewan in an effort to increase soil organic carbon.
Devin A. Serfas
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New insight into the effects of integrated organic-inorganic fertilization on enhancing the rice straw productivity and silage quality. [PDF]
Zhang W, Wang S, Xu N, Ding C, Liu B.
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Sperm Telomere Interactions Are Impaired in Testicular Cancer Before and After Adjuvant Therapy
ABSTRACT Background No study has yet explored telomere length or interaction in sperm nuclei of testicular cancer (TC) patients exposed to chemotherapy or radiotherapy. However, sperm telomere dynamics have emerged as a potential marker in male infertility.
Benoit Berby +10 more
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Enhanced saccharification yields from rice straw by senescence-induced expression of a cytokinin biosynthesis gene in intragenic rice plants. [PDF]
Miura K, Nishimura H, Ito Y.
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