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Mathematics, 2023 This paper studies the predictability of implied volatility indices of stocks using financial reports tone disagreement from U.S. firms. For this purpose, we build a novel measure of tone disagreement based on financial report tone synchronization of U.S.
Nicolas S. Magner +3 more
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Fully-automatic inverse tone mapping algorithm based on dynamic mid-level tone mapping [PDF]
, 2020 High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays can show images with higher color contrast levels and peak luminosities than the common Low Dynamic Range (LDR) displays. However, most existing video content is recorded and/or graded in LDR format.
Aelterman, Jan +5 more
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Tone association and F₀ timing in Chichewa
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final ...
Scott Myers
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The effects of skin tone, height, and gender on earnings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Using a theoretical approach grounded in implicit bias and stereotyping theories, this study examines the relationship between observable physical characteristics (skin tone, height, and gender) and earnings, as measured by income.
Srikant Devaraj +2 more
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Linking Financial Performance with CEO Statements: Testing Impression Management Theory
Risks, 2023 The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of financial performance on the tone used in the chief executive officer (CEO) statements of South Africa’s (SA) top 40 JSE-listed companies in the 2021 financial year.
Lonwabo Mlawu +2 more
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Skin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets [PDF]
, 2023 To investigate the well-observed racial disparities in computer vision systems that analyze images of humans, researchers have turned to skin tone as more objective annotation than race metadata for fairness performance evaluations. However, the current state of skin tone annotation procedures is highly varied.
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Theme, Tone, and Atmosphere in the Poetry Anthology of Mata Badik Mata Puisi: Semiotics and Ecocritics Perspectives [PDF]
, 2022 Literature covers many aspects of education. Literature is also a work of personal experience, and one of the popular forms of literature is poetry. In this study, we analyze the elements of poetry construction, particularly thematic elements, tone, and ...
Ma'mur Saadie +2 more
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Tone in UNICEF Press Releases in the Global Settings: A Contrastive Analysis
JPAIR, 2022 Tone sets the readers' mood in which the writers confide their writing styles which can convey much of the cultural background of the community to where they belong.
Nikko Domingo
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Linguistic Discovery, 2011 In this paper, we present an analysis of the tone system of Tiriki, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya and previously undescribed in the linguistic literature.
Mary Paster, Yuni Kim
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Nasals and Low Tone in Grassfields Noun Class Prefixes
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017 As it is well known, noun class prefixes are low tone in Narrow Bantu and classes 1, 3, 4, 6(a), 9, and 10 have nasals (Meeussen 1967). However, just outside Narrow Bantu, noun class prefixes are usually high tone and the nasals are typically missing. A
Pius W. Akumbu, Larry M. Hyman
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