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... project financing, issue of longterm securities, financing of mergers, buyouts and so on One of the many objectives of corporate financial manager is to ensure the lower cost of capital and thus ... 1991, Theory of capital structure and technical change, Journal of Finance, Vol 46, 1991, p 297-355 Han-Suck Song, 2005, Capital Structure Determinants: An Empirical Study of Swedish Companies, Electronic ... equity and debt: An empirical study Journal of Finance, 1982, vol.37, p 121-144 Modigliani, F., and M.H Miller, 1958, The cost of capital, corporate finance and the theory of investment, American...

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... List of Vietnamese Banks used in current study No Code Name of Bank Agribank Agriculture and Rural Development Bank ABBank An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank ACB Asia Commercial Bank VCB Bank ... accounting financial performance measure It shows profitability of bank Return on equity is an important measure of the profitability of a company Higher values are generally favorable meaning that ... Agrawal A and C.Knoeber (1996),"Firm performance and mechanisms to control agency problems between managers and shareholders", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,pp 377-397 [4] Angel...

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... metric, and a reference ranking produced by human judges An optimal similarity metric should produce the same ranking as human judges In our case, acquiring human judgments about the quality of the ... similarity metric that cannot distinguish manual and automatic reports cannot be a good metric Then, all we need is an estimation of how well a similarity metric separates manual and automatic reports ... On the other hand, all baselines improve, and some of them (SentenceSim precision and perplexity) give better results than both ROUGE and NICOS Of course, no reliable conclusion can be obtained...

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... conducted an empirical study of Chinese chunking We compared the performance of four models, SVMs, CRFs, MBL, and TBL 103 Heng Li, Jonathan J Webster, Chunyu Kit, and Tianshun Yao 2003a Transductive ... Huang, and Anthony Kroch 2000 The bracketing guidelines for the penn chinese treebank Technical report, University of Pennsylvania Hongqiao Li, Changning Huang, Jianfeng Gao, and Xiaozhong Fan ... chunking with another type of spec In The Third SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing Yuqi Zhang and Qiang Zhou 2002 Chinese basephrases chunking In Proceedings of The First SIGHAN Workshop...

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... value tree and a set of component value functions, one for each primitive attribute of the entity A value tree is a decomposition of the value of an entity into a hierarchy of aspects of the entity2, ... subject, for k ranging from to –1 The constant k In the definition of s-notably-compelling?, the constant k determines the lower bound of scompellingness for an objective to be included in an argument ... Towards an Information Visualization Workspace: Combining Multiple Means of Expression Human-Computer Interaction Journal Young, M R “Using Grice's Maxim of Quantity to Select the Content of Plan...

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... FF3, and IE7 participants answered the same way 4.2.4 Impact of Reading and Understanding In each of the first two sections of the exit survey we asked participants if they “read the text of the ... certca.html [6] S Egelman, L F Cranor, and J Hong You’ve been warned: an empirical study of the effectiveness of web browser phishing warnings In Proceeding of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in ... else’s answers In order to qualify responanalysis of our results in terms of warning compredents as experts, we asked them a series of five queshension and risk perceptions, the role of context, and...

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... between a kanji character and a hiragana character Of course, there are quite a few exceptions to this heuristics For example, some proper nouns are written in mixed hiragana, kanji and katakana The ... magazines, and textbooks It contains 208,000 sentences We selected randomly 20,000 sentences for training and Hiragana and katakana are phonetic characters which represent Japanese syllables Katakana ... smaller one because the nal accuracy of the former is higher than that of the latter The variance ắ of a set of selected examples is dened ĩ Table 1: Variances of Selected Examples 16.87 16.66 Iteration...

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... categories and subcategories on findings from an analysis of those data, and then tested them through an analysis of the authentic data Having established addition categories, I answered the third and ... number of words in a speaker’s original utterance to the number of words in the interpreter’s translation of his utterance In other words, if there seems to be a discrepancy between the length of ... principle of orality, and it emphasizes the crucial role of spoken discourse and therefore the importance of obtaining proper statements and witness testimonies The setting of the investigation,...

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... Abstract An Empirical Study of Audit Quality in China From the Perspectives of Regulators and the Accounting Profession by Wong Man Kong, Raymond Doctor of Philosophy The effective functioning of securities ... An Empirical Study of Audit Quality in China From the Perspectives of Regulators and the Accounting Profession Certificate of Originality Abstract Acknowledgements i Table of Contents List of ... Johnson and Lys (1990) show that the determinants of a change of auditor are related to changes in the operations and activities of client firms over time Firms that have a poor operating performance...

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... litigation, and the intangible asset value of the Standard and Poor’s 500 list of Corporations This study demonstrated a significantly positive effect of these two environmental performances on ... measures of financial performance, e.g profitability For this assessment, this study analyzes the effect of air pollution control using a panel of Czech firms for the years 1996-1998 The analytical ... environmental performance is a potential source for competitive advantage and following this are improvements in productivity, increased profitability and lower cost of compliance Theoretical and empirical...

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... discrepancy Hence, the determinant variable was still able to explain the variance of purchase intent of luxury goods Table 4.8 ANOVA of simple regression analysis Sum of Model df Squares Mean Square ... quality and produced with limited quantities, such as Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton handbags, Banana shirts, Gianni Versaci suits, and Lexus cars According to Wiedmann et al (2007), the concept of ... that brands symbolize their status and wealth and therefore are hunting for luxurious and famous brand-name products (Liao & Wang, 2009) In practice, Zhang and Kim (2013) point out that brand consciousness...

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... Gupta and Pawan Pandey, for helping me decide between an enticing industry job offer and a PhD Those who assisted me in the data gathering and entering process – Sumeet Nagdev, Shivajee Dewangan, ... detailed review of the concept of information Information Need ‘consists of the process of perceiving a difference between an ideal state of knowledge and the actual state of knowledge’ (van de Wijngaert, ... understanding of those needs we are able better to understand what meaning information has in the everyday life of people; and by all of the foregoing we should have a better understanding of the...

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... refers to any translation of a request into “non-natural” language For library, this means locating the call number of the item; for computer-based information, this means use of a command language ... a function of a series of physical and cognitive actions undertaken in pursuit of a particular goal by an actor (e.g., Vakkari, 2003) Two characteristics of the task as determinants of information ... elements of task are predetermined; while difficult or complex task refers to new and genuine decision task in which the paths of task performance and information needed cannot be determined in advance...

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... AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DATA MODEL AND QUERY LANGUAGE ON NOVICE USER QUERY PERFORMANCE XIANG LIAN (B.Mgt Wuhan University,China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ... opportunity to thank Dr Ooi Beng Chin and Dr Huang Zhiyong for all their guidance and caring in both my study and personal life during my stay in the school of computing of NUS My special thanks go to ... an experiment on the effect of data model and query languages on query performance (Chan et al., 1999), as well as the development of new conceptual query languages (Owei and Navathe, 2001) and...

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... Regression of No of Auctions) 54 Table 5-5 : Results of Model (Poisson Regression of No of Bids) 56 Table 5-6 : Results of Model (Poisson Regression of No of Auctions) 57 Table 5-7 : Results of ... Burnham et al., 2003) Hannan and Freeman (1984) explain the linkage of structural inertia and organization change using switching costs Their results suggest that even under unpleasant situation customers ... bidding fees and item sales, which is substantially a linear function of number of cumulative bids And only when there are sufficient number of bidders can they generate sufficient number of cumulative...

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... Assignment and Transfer of the Right to the Use of the State-owned Land in the Urban Areas and the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Granting and Transferring the Right to the Use of State-Owned land ... government bodies, including party and executive leaders, land and housing officials, urban planning officials, and even banking and judicial officials Vertically, land related corruption is usually ... merits of tender, auction and quotation modes as a solution to abusive and corrupt land use.11 For instance, an article by Zhang Yanhua, deputy general director of the Department of Land and Resources...

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... game Ease of use also was found to be a significant determinant of satisfaction in TCA The study tries to find empirical support for the assurance dimension of SERVQUAL as determinant in online ... practical and a good forecaster for service quality measurement (Sureshchandar, Rajendran, & Anantharaman, 2002) However, no model can be said to be faultless and SERVQUAL model is not an exemption and ... GAME SERVICE SATISFACTION AND PREFERENCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF VIETNAMESE ONLINE GAMING INDUSTRY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION...

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... perakaunan kos dalam firma berasaskan tani di Libya yang kurang mendapat perhatian berbanding dengan sektor perkilangan Objektif utama kajianini adalah untuk meneliti dan memahami amalan semasa ... kepentingan maklumat kos dan kewajipan mematuhi undangundang adalah positif dan signifikan dalam mempengaruhi amalan sistem perakaunan kos bagi firma berasaskan tani di Libya Tahap persaingan dan kepelbagaian ... kepelbagaian produk didapati tidak signifikan Hasil dapatan kajianini dijangka akan memberikan implikasi positif terhadap firma berasaskan tani di Libya tentang kepentingan menggunakan sistem perakaunan...

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