Digitizing the Seminar Paper

Seminar Paper

Seminar Paper

This study links the trend in two earnings quality metrics: 1) the standard deviation of residuals from the Dechow and Dichev (2002) model, and 2) squared residuals from the Jones (1991) model to firm age (defined using data about firm incorporation/founding dates). The results reveal the significant increasing trends in both measures during the 1962-2006 period are related to the dramatic decr...

Andrew Hundt Seminar Paper Summary.pptx

This paper addresses the motion planning problemwhile considering Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) constraints.The proposed planner generates collision-free paths that areacceptable and legible to the human. The method extends ourprevious work on human-aware path planning to clutteredenvironments. A randomized cost-based exploration methodprovides an initial path that is re...

Seminar Paper No . 686 FIVE FALLACIES IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY

This paper discusses five examples of the conventional wisdom that has often been expressed in the social security debate, even among academic economists. These are: 1. The major problem in most social security systems is that of demography: people simply live too long. 2. Disregarding the issue of demography, a Pay-As-You-Go system is inferior to a fully funded system since the former usually ...

CAM: A Mobile Interaction Framework for Digitizing Paper Processes in the Developing World

During our work with community microfinance groups in rural India, we found that paper plays a crucial role in many local information practices. However, paper-based recordkeeping can be inefficient, so we need to link paper with the flexibility of modern information tools. A mobile phone can be the perfect bridging device. Here we present the CAM mobile document processing system, in which a c...