Textile Manufacturers' Market Valuation of Cotton Fiber Attributes

Valuation, Categories and Attributes

Existing research on categories has only examined indirectly the value associated with being a member of a category relative to the value of the set of attributes that determine membership in that category. This study uses survey data to analyze consumers' preferences for the "organic" label versus for the attributes underlying that label. We found that consumers generally preferred products wi...

Correction: Valuation, Categories and Attributes

Mergers and market valuation: real options approach

This paper investigates the connection between market valuation anda type of the merger (stock, cash) using real options setup. I solveexplicitly for the timing and terms of cash mergers in two deferent settingsto demonstrate that cash mergers generally occur at low marketvaluations, whereas stock mergers that may be observed at both low andhigh valuations; the result holds with some dierences ...

Chronic lung disease in cotton textile workers.

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Pulmonary Function Among Cotton Textile Workers

Longitudinal variability in respiratory responses, ineluding symptom reporting and across-shift change in ventilatory function, were examined in relation to long-term loss of ventilatory function in a group of 447 cotton textile workers in Shanghai, China. The study used a standardized respiratory questionnaire and standardized spirometric testing before and after a work shift on the first day ...