Credit ratings convey credit risk information to participants in financial markets, including investors, issuers, intermediaries and regulators. This paper proposes an automatic text analysis system for financial news and analyzes the effects of news coverage and sentiment factors on credit ratings. Our experiment results show that firms with higher news coverage received worse ratings in the n...

Marine Biology and Aquaculture, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 3 Australian Institute of Marine Science at James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,...

INTRODUCTION Prior assessments of emergency medical services (EMS) stroke capacity found deficiencies in education and training, use of protocols and screening tools, and planning for the transport of patients. A 2001 survey of North Carolina EMS providers found many EMS systems lacked basic stroke services. Recent statewide efforts have sought to standardize and improve prehospital stroke care...

1 College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 2 Centre for Marine Microbiology and Genetics, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 3 AIMS@JCU, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, ...

Medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum has been used in East Asia for centuries in order to prevent and treat a variety of diseases such as hepatitis, immunological disorders and cancers. In fact, this fungus contains a vast source of polysaccharides, proteins and secondary metabolites with anti-tumor and immuno-modulatory properties. Up to now, a variety of drug metabolites extracted from G. luc...

Background. Nursing terminologies are designed to support nursing practice but, as with any other clinical tool, they should be evaluated. Cross-mapping is a formal method for examining the validity of the existing controlled vocabularies. Objectives. The study aims to assess the inclusiveness and expressiveness of the nursing diagnosis axis of a newly implemented interface terminology by cross...