To assess the effects of TCHM on patients with HIV infection and AIDS, we reviewed eleven randomized placebo-controlled trials involving 998 patients. Due to the limited number of RCTs for included trials and the small sample size of each study, we are not able to draw firm conclusions concerning TCHM therapy in treating patients with HIV infection and AIDS. However, some high-quality clinical ...

The circular economy is increasingly establishing itself as a model capable of overcoming the current linear production and consumption recognized unsustainable by society. Its relevance has also attracted attention academics, interested not only in implementation methods economy, but ways which companies communicate information about them. However, although recent years some scholars have begu...

This study provides a guide to accounting research on private firms with an emphasis the European setting. We start by providing overview of firm financial reporting regulation in Europe and indicate how this institutional framework can be used identify promising settings that part generalise beyond Next, we discuss availability data underlying generating process involves firms’ original report...

Purpose Because no international accounting policy exists to mandate human capital (HC) information must be reported on financial reports, the association between workforce HC and firm performance/efficiency is not well-established. South Korea a rare example with high reporting quality, as well relatively national productivity. On other hand, in some developed countries (such UK), quality prod...

Consider a two-product firm that decides on the quality of each product. Product quality is unknown to consumers. If the firm sells both products under the same brand name, consumers adjust their beliefs about quality subject to the performance of both products. We show that if the probability that low quality will be detected is in an intermediate range, the firm produces high quality under um...

We propose a firm lifecycle model in which the firm privately invests in its quality and thereby its reputation. Over time, both the firm and the market learn about the firm’s evolving quality via infrequent breakthroughs. The firm can also exit if its value becomes negative, giving rise to selection effects. In a pure-strategy equilibrium, incentives are single-peaked: the firm shirks immediat...