We examine a sample of Value Line’s timeliness rank upgrades that occur immediately following earnings announcements and find that the pre-event price momentum has significant incremental explanatory power for the post-event drift, after controlling for the level of earnings surprise. Therefore, the drift following Value Line’s timeliness upgrades of the stocks that it covers cannot be construe...

This article explores the consequences major power rivalries over connectivity investments have for small states in Asia and thereby contributes to a better understanding of states’ strength capabilities an increasingly multipolar world. With reference literature on states, field work, interviews, Bangladesh’s remarkable success reaping benefits from relations with rivalling powers past decade....

OBJECTIVE: We determined relative effects of nutritional status, intellectual ability, exposure to mass media, and socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, demographic, and educational variables on scholastic achievement (SA). METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. Exposure to mass media and nutritional, intellectual, socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, demographic, and educational facto...

We perform principal components analyses of the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment and TV sentiment in order to gain information on their structure and information content. By introducing the new sentiment variable TV sentiment, gathered from sentiment from statements from over 10,000 TV news broadcasts in the United States, we nd that TV sentiment adds great value in nowcasting...

air conditioning refrigerant r134a has value of global warming potential (gwp) 1300, which is much higher than mac directive (gwp below 150) passed in july 2006. this prompted a search for alternative refrigerant with gwp value less than 150. r1234yf is a new refrigerant which has lower gwp value of 4. effect of blower speed has been compared and flammability issue of r1234yf has been addressed...

A Multi Agent Decision System (MADES) is a Multi Agent System built for decision making, where a single decision is output by the system as a group, although internally many decisions may be made locally by the component agents (Giráldez, 97a). The use of the IAO (Intelligent Agents Organization) model (Giráldez, 97b) for MADES has produced accuracy results that improve the results obtained by ...