Definitions of interdisciplinarity often focus on the integration of disciplinary concepts or perspectives. Few definitions, however, are grounded in the work of faculty who conduct interdisciplinary scholarship. To better understand the practice of interdisciplinarity in research and teaching, and its implications for academics' professional lives, I interviewed college and university faculty ...

Nanotechnology has a great influence on modern technology, just like the development of DNA profiling on biotechnology in the past 50 years. Because of applying knowledge and techniques from natural science, forensic science aims to identify, individualize and evaluate evidence. Evidence will then be used to reconstruct crime scenes, guide investigations and bring criminals to justice. Nanotech...

Merger and Acquisitions (M&As) provide a plausibly exogenous shock to analysts’ decision to drop, add or maintain coverage of the merged firms. Higher caliber analysts covering the acquiring and target firms before the M&A deal are more likely to cover the merged firm. The majority of target analysts drop coverage of the merged firm following the delisting of the target stock. However, the targ...

Applications should be an invaluable experimental source of information and challenges for AI research. The real world always stretches the limitations of our AI systems, pointing toward new research themes in many areas. In the process of implementing an application, the designer continually makes choices based on (1) the baseline architecture used to implement the application, (2) the charact...

We study how M&As shape analysts’ coverage decisions and whether this process reveals information about the valuation and future performance of the merged firms. Since the target firm is delisted after the M&A, we expect and find that the majority of the analysts covering the target drop their coverage of the merged firm. However, the target analysts who retain coverage provide the most accurat...