We examine the impact of religiosity on earnings quality, utilising a global sample 1283 listed banks headquartered in 39 countries and covering period 2002–2018. Using instrumental variables two-stage least squares regressions, we demonstrate that has significant positive banks’ quality. further show becomes more pronounced among where religion is an important element national identity with we...

Abstract Ear length is an important component of maize grain yield. However, the ear a complex quantitative trait, and underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, chromosome segment substitution line (CSSL) 1283 displayed longer compared with recipient parent Xu178. An RNA sequencing analysis Xu178 CSSL1283 ears during three undifferentiated developmental stages identified 1...

The authors regret, in the above-mentioned article, we discovered an error related to standards for adequate precision systematic reviews of continuous variables. relevant paragraph reads as follows: “Because it may give false reassurance, hesitate offer a rule-of-thumb threshold absolute number patients required For example, using usual ? (0.05) and ? (0.20), effect size 0.2 standard deviation...

A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the problems involved in the infectious waste recovery at home-visit nursing stations. 1965 nursing stations were selected randomly, and questionnaires were sent to them. Nurses at 1314 stations (66.9%) responded to the survey and responses from 1283 stations were identified as suitable for analysis after excluding 26 stations that closed and ...