MARK E. SIDDALL1∗, FRANK M. FONTANELLA2, SARA C. WATSON1, SEBASTIAN KVIST3, AND CHRISTER ERSÉUS4 1 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 2 The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA; 3 Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 4 Department of Zoolo...

Communities are complex and dynamic systems that change with time. The first attempts to explain how they were structured involve contemporary phenomena like ecological interactions between species (e.g., competition and predation) and led to the competition-predation hypothesis. Recently, the deep history hypothesis has emerged, which suggests that profound differences in the evolutionary hist...

People’s Republic of China has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. This study focuses on “whether China should continue its IFRS-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the IFRS is more appropriate”? Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. Binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...