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Degraded peatlands release 100-200 g-CO2 eqv. m-2 yr-1 in net emissions and account for more than 10% of global CO2 emissions. The success of bog restoration is dependent on creating suitable…

Persistent bubble accumulation during the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) can effectively block catalytically active surface sites and reduce overall system performance. The OER is an essential half-…

Background: For some children challenging behaviours, including defiance and aggression, start to impede their development and well-being. We set out to determine whether early interventions could…

Brain-computer interface (BCI) allows collaboration between humans and machines. It translates the electrical activity of the brain to understandable commands to operate a machine or a device. In…

This essay approaches the issue of masculinity through a historical analysis grounded in the Chinese context. It focuses on how the concept of masculinity has been negotiated in prominent examples of…

Through looking at Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt, this research delves into the dynamics that showcase media’s complicity in violence committed through denial of existing sectarian problems and…

Africa is full of mixed stories about desperation, lost and despair, and when young Africans offer an alternative narrative; they often are challenged to defend themselves. Most people like to think…

Maternal overnutrition and obesity during pregnancy can have long-term effects on offspring physiology and behaviour. These developmental programming effects may be mediated by fetal exposure to…

Psychological challenges, including traumatic events, have been hypothesized to increase the age-related pace of biological aging. Here we test the hypothesis that psychological challenges can affect…

Past research has documented myriad pernicious psychological effects of high economic inequality, prompting interest into how people perceive, evaluate, and react to inequality. Here we propose,…

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of Altman’s Z score in predicting corporate bankruptcy for Canadian listed companies. First, we estimate Altman’s original model and test the…

In this paper, we explore the use of Schwartz and Smith two-factor model incopper pricing. We used both Copper future data from LME and Analyst Forecast datafrom Bloomberg (LME) and World Bank as…

In May 2017, our library decommissioned our locally developed, open source knowledgebase and link resolver and adopted a vendor-provided one. This session will cover the pros and cons of being a…

In this paper, we extended the works done by Conconi, Demidow, Klein and Niu(2013), which examined the equal sector strategy. It was claimed that allocating assets equally into different sectors…

Given that CEO tenure is considered an impetus to firm performance, we analyze the abnormal returns for different tenure groups using the Fama-French (1993) and Carhart (1997) four-factor model. The…

This paper attempts to re-examine Li (2007)’s study on the interrelationships among the stock exchanges in mainland China, Hong Kong and the U.S. by applying a four-variable BEKK-GARCH model. After…

This paper examines how bank-specific variables and macroeconomic variablesaffect the profitability of US commercial banks over the period 2010-2016.Taking return on assets (ROA) and return on equity…

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between compensation andbank profitability from 2002 to 2016. We divide the entire observation into three sub-periodgroups: Before the…

The paper focuses on finding the interaction among stock, bonds and CDS markets from a country’s level to get the pattern of lead-lag relationship among three markets. It adopts a three-dimensional…

This article studies the effect that immigrant has on mortgage delinquency rate in Canadianhousing market. We refer the paper ‘Immigrant and mortgage delinquency’ made by Lin, Liu and Xie(2016),…