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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…

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),…

This research paper focusses on a model to quantify strategic risk and calculate adequate capital that can be used to absorb losses in times of distress. Strategic risk, used interchangeably as…

This paper studies the influence of U.S monetary policy on international stockreturn-risk characteristics over three major periods led by U.S recessions. Additionally, itaddresses whether emerging…

The ability to classify rooms in a home is one of many attributes that are desired for social robots. In this paper, we address the problem of indoor room classification via several convolutional…

Canada is at an interesting point in its history, where the atrocious assimilation practices that were in place until the mid-1990s are being acknowledged in the hopes for a better relationship…

This paper provides the empirical analysis of leverage and pricing of leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions. We collected sample data of 87 deals that were completed over the period of 1995 to 2013 in…

The objective of this paper is to analyze the small firm premium in the US equity market during the period 1998 to 2017. We find the difference in returns between large-sized firms and small-sized…

An in-depth understanding of the nature of the available terrain and its exposure to avalanche hazard is crucial for making informed risk management decisions when travelling in the backcountry.…

In this paper, we attempt to examine the relationship between hedge fund asset under management (AUM) and fund return. We refer to the methodology and conclusions used in Platt, Cai, and Platt (2015…

Abstract: Background: Perceived devaluation is a barrier to seeking mental and physical health services among people who use illicit drugs.Objective: Assessing the prevalence and correlates of…

The objective of this project is to analyze whether a higher level of research and development (R&D)expense generates a higher stock return for firms. Data include firms from all industries…

Explorations into today’s labour context reveal a wide schism between those workers who live under conditions of precarity and contingency and those who seem to be living the dream – and not only in…

With increasing abundance and ubiquity of mobile phones, desktop PCs, and tablets in the last decade, we are seeing students intermixing these modalities to learn and regulate their learning. However…

Ocean colour (OC) remote sensing is important for monitoring marine ecosystems. However, inverting the OC signal from the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance measured by satellite sensors remains a…

The Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation is a siliciclastic unit that occurs in the subsurface of Alberta in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin. This study focuses on a lowstand paleoshoreline trend…

Visual tracking performance has long been limited by the lack of better appearance models. These models fail either where they tend to change rapidly, like in motion-based tracking, or where accurate…

This study examines the equity excess return and the effect of financial crisis and financial recession probabilities on the excess return. In the paper, we observed the relationship of equity excess…

Neurons throughout the mammalian brain possess non-motile cilia, organelles with varied functions in sensory physiology and cellular signaling. Yet, the roles of cilia in these neurons are poorly…

A recent case study of a course journal using the Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) Open Journal Systems (OJS) allows students to facilitate the creation of an online, open access journal by…