scholarly journals A Note on the Factors Affecting Corn Basis Relationships

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal Naik ◽  
Raymond M. Leuthold
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Price Relationships ◽  
The U.S

AbstractEmpirical tests were made of components of the corn basis in the U.S. utilizing a general theory of intertemporal price relationships for storable commodities. These tests showed that the basis consists of a risk premium, a speculative component, and a maturity basis apart from other factors such as storage costs for storable commodities. The results provide insights into factors affecting basis patterns for corn.

Accuracies of Computer versus Manual Linkages of Routine Health Records

1979 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha E. Smith ◽  
H. B. Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Central Processor ◽  
Processor Time ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Linkage Methods ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Speed Accuracy ◽  
Computer Operation

Empirical tests of the application of computer record linkage methods versus the use of routine clerical searching, for bringing together various vital and ill-health records, have shown that the success rate for the computer operation was higher (98.3 versus 96.7 per cent) and the proportion of false linkages very much lower (0.1 versus 2.3 per cent). The rate at which the ill-health records were processed by the computer was approximately 14,000 per minute of central processor time, representing a cost of a half a cent apiece.Factors affecting the speed, accuracy and cost of computerized record linkage are discussed.

THE INFLUENCE OF SCOTTISH ACCOUNTANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE EARLY CASE OF THE SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS IN EDINBURGH

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. LEE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Research Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Case ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Chartered Accountants ◽  
The U.S

This study represents part of a long-term research program to investigate the influence of U.K. accountants on the development of professional accountancy in other parts of the world. It examines the impact of a small group of Scottish chartered accountants who emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Set against a general theory of emigration, the study's main results reveal the significant involvement of this group in the founding and development of U.S. accountancy. The influence is predominantly with respect to public accountancy and its main institutional organizations. Several of the individuals achieved considerable eminence in U.S. public accountancy.

The Social Development Model

2018 ◽  
pp. 223-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cambron ◽  
Richard F. Catalano ◽  
J. David Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Social Development Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Empirical Tests

This chapter presents an overview of the social development model (SDM)—a general theory of human behavior that integrates research on risk and protective factors into a coherent model. The goal of this synthesis is to provide more explanatory power than its component theories. This chapter first specifies the model constructs and their hypothesized relationships to prosocial and antisocial behaviors. It then provides a synthesis of what has been learned from empirical tests of social development hypotheses for predicting pro- and antisocial behaviors. This chapter also highlights interventions derived from the SDM and summarizes their impact on pro- and antisocial behaviors. Finally, the chapter concludes by presenting future directions for SDM-based research.

scholarly journals A Balanced Portfolio Can Have a Higher Geometric Return than the Risky Asset

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Miriam Arden ◽  
Tiemen Woutersen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Premium ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Stock Portfolios ◽  
Bond Portfolio ◽  
Target Date ◽  
Stock Portfolio ◽  
The U.S

In the U.S., the geometric return on stocks has been higher than the geometric return on bonds over long periods. We study whether balanced portfolios have a larger geometric return (and expected log return) than stock portfolios when the risk premium is low. We use a theoretical model and historical data and find that this is the case. This low-risk premium is often observed in other developed countries. Further, in the past two decades, a balanced portfolio with 70% or 90% invested in the U.S. stock market (with the remainder invested in U.S. government bonds) performed better than a 100% stock or bond portfolio. The reason for this is that a pure stock portfolio loses a large fraction of its value in a downturn. We show that this result is not driven by outliers, and that it occurs even when the returns are log normally distributed. This result has broad policy implications for the construction of pension systems and target-date mutual funds.

Delayed online search: an alternative access mode for developing countries

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahaa El-Hadidy
Keyword(s):  
Data Communication ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Alternative Mode ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Document Delivery ◽  
Access Mode ◽  
Distant Location ◽  
International Data ◽  
The U.S

The paper discusses the design and implementation of a pilot experiment to introduce commercially available online service to Egyptian users from a geographically distant location in the U.S. With the lack of international data communication net works for online transmission in Egypt, a delayed online search technique is used as an alternative mode for accessing the service from the U.S. A document delivery support system from abroad is also discussed. A critical analysis and evaluation of the project activities is presented. Factors affecting the performance of the service, and users' reactions and expecta tions are also analysed.

Factors Affecting Application for Overseas Research: A Survey of MESA Members

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jere L. Bacharach
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
The Body ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
American Government ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Background Material ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Quantitative Nature

Why are there relatively few American academicians applying for overseas grants? This was the underlying question at a meeting in April, 1988, where members of the CIES (Council for the International Exchange of Scholars of the Fulbright Commission), the U.S. Information Agency, and the Board of Foreign Scholars, the body which oversees all American government-sponsored activities, met. As background material, CIES presented data accumulated from surveying a sample of individuals who had requested information for Fulbright programs but had not applied. (Twenty-six of the sample were interested in the Middle East programs.) Information of a non-quantitative nature was drawn from the reports of recent Fulbrighters and was also included.

Inequality in Pay Ranks Among Factors Impacting Job Satisfaction Among Female Physicians

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Jaciel Elizabeth Keltgen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Female Physician ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Health System Change ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Generational Membership ◽  
The U.S

Job satisfaction has fallen among doctors, and beyond lack of pay parity that averages 25%, female physician job satisfiers differ from male colleagues. Health systems can build upon female physicians' confidence in their abilities to communicate with patients, show empathy, build trust, and elicit patient compliance with treatment plans. Systems must attend to work conditions for young and female cohorts, thereby retaining half of the workforce offering critical care to 7.8 billion people. Ordinal logistic regression was used to analyze data gathered in the U.S. by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Data were used to build a predictive statistical model in concert with independent variables linked to generational and job satisfaction literature. This study revealed statistically significant correlations between factors not only by gender, but also by generational membership. Statistically significant factors affecting job satisfaction among female physicians include provision of quality care to all patients, adequate time spent with patients and income.

Assessing Intelligence Performance

2010 ◽  
pp. 86-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Of Intelligence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intelligence Agencies ◽  
Performance Rate ◽  
The U.S

Literatures on intelligence predominantly focus on intelligence failures, often explicitly claiming that the failures reflect the poor performance of the intelligence agencies as a whole. Despite negative claims on the performance of these agencies, politicians, citizens, and scholars often have little to discuss on intelligence performance. They seldom ask what the intelligence services do in aggregate; what their performance rate is; how the infrequent yet prominent failures compare to ongoing performance that is invisible to the outsiders because it is at least adequate; and how ignorance of the performance of the different types of intelligence activities affects the overall assessment of the intelligence services. This little discussion on some of the important aspects of intelligence performance resulted in the absence of general theory of intelligence performance. To judge better intelligence performance, understanding the functions and the nature of work of the intelligence services is a must. This article hence uses existing theory and available data to determine the theory of the whole performance of intelligence agencies. It also provides a scorecard of the recent performance of the U.S. intelligence and suggests avenues for future research.

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