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- ASTM Committee D01 reports of June 2007 subcommittee activities
- ASTM Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials, and Applications held its 2007 Summer Meetings at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Arcade in Cleveland, OH, over the period June 17-19, 2007. G03 on Weathering and Durability met concurrently. Reports from the various commitees are summarized below. Activities...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Help one another, use one another: toward an anthropology of family business
- Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long-term generalized reciprocity and short-term balanced reciprocity. Because...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- McLuhan's Canadian Sense of Space, Time and Tactility
- Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).Marshall McLuhan's work has not been the subject of many genuinely scholarly books, nor has he, with few exceptions, been regarded as an artist or as a significant figure in the pantheon of Canadian culture. Consequently, Richard...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- Big Flower's Columbine JDS Signs Five-Year Contract with Turner Broadcasting
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 3, 1999--Big Flower Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BGF) announced today that its broadcast management software group, Columbine JDS CJDS, has signed a five-year agreement with Turner Broadcasting to continue providing it with CJDS' BIAS computerized traffic system. The agreement between CJDS and Turner Broadcasting covers all of Turner's...
- Research articles 1999-03-03
- The influence of Thorstein Veblen on the economics of Harold Innis
- On the other hand, Canadian scholars interested in the work of Innis have frequently invoked the name of Veblen in their efforts to grasp and elucidate the nature of Innis's thought. However, just as this literature offers different interpretations and assessments of Innis's work, it similarly offers a distinct lack...
- Research articles 1996-09-01
- Disney, Good Faith, and Structural Bias
- This Article assesses the recent Disney decision and argues that on the facts presented, the decision was probably correct. However, the court squandered an opportunity to develop and articulate an appropriate doctrinal approach for the issues the case prThis Article assesses the recent Disney decision and argues that on the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Morgan Stanley has defended itself against LVMH's allegations of bias by quoting Bernard Arnault, ceo of LVMH, expressing similar opinions to those of analyst Clare Kent.(Brief Article)
- MORGAN STANLEY has defended itself against LVMH's allegations of bias by quoting Bernard Arnault, ceo of LVMH, expressing similar ... MORGAN STANLEY has defended itself against LVMH's allegations of bias by quoting Bernard Arnault, ceo of LVMH, expressing similar opinions to those of analyst Clare...
- Research articles 2003-06-06
- Swearing in, swearing off.(how news networks cover elections)(Brief Article)
- Network news chiefs pledge to improve coverage and to hold off projecting states until all that state's polls are closed News networks will change the way they cover elections to ensure that they never repeat the mistakes they made on election ...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- A Bureau of Labor Statistics perspective on bias in the consumer price index.
- I present the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS perspective on bias in the Consumer Price Index CPI. However, all the interesting measurement questions with which BLS is trying to deal, or even all the CPI issues that have been mentioned at this con I present the...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
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- The real CBS bias.(Opinion)
- Did CBS News executives let their bias blow up what may potentially have been a big story on the eve of an even bigger election? Yes, but that answer depends on what bias we're talking about. If we are talking about the journalist's bias for the &q...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- Meta-Study on Phone-Cancer Studies Shows Bias
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be some bias in those showing the least risk, researchers reported on Tuesday. So far it is difficult to demonstrate any link, although the best studies do suggest some...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Welcome to the Dark Side: Hedge Fund Attrition and Survivorship Bias Over the Period 1994-2001
- Hedge funds exhibit a high rate of attrition that has increased substantially over time. Using data over the period 1994-2001, the article shows that lack of size, lack of performance and an increasingly aggressive attitude of old and new fund managers alike are the main factors behind this. Although attrition...
- White papers 2001-12-11
- A Unified Variational Approach to Denoising and Bias Correction in MR
- This paper proposes a novel bias correction method for magnetic resonance MR imaging that uses complementary body coil and surface coil images. The former are spatially homogeneous but have low signal intensity; the latter provide excellent signal response but have large bias fields. They present a variational framework where they...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Clinic cleared of race bias, but EKG staff upset noted. (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Clinic cleared of race bias, but EKG staff upset noted The U.S. Department of Labor, in its second probe of racial bias at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the last 18 months, said it has found no evidence that the hospital discriminated against blClinic cleared...
- Research articles 1990-07-16
- LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and conflicts of interest.(FINANCIAL NEWS)(LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., Morgan Stanley Group Inc.)(Brief article)
- LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and conflicts of interest. The row concerned accusations of bias from research published by ... LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and...
- Research articles 2007-02-23
- Anti-Bias Curriculum
- Derma n-Sparks, Louise and The Anti-Bias Curriculum Taskforce. Anti-Bias Curriculum, 1988. Pacific Oaks, CA: Pacific Oaks Bookstore. 30 minutes, color. $35. The Anti-Bias Curriculum film is an excellent multicultural education resource for teacher educators, teacher education students, and in-service teachers, especially those in early childhood education ECE. The film discusses...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Products and Prejudice: Measuring Country-of-Origin Bias in U.S. Wine Imports
- Should exporters worry about country-of-origin bias? Although the pervasiveness of country-level product advertising suggests that they do, lack of data has limited the empirical study of subjective bias toward products from a specific country. Using data from the U.S. wine industry, including numerical blind tasting evaluations, this paper directly computes...
- White papers 2003-07-03
- Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- This paper presents evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, it shows that investors fail to fully account for optimistic bias associated with analyst disagreement. This bias arises for two reasons. First, analysts issue...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Generalized Minimum Bias Models
- This paper proposes a flexible and comprehensive approach for minimum bias models - "Generalized Minimum Bias Models"GMBM. Unlike the Generalized Linear Models GLMs that require the exponential family distribution assumption of response variables, the GMBM approach relaxes the distribution assumption. In addition, due to its model selection flexibility, it believes...
- White papers 2005-01-18
- Knowledge Measurement and Interviewer Bias
- Organizations can be defined as knowledge-based systems with the objective to influence all knowledge processes. Defining and measuring the knowledge value of the company are key strategic concerns in contemporary companies. First, this paper discusses the basic knowledge measurement approaches. During the process of knowledge identification the interviewing method is...
- White papers 2005-06-29
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