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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to document the determinants and value relevance of corporate disclosure and … transparency on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Fama and French model by …-2008) Findings – The author found positive though statistically insignificant relationship between corporate disclosure and firm …
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the understanding of tourist motivation measurement by comparing two frequently adopted motivation measurement approaches … reliable in terms of internal consistency. However, respondents tended to rate more positively in the SP scale than in the IR … scale. Factor analyses extracted similar underlying structures from the two measurements, with each factor explaining almost …
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Service has traditionally been a forceful competitive tool in grocery retailing. Lately discount stores has proven to be a winning concept within North European grocery re-tailing and this has evoked a renewed interest in service quality and grocery retailing. The overall aim of this study is to...
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Purpose – A fully functioning carbon accounting system must be based on measurement that is materially accurate …-field exploration of whether and how to achieve accuracy, consistency and certainty in carbon accounting. Findings – It was found that … there are tensions between accuracy, consistency and certainty in carbon accounting both within and across organisational …
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for the measurement of emotion duration have been left unaddressed. First, it is unclear whether people are capable of … emotional experience are influenced by the format of the response scale. Participants watched joy- and sadness-sustaining movie … duration of their emotions during each fragment on a relatively short-range or long-range scale. Regardless of whether fragment …
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weighing lysimetry or soil water sensing and measurement, along with data on the other components of the water balance … water measurement by coring is accurate enough, but plagued by spatial variability that induces unwanted variability in the … by the random arrangement of soil micro-scale water content, σdc and bulk density distribution. Thus, we recommend that …
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measurement issues represent a central theme in the volume. Stewart also comments on what he sees as the diminishing importance of …
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The goals of this study were to validate a number of available collective social capital measures at the US state and county levels, and to examine the relative extent to which these social capital measures are associated with population health outcomes. Measures of social capital at the US...
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To prevent the recurrence of child maltreatment, actuarial risk assessment can help child protective services (CPS) workers make more accurate and consistent decisions. However, there are few published articles describing construction methodologies and performance criteria to evaluate how well...
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