Issues related to audit team personnel and the resultant effects on audit outcomes have not been investigated widely with archival data due to data unavailability. In this study, we examine whether and how increases in co-working experience between the lead and the concurring partners impact...

This study examines whether the interaction of corporate managerial attributes and the amount of private information in stock prices exerts significant effects on the sensitivity of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and the performance of acquiring firms. We find the heterogeneity in firms’ M&A...

This paper investigates the effect that employee treatment schemes have on corporate innovation performance. We find that firms with better employee treatment schemes produce more and better patents through improving employee satisfaction and teamwork. Additional tests suggest that our main...

Motivated by applications in shared vehicle systems, we study dynamic pricing of resources that relocate over a network of locations. Customers with private willingness-to-pay sequentially request to relocate a resource from one location to another, and a revenue-maximizing service provider sets...

Online Health Q&A platforms (OHQPs), where patients post health-related questions, evaluate advice from multiple doctors and direct a bounty to their most preferred answer, have become a prominent channel for patients to seek and receive medical advice in China. Common characteristics of these...

Multiple mendelian randomization studies in European populations have reported a positive relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and bone mineral density. However, it remains unknown whether such relationship exists in Asian populations remains unclear because the risk of...

The absolute value equation (AVE) is a nondifferentiable NP-hard and continuous optimization problem with a wide range of application, including linear programming, quadratic programming, and game theory. The AVE has several solution forms, such as single-peak, multi-peak, and high-dimension. In...

The material and microstructure of the carrier-selective layers in the perovskite solar cells are important to determining their efficiency and stability. Planar tin dioxide (p-SnO 2 ) is the most commonly used inorganic electron transport layer, but there are few reports on its mesoporous...

Plastics biodegradation by insect larvae is regarded as an emerging strategy for the disposal of resistant plastic wastes. Larvae of superworms (Zophobas atratus Fab.) and mealworms (Tenebrio molitor Fab.) can survive on sole plastic diets. However, no side-by-side comparison of plastics...

Seed size is an important component of overall seed yield trait, and apricots cultivated for consumable kernels produce kernels that are large and sweet. The molecular mechanism of kernel development in these consumption apricots, however, remains unclear. We measured kernel weight, kernel...