This paper examines how corporate debt maturity relates to forward-looking disclosures. I find that higher levels of short-maturity debt are associated with increases in forward-looking disclosures, consistent with firms fulfilling the demand for information when faced with increased uncertainty...

Taking three counties in northern Jiangsu (Suining, Ganyu and Sihong) as the respondents, the economic principles of food safety issues of rural areas in northern Jiangsu are described from three aspects which are information asymmetry, food supply and food safety issue and food consumption and...

The properties of the cotton fabric with water-repellence finishing by sol method with the hexadecyltrimethoxysilane as additive were observed. The cotton fabrics were immersed in the prepared sols with double dip and double nip dried at 90°C, annealed at 160°C for 3 min. The water repellence...

Bacterial infections pose a serious threat to public health. It is therefore essential to develop systems with effective antibacterial properties. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of materials which are considered promising for applications due to several properties, such as large...

It is fairly common in developed economies that a small set of insurers with large capitalization often account for the majority of their insurance markets. While tight regulations of the insurance industry are well-intended to protect the interests of policyholders and ensure market stability,...