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Relationship between Real Earnings Management with Cost of Debt in Chinese Listed High-Tech Enterprises: The Perspective of Corporate Income Tax Incentives
To encourage corporate investment in innovation or R&D and foster innovative firms, the government of China established standards for the certification of high-tech enterprises in 2008. The business entities that fulfill these standards are entitled to tax deductions. One of the criteria is the ratio of R&D expenses to sales exceeding a specific percentage (which depends on the annual revenue) in the preceding 3 years. Moreover, this study examines data from the CSMAR database for the period 2008-2019 and includes data from 8,233 listed high-tech enterprises. The results show that if the proportion of pre-managed R&D expenses to pre-managed sales that are less than 6% (or 5%), 4%, or 3% in the past three years of firms with different sales range in the current year and managed earnings through sales or R&D expenses to fulfill the standards required for the certification positively influenced the costs of debt (non-significant)
Relationship between Fuel Price Volatility with Earnings Management in African Airlines: The Perspective of Real Activities Earnings Management
This study examines data from the COMPUSTAT database, and annual reports for the period from 2002Q1 to 2018O4 in African Airlines. The results show that fuel price volatility positively influenced real earnings management such as cash flow from operations and discretionary expenditures. In addition, fuel price volatility also positively to real earnings management such as product costs (but this variable is non-significant)
Seeking for sterile neutrinos with displaced leptons at the LHC
We study the signal of long-lived sterile neutrino at the LHC produced
through the decay of the boson. It decays into charged lepton and jets. The
characteristic signature is a hard prompt lepton and a lepton from the
displaced decay of the sterile neutrino, which leads to a bundle of displaced
tracks with large transverse impact parameter. Different from other studies, we
neither reconstruct the displaced vertex nor place requirement on its invariant
mass to maintain sensitivity for low sterile neutrino masses. Instead, we focus
on the displaced track from the lepton. A difficulty for low mass sterile
neutrino study is that the displaced lepton is usually \textit{non-isolated}.
Therefore, leptons from heavy flavor quark is the major source of background.
We closely follow a search for displaced electron plus muon search at CMS and
study their control regions, which is related to our signal regions, in great
detail to develop a robust estimation of the background for our signals. After
further optimization on the signal limiting the number of jets, low and
large lepton displacement to suppress SM background, we reach an
exclusion sensitivity of about () for the mixing angle
square at 10 (2) GeV sterile neutrino mass respectively. The strategy we
propose can cover the light sterile masses complimentary to beam dump and
forward detector experiments.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; v2: matched to Journal version
Arbitrary point cloud upsampling via Dual Back-Projection Network
Point clouds acquired from 3D sensors are usually sparse and noisy. Point
cloud upsampling is an approach to increase the density of the point cloud so
that detailed geometric information can be restored. In this paper, we propose
a Dual Back-Projection network for point cloud upsampling (DBPnet). A Dual
Back-Projection is formulated in an up-down-up manner for point cloud
upsampling. It not only back projects feature residues but also coordinates
residues so that the network better captures the point correlations in the
feature and space domains, achieving lower reconstruction errors on both
uniform and non-uniform sparse point clouds. Our proposed method is also
generalizable for arbitrary upsampling tasks (e.g. 4x, 5.5x). Experimental
results show that the proposed method achieves the lowest point set matching
losses with respect to the benchmark. In addition, the success of our approach
demonstrates that generative networks are not necessarily needed for
non-uniform point clouds.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Soft-IntroVAE for Continuous Latent space Image Super-Resolution
Continuous image super-resolution (SR) recently receives a lot of attention
from researchers, for its practical and flexible image scaling for various
displays. Local implicit image representation is one of the methods that can
map the coordinates and 2D features for latent space interpolation. Inspired by
Variational AutoEncoder, we propose a Soft-introVAE for continuous latent space
image super-resolution (SVAE-SR). A novel latent space adversarial training is
achieved for photo-realistic image restoration. To further improve the quality,
a positional encoding scheme is used to extend the original pixel coordinates
by aggregating frequency information over the pixel areas. We show the
effectiveness of the proposed SVAE-SR through quantitative and qualitative
comparisons, and further, illustrate its generalization in denoising and
real-image super-resolution.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Effect of earnings management on economic value added: A cross-country study
This paper addresses the association between earnings management and economic value added (EVA) among nations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), European Union (EU), and those classified as a newly industrialized country (NIC). Furthermore, an analysis of the earnings management behaviour is presented based on data from 2009 to 2013. The results indicated that a significantly inverse relationship exists between earnings management through either discretionary accruals (DAs) or real earnings management (REM) activities and EVA in NAFTA and EU nations. Moreover, a significantly positive relationship exists between earnings management through either DAs or REM and EVA in ASEAN and NIC nations. In addition, REM activities exhibit greater explanatory power among these nations
Rapid determination of volatile constituents in safflower from Xinjiang and Henan by ultrasonic-assisted solvent extraction and GC–MS
AbstractThe total volatile components were extracted from safflower by ultrasonic-assisted solvent extraction (USE) and their chemical constituents were analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) to provide scientific basis for the quality control of safflower. Five different solvents (diethyl ether, ethanol, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane and acetone) were used and compared in terms of number of volatile components extracted and the peak areas of these components in TIC. The results showed that USE could be used as an efficient and rapid method for extracting the volatile components from safflower. It also could be found that the number of components in the TIC of ethyl acetate extract was more than that in the TIC of other solvent ones. Meanwhile, the volatile components of safflower from Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Henan Province of China were different in chemical components and relative contents. It could be concluded that both the extraction solvents and geographical origin of safflower are responsible for these differences. The experimental results also indicated that USE/GC–MS is a simple, rapid and effective method to analyze the volatile oil components of safflower
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