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To comply or not to comply: understanding the discretion in reporting public float and SEC regulations
No full textThis paper documents how firms exercise discretion in defining affiliates and reporting public float in response to SEC regulations. I find that firms with higher expected compliance costs under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 tend to classify more shares as affiliated and report lower public float. In contrast, firms issuing seasoned equity are less likely to underreport public float, possibly due to favorable regulatory treatment for large issuers. These incentives are weakened when future regulatory changes render float less important.Peer reviewe
Understanding and exploring people’s food beliefs to design healthy eating applications
No full textWellness is a domain of growing interest in computing. Many interventions are designed to modify people’s behavior to make them healthy. But often, they ignore people’s beliefs and socioeconomic context so no sustained change are achieved. This thesis, therefore, focuses on rethinking how we can leverage people’s food beliefs to design healthy eating systems that can achieve sustained change.The thesis begins with a literature review on why healthy eating is complex and how it depends on various contexts including people’s food beliefs. Then we reflect upon current design notion of healthy eating applications and acknowledge the current designs can not address all the complex of healthy eating. Thus, we should explore the alternative design notion, which tries to leverage what people think about food.A study on diet-related topics and social interaction patterns on forums led us to the idea that crowd’s wisdom on food’s healthiness could help people to better understand food and potentially encourage them to change eating behavior. Thus, we designed and evaluated one early prototype that allows people to judge each other’s food’s healthiness by giving ratings and checking 5 predefined heuristics. The outcome of this prototype study confirmed that people like the idea of expressing own thoughts about food and like to have others’ thoughts to validate owns. We further explored exactly what kinds of food beliefs people hold via a survey study with real food pictures. And we found 8 categories of food beliefs and also validated that even experts can not reach consensus on food’s healthiness and thus there is clearly a gap between what we know from nutrition literature and how interventions are actually designed. To further leverage people’s food beliefs, we need to first capture it. We developed three simple UIs to capture such food beliefs, and evaluated the UIs from three different perspectives. We also found two patterns from the data we collect which can help us better visualize the data and identify group of people. In the end of the thesis, we discuss the thesis work and present the future works
FIGURES 7–10. Stenus liuyei 7 Male sternite VIII 8 Male sternite IX 9, 10 in A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species
No full textFIGURES 7–10. Stenus liuyei 7 Male sternite VIII 8 Male sternite IX 9, 10 aedeagus. Scale bars: 0.25 mm.Published as part of Gao, Feng-Mei & Tang, Liang, 2017, A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species, pp. 432-440 in Zootaxa 4299 (3) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/83608
A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species
No full textGao, Feng-Mei, Tang, Liang (2017): A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4299 (3): 432-440, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.3.
FIGURE 1–6. Habitus. 1 Stenus viridanus 2 S. viridivestis 3 S. viridicans 4 S in A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species
No full textFIGURE 1–6. Habitus. 1 Stenus viridanus 2 S. viridivestis 3 S. viridicans 4 S. liuyei sp. n. 5 S. cyanogaster 6 S. panyuhongae sp. n. Scale bars: 1 mm.Published as part of Gao, Feng-Mei & Tang, Liang, 2017, A review of the Stenus viridanus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species, pp. 432-440 in Zootaxa 4299 (3) on page 436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/83608
Social Interaction around Diet Applications: An Initial Study
No full textAs being threatened by overweight and obesity, more and more people start thinking how to change the way they eat. However, less evidence shows current diet-related applications really work and current design mainly focuses on nutrition value and are not tailored to specific person. In this paper, we try to learn from social science to investigate two popular diet products' forums to see what social interaction happens and what elements related to those social interaction. Then we find out contextual information and emotion are related to social conversation on forum which help people find similar buddies to solve problem and validate opinions and understandings. We argue we should take into account those information and social interaction in our future design to better support diet
FIGURE 1. Rihirbus sinicus Hsiao & Ren 1981 in A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
No full textFIGURE 1. Rihirbus sinicus Hsiao & Ren 1981, ♀, habitus. Scale bar of 1 = 6.06 mm.Published as part of Gao, Feng, Zhao, Ping, Webb, Mick & Cai, Wanzhi, 2015, A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), pp. 502-516 in Zootaxa 3963 (4) on page 506, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/23381
FIGURE 2. Rihirbus sinicus Hsiao & Ren 1981 in A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
No full textFIGURE 2. Rihirbus sinicus Hsiao & Ren 1981, ♂, habitus. Scale bar of 2 = 5.27 mm.Published as part of Gao, Feng, Zhao, Ping, Webb, Mick & Cai, Wanzhi, 2015, A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), pp. 502-516 in Zootaxa 3963 (4) on page 507, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/23381
FIGURE 14 in A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae)
No full textFIGURE 14. Rihirbus trochantericus Stål 1861, ♀, habitus. Scale bar of 14 = 5.11 mm.Published as part of Gao, Feng, Zhao, Ping, Webb, Mick & Cai, Wanzhi, 2015, A taxonomic review of the polymorphic assassin bug genus Rihirbus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae), pp. 502-516 in Zootaxa 3963 (4) on page 511, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/23381
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