477 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-trr-10.1177_03611981221078848 – Supplemental material for Fuzzy Programming Approach for the Electric Multiple Unit Circulation Planning Problem Using Simulated Annealing
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-trr-10.1177_03611981221078848 for Fuzzy Programming Approach for the Electric Multiple Unit Circulation Planning Problem Using Simulated Annealing by Boliang Lin, Yinan Zhao, Jian Li and Ruixi Lin in Transportation Research Record</p
Reflections on the Establishment of the Chinese Air Identification Zone
No full textIn this paper Yinan Bao presents a very timely legal investigation into aspects of the current territorial dispute in the East China Sea. The author focuses on the Chinese Air Identification Zone and considers the issues regarding the legitimacy of the Chinese ADIZ and Chinese Aircraft Identification Rules. Drawing on previous comparable behaviour involving other countries and international relations, he makes the argument that this Zone is in accordance with international law
Reflections on the Establishment of the Chinese Air Identification Zone
No full textIn this paper Yinan Bao presents a very timely legal investigation into aspects of the current territorial dispute in the East China Sea. The author focuses on the Chinese Air Identification Zone and considers the issues regarding the legitmacy of the Chinese ADIZ and Chinese Aircraft Identification Rules. Drawing on previous comparable behaviour involving other countries and international relations, he makes the argument that this Zone is in accordance with international law
Reflections on the Establishment of the Chinese Air Identification Zone
No full textIn this paper Yinan Bao presents a very timely legal investigation into aspects of the current territorial dispute in the East China Sea. The author focuses on the Chinese Air Identification Zone and considers the issues regarding the legitimacy of the Chinese ADIZ and Chinese Aircraft Identification Rules. Drawing on previous comparable behaviour involving other countries and international relations, he makes the argument that this Zone is in accordance with international law
Reflections on the establishment of the Chinese Air Identification Zone
No full textIn this paper Yinan Bao presents a very timely legal investigation into aspects of the current territorial dispute in the East China Sea. The author focuses on the Chinese Air Identification Zone and considers the issues regarding the legitimacy of the Chinese ADIZ and Chinese Aircraft Identification Rules. Drawing on previous comparable behaviour involving other countries and international relations, he makes the argument that this Zone is in accordance with international law
Information retrieval as card playing: a formal model for optimizing interactive retrieval interface
No full textWe propose a novel formal model for optimizing interactive information retrieval interfaces. To model interactive retrieval in a general way, we frame the task of an interactive retrieval system as to choose a sequence of interface cards to present to the user. At each interaction lap, the system's goal is to choose an interface card that can maximize the expected gain of relevant information for the user while minimizing the effort of the user with consideration of the user's action model and any desired constraints on the interface card. We show that such a formal interface card model can not only cover the Probability Ranking Principle for Interactive Information Retrieval as a special case by making multiple simplification assumptions, but also be used to derive a novel formal interface model for adaptively optimizing navigational interfaces in a retrieval system. Experimental results show that the proposed model and algorithms are effective in automatically generating adaptive navigational interfaces, which outperform the baseline pre-designed static interfaces.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-05-01The student, Yinan Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-28 at 11:40.The student, Yinan Zhang, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-04-28 at 11:41.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-04-28 at 13:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8147 on 2015-07-22 at 14:26:32Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:46:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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sj-docx-1-aim-10.1177_09645284221085278 – Supplemental material for Manual acupuncture at ST36 attenuates rheumatoid arthritis by inhibiting M1 macrophage polarization and enhancing Treg cell populations in adjuvant-induced arthritic rats
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aim-10.1177_09645284221085278 for Manual acupuncture at ST36 attenuates rheumatoid arthritis by inhibiting M1 macrophage polarization and enhancing Treg cell populations in adjuvant-induced arthritic rats by Nannan Yu, Fuming Yang, Xue Zhao, Yongming Guo, Yuan Xu, Guangchang Pang, Yinan Gong, Shenjun Wang, Yangyang Liu, Yuxin Fang, Kun Yu, Lin Yao, Hui Wang, Kuo Zhang, Baohu Liu, Zhenguo Wang, Yi Guo and Zhifang Xu in Acupuncture in Medicine</p
Additional file 2: of Evolution in an extreme environment: developmental biases and phenotypic integration in the adaptive radiation of antarctic notothenioids
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Three essays on corporate financial disclosures
No full textThis dissertation consists of three papers. In the first paper we identify a new incentive for managers in determining management forecast (MF) characteristics stemming from the relative performance evaluation feature of CEO promotion tournaments. We document higher credibility of MF for firms with stronger tournament incentives (as proxied for by the CEO pay gap). We posit that the relative performance evaluation feature of CEO promotion tournaments creates mutual monitoring mechanism within the management team as well as the incentives for lower-ranked executives to provide high quality information to gain better evaluation results. We thereby extend previous MF literature that focuses mainly on equity-based incentives and reports mixed findings. Our results are robust to using different tournament measures, controlling for other known determinants of MF characteristics as well as manager skills, and corrections of endogeneity of all specifications. In the second paper, we investigate the spill-over effect of customer fraud on non-fraudulent suppliers’ investment decisions. We posit that suppliers utilize customers’ information to infer future demand and economic prospects, and noisy information distorts and misguides the investment and productions decisions made by suppliers. The overinvestment and misrepresented performance of customers signal a high demand and prosperous economic prospects for suppliers, resulting in overinvestment decisions by suppliers. We find that suppliers invest more during the fraud periods of customers. The degree of distortion is less severe when the supplier operates in concentrated industry and more severe when suppliers have higher sales volatility. In addition, we show that the overinvestments by suppliers are inefficient as associated future cash flows are significantly reduced. Our results are robust to different fraud samples, alternative research methodology, and controlling for other known determinants of investment decisions. In the third paper, we investigate whether firms engaging in corporate fraud take advantages of strategic timing of earnings announcements (EA). We document that misreporting firms strategically time their EA in low attention periods (i.e. after trading hours) during violation years. In addition, we show that the timing strategy is followed by a longer detection period and more insider trading. We thereby extend previous corporate disclosure timing literature that mainly focuses on the content of reported news. We also extend the corporate fraud literature by showing a low-cost way in which firms can possibly “hide” the manipulated earnings. Our results are robust to different samples of fraud, different research methodology, different sample periods, and controlling for other known determinants of market attention.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Yinan Yan
A formal framework for optimizing and evaluating interactive retrieval system
No full textThe past decades have seen dramatic increase in the amount of information available to us, and the research area of information retrieval has served to help us access the tiny subset of information relevant to each of us more efficiently and more effectively. This thesis studies how to formally optimize as well as evaluate an interactive information retrieval system.
First, we propose a formal general framework, the Interface Card Model, for optimizing interactive retrieval interface. We frame the task of an interactive retrieval system as to choose a sequence of interface cards to present to the user that can maximize the expected gain of relevant information for the user while minimizing the effort of the user, with consideration of the user's action model and any desired constraints on the interface card. We show that such a formal Interface Card Model can not only cover the classic Probability Ranking Principle as a special case by making multiple simplification assumptions, but also be used to derive a novel formal interface model for adaptively optimizing navigational interfaces in a retrieval system.
Second, we propose a novel formulation of the Interface Card Model, the Interface Card Model with User States, for solving concrete interface optimization problems. The formulation is based on sequential decision theory, leading to a general framework for formal modeling of user states and stopping actions. Simulation and user study experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in automatically adjusting the interface layout in adaptation to inferred user stopping tendencies in addition to user interaction and screen size.
Third, as a specific example of applying our proposed interface optimization framework in a larger scale real world application, we propose a Bayesian framework for user preference modeling and dynamically optimizing a faceted browsing system based on users' facet selection interactions.
Finally, we propose a general formal framework for evaluating IR systems based on search session simulation that can be used to perform reproducible experiments for evaluating any IR system, including interactive systems and systems with sophisticated interfaces. We show that the traditional Cranfield evaluation method can be regarded as a special instantiation of the proposed framework where the simulated search session is a user sequentially browsing the presented search results. We further show that the proposed framework enables us to evaluate a set of tag-based search interfaces, a generalization of faceted browsing interfaces, producing results consistent with real user experiments and revealing interesting findings about effectiveness of the interfaces for different types of users.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Yinan Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-10 at 00:01.The student, Yinan Zhang, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-07-10 at 00:15.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-07-11 at 09:08.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11353 on 2017-09-29 at 11:14:57Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T16:39:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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