Estimates of the Standard Deviation of Performance in Dollars: An Investigation of the Influences of Alternative Sources of Information.

1985 ◽  
Vol 1985 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-268
Author(s):  
Joe R. Eulberg ◽  
Edward J. O'Connor ◽  
Lawrence H. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Alternative Sources

MONITORING THE ATTITUDE OF THE POPULATION TO PROBLEMS OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT FOR SITUATION-AL CENTERS OF A SMART CITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
D. Verzilin ◽  
T. Maximova ◽  
I. Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Operational Decision Making ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Intelligent Information ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Active Citizen

Goal. The purpose of the study was to search for alternative sources of information on popu-lation’s preferences and response to problems and changes in the urban environment for use in the operational decision-making at situational centers. Materials and methods. The authors used data from search queries with keywords, data on communities in social networks, data from subject forums, and official statistics. Methods of statistical data analysis were applied. Results. The analysis of thematic online activity of the population was performed. The re-sults reflected the interest in the state of the environment, the possibility of distance learning and work, are presented. It was reasoned that measurements of population’s thematic online activity let identify needs and analyze the real-time response to changes in the urban envi-ronment. Such an approach to identifying the needs of the population can be used in addition to the platforms “Active Citizen” of the Smart City project. Conclusions. An analysis of data on online activity of the population for decision-making at situational centers is more operational, flexible and representative, as compared with the use of tools of those platforms. Such an analysis can be used as an alternative to sociological surveys, as it saves time and money. When making management decisions using intelligent information services, it is necessary to take into account the needs of the population, reflect-ed in its socio-economic activity in cyberspace.

scholarly journals Alternative sources of data on the level of employment of Russian women in entrepreneurship

POPULATION ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Aysylu Ilimbetova
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
Women In Business ◽  
Structure Of Population ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Social Structuring

Development of the market economy and changes in the principles of social structuring of society lead to the fact that the concept of gender equality goes beyond the labor market and begins to spread to other spheres of public relations, for example, entrepreneurship. However, to obtain empirical data to understand the extent of participation of men and women in business, it is not sufficient to conduct surveys or censuses, because they do not specialize in such information and provide data only on forms of employment (for hire and not for hire). The article deals with the possibilities of using administrative sources of information (the Unified register of small and medium-sized businesses) and the SPARK information base to obtain gender statistics and assess gender equality on the example of women's entrepreneurship in Russia. The main advantage of these sources of information is the possibility of extracting data on the activities of Russian entrepreneurs, for which information is not provided by the statistical collections of Rosstat. Calculations of the author make it possible to establish existence in the Russian business of gender differentiation in entrepreneurship, formation of employment niches assigned to each sex that allows us to speak about the specific features of the Russian business. Thus, women are concentrated in micro- and small businesses; they are mainly engaged in the socially important services—health care and education, other individual services; they are prone to less risky and less innovative spheres, such as trade and services; there are similarities between the structure of entrepreneurship, employment as employees and the professional structure of population.

scholarly journals Manifestation of interest of the Russian youth for politicized content on the Internet: towards the holistic analytical model

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Dmitry Rudenkin ◽  
Dmitrii Valer'evich Trynov
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Internet Behavior ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Analytical Practice

This article is written in the theoretical-methodological genre. The key goal lies in the revision and systematization of versatile analytical hypotheses proposed by social and human science in order to explain the interest of Russian youth in politicized information content on the Internet. It is noted that the current analytical practice faces a fundamental contradiction between the prevalence of reflections of the scholars on the significant role of the Internet in development of the political moods and attitudes of the Russian youth audience and the absence  the well-established scientific representation on the reasons why there is a need to search  for political information namely on the Internet. This article aims to clarify this contradiction. Theoretical-methodological analysis is conducted on the disparate ideas used by social and human science to explain and interpret the heighted interest of Russian youth in the online politicized content. Procedurally, the work leans on the analysis of relevant current scientific literature for the period from 2015 to 2020 dedicated to examination of the patterns of Internet behavior and political culture of modern Russian youth. The conclusion is made that there are several versions that explain the heightened interest of Russian youth in politicized information on the Internet, which logically correspond with each other, but are usually not being generalized. Having summarized these versions into a single analytical model, the authors indicate the key reason for the heightened interest of Russian youth in political information on the Internet is the low level of trust in the traditional media, which forces them to seek the alternative sources of information on topics of concern online.

scholarly journals Do audited firms have a lower cost of debt?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif M. Huq ◽  
Fredrik Hartwig ◽  
Niklas Rudholm
Keyword(s):  
Financial Statements ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Private Debt ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
History Of ◽  
Debt Market ◽  
Instrumental Variable Method ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
The Cost

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate if audited financial statements add value for firms in the private debt market. Using an instrumental variable method, we find that firms with audited financial statements, on average, save 0.47 percentage points on the cost of debt compared to firms with unaudited financial statements. We also find that using the big, well-known auditing firms does not yield any additional cost of debt benefits. Lastly, we investigate if there are industries where alternative sources of information make auditing less valuable in reducing the cost of debt. Here, we find that auditing is less important in lowering cost in one industry, agriculture, where one lender has a 74% market share and a 100-year history of lending to firms within that industry. As such, it seems that lenders having high exposure to a certain industry might act as an alternative to auditing in reducing the information asymmetry between the firm and the lender.

Irony and Outrage

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
The Right

This book explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres—liberal political satire and conservative opinion talk—making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively. One genre is guided by ambiguity, play, deliberation, and openness, while the other is guided by certainty, vigilance, instinct, and boundaries. While the audiences for Sean Hannity and John Oliver come from opposing political ideologies, both are high in political interest, knowledge, and engagement, and both lack faith in some of the United States’ core democratic institutions. This book illustrates how the roles these two genres play for their viewers are strikingly similar: galvanizing the opinion of the left or the right, mobilizing citizens around certain causes, and expressing a frustration with traditional news coverage while offering alternative sources of information and meaning. However, the book proposes that these genres differ in a crucial way: in their capacity to be exploited by special interests and political elites. The book concludes that due to the symbiotic relationship between conservative outrage and the psychological and physiological characteristics of the right, conservative outrage is uniquely positioned as a mechanism for successful elite propaganda and mobilization—in a way that liberal satire is not.

Setting the problem of energy production forecasting for small hydropower plants in the Target Model era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Korina Konstantina Drakaki ◽  
Georgia-Konstantina Sakki ◽  
Ioannis Tsoukalas ◽  
Panagiotis Kossieris ◽  
Andreas Efstratiadis
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Market ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Small Hydropower ◽  
Target Model ◽  
Production Forecasting ◽  
Hydropower Plants ◽  
Hydropower Production ◽  
Alternative Sources

<p>The highly-competitive electricity market over EU and the challenges induced by the so-called “Target Model”, introduce significant uncertainties to day-ahead trades involving renewable energy, since most of these sources are driven by non-controllable weather processes (wind, solar, hydro). Here, we explore the case of small hydropower plants that have negligible storage capacity, and thus their production is just a nonlinear transformation of inflows. We discuss different forecasting approaches, which take advantage of  alternative sources of information, depending on data availability. Among others, we investigate whether is it preferable to employ day-ahead predictions based on past energy production data per se, or use these data in order to retrieve past inflows, which allows for introducing hydrological knowledge within predictions. Overall objective is to move beyond the standard, yet risky, point forecasting methods, providing a single expected value of hydropower production, thus quantifying the overall uncertainty of each forecasting method. Power forecasts are evaluated in terms of economic efficiency, accounting for the impacts of over- and under-estimations in the real-world electricity market.</p>

scholarly journals Essential Attributes of the Accounting Information in Applying The Financial Reporting Differences Between Ifrs and us Gaap

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Ioana Herbei
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Professional Judgment ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Us Gaap

Abstract In the context of the development of information, the main role of financial reporting is threatened by alternative sources of information that users use. However, the main source of information for decision-makers remain the accounting information relaxed from synthesis financial reporting, because the legal framework prescribes mandatory minimum information and a set of quality certification mechanisms thereof. As a starting point in our research we used relevant studies from the scientific literature regarding the understanding of the accounting information in financial reporting. We specify that many authors place the accounting information in the perimeter of the objectivity and the accuracy, which is essential in making economic decisions by the leadership. Thus, in support of decisionmakers, accountants apply professional judgment (judgment of International Financial Reporting Standards), taking decisions in terms of the use of accounting treatments to achieve a quality of financial reporting information. The contents of the article have been reported not only attributes on accounting information provided by IFRS, but also aspects of US GAAP regarding financial reporting, presenting the differentiation between the two accounting referential. We note that the accounting information can be the best friend of actual and potential investors if used properly understood

Property generation reflects word association and situated simulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ava Santos ◽  
Sergio E. Chaigneau ◽  
W. Kyle Simmons ◽  
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Feature Listing ◽  
Language Areas ◽  
Form System

AbstractThe property generation task (i.e. “feature listing”) is often assumed to measure concepts. Typically, researchers assume implicitly that the underlying representation of a concept consists of amodal propositions, and that verbal responses during property generation reveal their conceptual content. The experiments reported here suggest instead that verbal responses during property generation reflect two alternative sources of information: the linguistic form system and the situated simulation system. In two experiments, properties bearing a linguistic relation to the word for a concept were produced earlier than properties not bearing a linguistic relation, suggesting the early properties tend to originate in a word association process. Conversely, properties produced later tended to describe objects and situations, suggesting that late properties tend to originate from describing situated simulations. A companion neuroimaging experiment reported elsewhere confirms that early properties originate in language areas, whereas later properties originate in situated simulation areas. Together, these results, along with other results in the literature, indicate that property generation is a relatively complex process, drawing on at least two systems somewhat asynchronously.

scholarly journals “Something is Immensely Rotten in the Media Republic”. The Information Dimension of the Refugee Crisis in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Iurii Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Year’S Eve ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Alternative Sources

Abstract The article analyzes the reaction of German media to the assaults on women in Cologne and other German and European cities on New Year’s Eve 2015/2016. Nationwide TV channels and newspapers, with rare exceptions, did not report about the events till January 4 or even 5, causing outrage in social networks. This is serious evidence of deep problems in German and Western journalism. Due to the abundance of information resources, the mainstream media hold no monopoly on news delivery anymore. If they continue to compromise themselves, there is a danger of reorientation of the Western audience towards alternative sources of information: extremist Internet resources and foreign media, first of all the Russian ones.

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