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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Surnames"”.
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Surname Distributions, Origins, and their Association with Y-chromosome Markers in the Aleutian Archipelago
… geographic distribution and ethnic origins of surnames as well as their association with Y-chromosome haplogroups found in Native communities from the Aleutian Archipelago. The project's underlying hypothesis is that surnames and Y-chromosome haplogroups are correlated in the Aleutian Islands …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Bias in the Financial Market
… We find that journalists with more favorable surnames have stronger impact on the stock price. This effect is more pronounced for stocks with smaller firm size, lower institutional ownership, and lower analyst coverage. We further use the U.S.-China trade war as an exogenous shock to the …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Bias in the Financial Market
… We find that journalists with more favorable surnames have stronger impact on the stock price. This effect is more pronounced for stocks with smaller firm size, lower institutional ownership, and lower analyst coverage. We further use the U.S.-China trade war as an exogenous shock to the …
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Lenkų bajorų integracija Žemaitijoje: migracija, kalba, atmintis XVI a. –XVIII a /
… to the local Samogitians, the formation of surnames of the new-arrivals, how these surnames were presented in chancelleries and alike, and unsual instances where Polish surnames were “Lithuanian-ised”. In this study, the extensions used along with the first names of newly-settled Polish …
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Fomc Dissenting: Is the Chairman Conducting the Music?
… could limit opportunities of members with surnames beginning with letters late in the alphabet from expressing their dissent and therefore prevent potentially valuable information from reaching financial markets. In their analysis, Gerlach-Kristen and Meade use a multinomial probit to test …
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Name symbolism in Hawthorne's five finished novels
… in the author's selection of given names and surnames for his characters. Name symbolism includes both sound and meaning of names or parts of names. Symbolic naming is defined as that technique through which a character's name, straightforwardly or ironically, reveals his inner nature and his …
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Mitigating Negative Perceptions Due to Gender Norm Violation Through Adherence to Another Prevalent Gender Norm
… evaluations emerging for women who retain their surnames as poor relationship partners (Drea, Brown, & Sacco, under review; Robnett, Underwood, Nelson, & Anderson, 2016).</p> <p>Another historically important norm for women, in addition to men, is desiring children after marriage, a convention …
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Essays on Building Growth From Ideas
… a novel approach that utilizes the power of surnames in capturing socioeconomic status persistence across time. The results show that the social allocation favors the wealthy over the talented in determining who become inventors. The rest of the chapter develops a quantitative model of …
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Semantic and pragmatic analysis of selected Namwanga personal names.
… unity, hatred, displeasure, gossiping, clan, surnames, special names and many others. Namwanga names have semantic and pragmatic meaning that can only be known by the name-giver or the context in which they are given and through naming one is able to perform certain functions or acts such as …