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Three Essays On Diversification Strategy, Diversification Performance, And Corporate Misconduct
… essay investigates the relationship between diversification strategy and firm performance in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. Prior literature has evaluated the effect of total diversification on insurer performance; however, there is an absence of evidence on the effect of …
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A contingency theory of diversification : the case of diversification into the Thai telecommunications industry
During the past two decades, the trend towards diversification by large corporations in the advanced industrialised nations has been a transition from diversification to specialisation. However, there is little evidence of these same trends being duplicated in the emerging-market countries. Are …
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Subprofile aware diversification of recommendations
… The most common approach to recommendation diversification uses re-ranking: the recommender system scores a set of candidate items for relevance to the user; it then re-ranks the candidates so that the subset that it will recommend achieves a balance between relevance and diversity. …
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CONGLOMERATE DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY AND CORPORATE PERFOMANCE
… in creating or destroying value in conglomerate diversification strategy. Its development is the result of a path of research along a fertile area that lies at the intersection of strategic management, corporate finance and organization theory.
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Mesoderm diversification during mouse embryonic development
… stages a suitable paradigm to study cell type diversification. Nevertheless, the low cell numbers in early mouse embryos and the limited strategies to isolate homogenous cell populations have restricted the study of the transcriptional programs and regulatory processes that underlie these …
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Firm specific capital and corporate diversification
… growing trend toward more extensive corporate diversification. The thesis here is that a great deal of the observed diversification has been the result of an effort by firms to develop internal markets for resources which do not trade well through external markets. The nature of this resource, …
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The Ghana Stock Exchange: Concentration, Diversification, Liquidity
… index (HHI) or Richard Roll measure (RRC). Diversification is (nmfirned with generation of returns from different sources. The iraditional method of measuring diversification has fallen short of vital, is usually expected hence the introduction of the new measure, portfolio diversification …
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The evolution and diversification of Pleistocene Homo
… processes acting during the emergence and diversification of our genus, and considering the possible ancestor-descendant relationships at the transition from australopith to Homo. Analyses are performed on three-dimensional scan data (landmarks and interlandmark distances) collected from …
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Evolution and phenotypic diversification in serratia marcescens biofilms
… of the conditions that trigger phenotypic diversification. Furthermore, it provides an insight into the molecular understanding of how phenotypic variation is being generated, and demonstrates the clinical and environmental implications of phenotypic diversification during bacterial …
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Regulation of Immunoglobulin Gene Diversification By Noncoding RNA's
… in both affinity and function. These somatic diversification processes are catalyzed by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a potent DNA mutator whose expression and function are highly regulated. I show that AID is regulated posttranscriptionally by a lymphocyte-specific microRNA, …
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Transcriptional control of somatosensory neuron diversification in Drosophila
Primary sensory neurons deliver information from the periphery to specific circuits in the central nervous system. It is vital that each sensory neuron detects the appropriate type of stimulus and conveys that information to appropriate regions of the sensory neuropil to target second-order …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… with an emphasis on the role of product diversification, change in product variety, and the impact of export orientation on manufacturing productivity. The developing Asian countries provide an ideal laboratory for a comparative case study of these issues for two reasons. First, these …
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Sexual selection and biological diversification: Patterns and processes
This dissertation investigates the evolutionary consequences of three very different behavioral mechanisms by which males may bias female mating decisions in their favor, elaborate male displays (Chapters I and II) and sexual coercion and resource brokering (Chapter III). The results presented here …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… with an emphasis on the role of product diversification, change in product variety, and the impact of export orientation on manufacturing productivity. The developing Asian countries provide an ideal laboratory for a comparative case study of these issues for two reasons. First, these …
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Diversification and debt : Australian evidence / Jean Milva Canil.
Focuses on the association between diversification and debt, and concurrent shareholder wealth effects for Australian firms, in order to answer the question of why firms diversify. Whilst not directly answering the question, the thesis shows that diversified firms have relatively more long-term and …
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Optimal Regional Industrial Diversification, a Portfolio-Analytic Approach
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Chemical diversification and anticancer activity of natural products
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