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Memorial University of Newfoundland

EducationSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About: Memorial University of Newfoundland is a education organization based out in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gadus. The organization has 13818 authors who have published 27785 publications receiving 743594 citations. The organization is also known as: Memorial University & Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether social ties between engagement auditors and audit committee members shape audit outcomes and find that close interpersonal relations can undermine auditors' monitoring of the financial reporting process.
Abstract: We examine whether social ties between engagement auditors and audit committee members shape audit outcomes. Although these social ties can facilitate information transfer and help auditors alleviate management pressure to waive correction of detected misstatements, close interpersonal relations can undermine auditors' monitoring of the financial reporting process. We measure social ties by alma mater connections, professor-student bonding, and employment affiliation, and audit quality by the propensity to render modified audit opinions, financial reporting irregularities, and firm valuation. Our evidence implies that social ties between engagement auditors and audit committee members impair audit quality. In additional results consistent with expectations, we generally find that this relation is concentrated where social ties are more salient, or firm governance is relatively poor and agency conflicts are more severe. Implying reciprocity stemming from social networks, we also report some sugge...

157 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a new life cycle indexing system is proposed, which will facilitate the LCA application in process and product evaluation and decision-making, which is comprised of four important sub-indices or attributes -environment, health and safety (EHS), cost, technical feasibility, and socio-political factors.

157 citations

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TL;DR: The ratio of crater diameter to rim-to-floor depth is constant for low-energy impacts, but increases at higher energy, similar to what is observed for lunar craters.
Abstract: We present the results of experiments on impact craters formed by dropping a steel ball vertically into a container of small glass beads. As the energy of impact increases, we observe a progression of crater morphologies analogous to that seen in craters on the moon. We find that both the diameter and the depth of the craters are proportional to the 1/4 power of the energy. The ratio of crater diameter to rim-to-floor depth is constant for low-energy impacts, but increases at higher energy, similar to what is observed for lunar craters.

157 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new index named Safety Weighted Hazard Index (SWeHI) was proposed to measure the impact of safety measures on the values of the hazard indices, which can be used to identify the more hazardous units from the less hazardous ones so that greater attention can be paid to the former.

157 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, combined petrographic and geochemical methods are used to investigate the microfabrics present in thin sections prepared from representative organic carbon-rich mudstones collected from three successions (the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, the Jet Rock Member of the Whitby Mudstone Formation, and the pebble shale and Hue Shale).
Abstract: Combined petrographic and geochemical methods are used to investigate the microfabrics present in thin sections prepared from representative organic carbon-rich mudstones collected from three successions (the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, the Jet Rock Member of the Whitby Mudstone Formation, and the pebble shale and Hue Shale). This study was initiated to determine how organic carbon-rich materials were being delivered to the sediment–water interface, and what happened to them after deposition, prior to deep burial. Analyses of the fabrics present shows that they exhibit many common attributes. In particular they are all: (1) highly heterogeneous on the scale of a thin section, (2) organized into thin beds ( The organomineralic aggregates present in these mudstones are interpreted to be ancient examples of marine snow. This marine snow likely formed in the water column, particularly during phytoplankton blooms, and was then transported rapidly to the seafloor. The existence of the thin beds with homogenized tops and an in-situ infauna indicates that between blooms there was sufficient oxygen and time for a mixed layer to develop as a result of sediment colonization by diminutive organisms using either aerobic or dysaerobic metabolic pathways. These textures suggest that the constituents of these mudstones were delivered neither as a continuous rain of sediment nor were the bottom waters persistently anoxic. In addition, the presence of thin lags and sharp-based beds suggests that the seafloor was being episodically reworked during deposition. These fabrics indicate that conditions in the water columns and at the seafloors while these rocks were being deposited were very dynamic, and episodic fluxes of high concentrations of organic carbon to the seafloor, during phytoplankton blooms, likely enhanced preservation of organic carbon.

157 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Daniel Levy212933194778
Rakesh K. Jain2001467177727
Peter W.F. Wilson181680139852
Martin G. Larson171620117708
Peter B. Jones145185794641
Dafna D. Gladman129103675273
Guoyao Wu12276456270
Fereidoon Shahidi11995157796
David Harvey11573894678
Robert C. Haddon11257752712
Se-Kwon Kim10276339344
John E. Dowling9430528116
Mark J. Sarnak9439342485
William T. Greenough9320029230
Soottawat Benjakul9289134336
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202386
2022269
20211,808
20201,749
20191,568
20181,516