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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence on the preliminary effects of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on accounting quality for a relatively broad set of firms from 20 countries that adopted IFRS in 2005 relative to a benchmark group of firms that did not adopt IFRS matched on the strength of legal enforcement, industry, size, book-to-market, and accounting performance.
Abstract: We provide evidence on the preliminary effects of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on accounting quality for a relatively broad set of firms from 20 countries that adopted IFRS in 2005 relative to a benchmark group of firms from countries that did not adopt IFRS matched on the strength of legal enforcement, industry, size, book-to-market, and accounting performance. Relative to these benchmark firms, we find that IFRS firms exhibit significant increases in income smoothing and aggressive reporting of accruals, and a significant decrease in timeliness of loss recognition; however we do not find significant differences across IFRS and benchmark firms in meeting or beating earnings targets. Our findings contrast with findings in earlier studies which suggest that IFRS adoption leads to increased accounting quality. Our findings primarily hold for firms in strong enforcement countries which suggests that enforcement mechanisms in these countries were not able to counter the initial effects of greater flexibility in IFRS relative to domestic GAAP.
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Vienna University of Technology1, CINVESTAV2, Broad Institute3, University of Salamanca4, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica5, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology6, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre7, University of Szeged8, Joint Genome Institute9, University of Missouri–Kansas City10, French Institute of Health and Medical Research11, Macquarie University12, Technical University of Berlin13, Texas A&M University14, University of Debrecen15, Spanish National Research Council16, Centre national de la recherche scientifique17, Aalborg University18, French Institute of Petroleum19, International Sleep Products Association20, Wageningen University and Research Centre21, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory22
TL;DR: A better understanding of mycoparasitism is offered, and the development of improved biocontrol strains for efficient and environmentally friendly protection of plants is enforced.
Abstract: Mycoparasitism, a lifestyle where one fungus is parasitic on another fungus, has special relevance when the prey is a plant pathogen, providing a strategy for biological control of pests for plant protection. Probably, the most studied biocontrol agents are species of the genus Hypocrea/Trichoderma. Here we report an analysis of the genome sequences of the two biocontrol species Trichoderma atroviride (teleomorph Hypocrea atroviridis) and Trichoderma virens (formerly Gliocladium virens, teleomorph Hypocrea virens), and a comparison with Trichoderma reesei (teleomorph Hypocrea jecorina). These three Trichoderma species display a remarkable conservation of gene order (78 to 96%), and a lack of active mobile elements probably due to repeat-induced point mutation. Several gene families are expanded in the two mycoparasitic species relative to T. reesei or other ascomycetes, and are overrepresented in non-syntenic genome regions. A phylogenetic analysis shows that T. reesei and T. virens are derived relative to T. atroviride. The mycoparasitism-specific genes thus arose in a common Trichoderma ancestor but were subsequently lost in T. reesei. The data offer a better understanding of mycoparasitism, and thus enforce the development of improved biocontrol strains for efficient and environmentally friendly protection of plants.
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University of Washington1, University of Wisconsin-Madison2, Texas A&M University3, National Taiwan University4, University of Genoa5, University of Notre Dame6, TRIUMF7, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory8, Yale University9, Hebrew University of Jerusalem10, University of Naples Federico II11, Colorado School of Mines12, Weizmann Institute of Science13, Osaka University14, University of South Carolina15, Goethe University Frankfurt16, University of Pisa17, Argonne National Laboratory18, Sungkyunkwan University19, Old Dominion University20, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility21, University of Catania22, Ruhr University Bochum23, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research24, Technische Universität München25
TL;DR: The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized and critically evaluated in this article.
Abstract: The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized and critically evaluated. Recommended values and uncertainties are provided for key cross sections, and a recommended spectrum is given for {sup 8}B solar neutrinos. Opportunities for further increasing the precision of key rates are also discussed, including new facilities, new experimental techniques, and improvements in theory. This review, which summarizes the conclusions of a workshop held at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, in January 2009, is intended as a 10-year update and supplement to 1998, Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 1265.
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TL;DR: This article examined attitudes of residents of two of Ghana's towns toward tourism development factor analysis of scaled items measuring their attitudes resulted in seven tourismrelated factors: social interaction with tourists, beneficial cultural influences, welfare impacts, negative interference in daily life, economic costs, sexual permissiveness, and perception of crowding.
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Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
Scott M. Grundy | 187 | 841 | 231821 |
Evan E. Eichler | 170 | 567 | 150409 |
Yang Yang | 164 | 2704 | 144071 |
Martin Karplus | 163 | 831 | 138492 |
Robert Stone | 160 | 1756 | 167901 |
Philip Cohen | 154 | 555 | 110856 |
Claude Bouchard | 153 | 1076 | 115307 |
Jongmin Lee | 150 | 2257 | 134772 |
Zhenwei Yang | 150 | 956 | 109344 |
Vivek Sharma | 150 | 3030 | 136228 |
Frede Blaabjerg | 147 | 2161 | 112017 |
Steven L. Salzberg | 147 | 407 | 231756 |
Mikhail D. Lukin | 146 | 606 | 81034 |
John F. Hartwig | 145 | 714 | 66472 |