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York University
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About: York University is a education organization based out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 18899 authors who have published 43357 publications receiving 1568560 citations.
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TL;DR: This article examined social desirability bias in the context of ethical decision-making by accountants and found that women who were more religious recorded the highest bias scores relative to less religious women and men regardless of their religiousness.
Abstract: This study examines social desirability bias in the context of ethical decision-making by accountants. It hypothesizes a negative relation between social desirability bias and ethical evaluation. It also predicts an interaction effect between religiousness and gender on social desirability bias. An experiment using five general business vignettes was carried out on 121 accountants (63 males and 58 females). The results show that social desirability bias is higher (lower) when the situation encountered is more (less) unethical. The bias has religiousness and gender main effects as well as an interaction effect between these two independent variables. Women who were more religious recorded the highest bias scores relative to less religious women and men regardless of their religiousness.
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TL;DR: This paper used several univariate and multivariate statistical models to estimate forecasts of daily volatility in petroleum futures price returns and evaluated the out-of-sample forecasts using forecast accuracy tests and market timing tests.
460 citations
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TL;DR: Migration routes of migratory songbirds to the Neotropics were mapped by using light-level geolocators mounted on breeding purple martins and wood thrushes and suggesting high connectivity of breeding and wintering populations.
Abstract: We mapped migration routes of migratory songbirds to the Neotropics by using light-level geolocators mounted on breeding purple martins (Progne subis) and wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina). Wood thrushes from the same breeding population occupied winter territories within a narrow east-west band in Central America, suggesting high connectivity of breeding and wintering populations. Pace of spring migration was rapid (233 to 577 kilometers/day) except for one individual (159 kilometers/day) who took an overland route instead of crossing the Gulf of Mexico. Identifying songbird wintering areas and migration routes is critical for predicting demographic consequences of habitat loss and climate change in tropical regions.
459 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used recently developed heterogeneous panel regression techniques like mean group estimators and common correlated effects estimators to model the impact that income, urbanization and industrialization has on energy intensity for a panel of 76 developing countries.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a three-dimensional, fully transient, physics-based computer simulation approach for modelling fire spread through surface fuels and compare the results from Australian experiments.
Abstract: Physics-based coupled fire–atmosphere models are based on approximations to the governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion, and the thermal degradation of solid fuel. They require significantly more computational resources than the most commonly used fire spread models, which are semi-empirical or empirical. However, there are a number of fire behaviour problems, of increasing relevance, that are outside the scope of empirical and semi-empirical models. Examples are wildland–urban interface fires, assessing how well fuel treatments work to reduce the intensity of wildland fires, and investigating the mechanisms and conditions underlying blow-up fires and fire spread through heterogeneous fuels. These problems are not amenable to repeatable full-scale field studies. Suitably validated coupled atmosphere–fire models are one way to address these problems. This paper describes the development of a three-dimensional, fully transient, physics-based computer simulation approach for modelling fire spread through surface fuels. Grassland fires were simulated and compared to findings from Australian experiments. Predictions of the head fire spread rate for a range of ambient wind speeds and ignition line-fire lengths compared favourably to experiments. In addition, two specific experimental cases were simulated in order to evaluate how well the model predicts the development of the entire fire perimeter.
458 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Dan R. Littman | 157 | 426 | 107164 |
Martin J. Blaser | 147 | 820 | 104104 |
Aaron Dominguez | 147 | 1968 | 113224 |
Gregory R Snow | 147 | 1704 | 115677 |
Joseph E. LeDoux | 139 | 478 | 91500 |
Kenneth Bloom | 138 | 1958 | 110129 |
Osamu Jinnouchi | 135 | 885 | 86104 |
Steven A. Narod | 134 | 970 | 84638 |
David H. Barlow | 133 | 786 | 72730 |
Elliott Cheu | 133 | 1219 | 91305 |
Roger Moore | 132 | 1677 | 98402 |
Wendy Taylor | 131 | 1252 | 89457 |
Stephen P. Jackson | 131 | 372 | 76148 |
Flera Rizatdinova | 130 | 1242 | 89525 |
Sudhir Malik | 130 | 1669 | 98522 |