High voltage operation is effective to improve salt adsorption capacity (SAC) of capacitive deionization (CDI), while this will cause performance loss during long-term operation. Herein, to address this issue, we report a simple approach to prepare novel membrane coating electrode (MCE) that...

Separation and recovery of target anions from wastewater is a sustainable method for chemical production industry. In this study, the novel anion exchange membranes with high antifouling and target ion selectivity performance were designed by the layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly of dopamine,...

Ultrasound-triggered sonodynamic therapy has shown great promising for the treatment of tumors, however, only few clinical reports describe the use of sonodynamic therapy, which results from that the traditional sonosensitizers tend to suffer from very poor efficiency combined with low retention...

Firm life-cycle concept has been used in a variety of disciplines, including economics, finance and accounting, and also in the real-world investment. This paper develops a new methodology of measuring firm life-cycle stages. By comparing a firm's status at each point of its development with its...

The SEC's EDGAR log files provide a direct, powerful measure of attention from relatively sophisticated investors. We apply this measure to a sample of earnings announcements from 2003 to 2016. We find that the stock market is less surprised, and the post-earnings-announcement drift is weaker...

This paper investigates investor inattention as a plausible explanation for market reaction to repurchase announcements. We use prior turnover as the proxy for investor attention to examine the difference in stock price performance between low-attention stocks and high-attention stocks. We find...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine market reactions to private equity placements and intra-industry information spillover effects in the Taiwan Stock Exchange.Design/methodology/approach – The authors first use the market model to compute the abnormal announcement returns. To...

By using a unique dataset of daily short covering volumes obtained from the Taiwan Stock Exchange, we first examine, in general, what drives daily short covering activity in the cross-section and its return predictability; we then investigate, in specific, the relation between short covering and...

Corporate life-cycle concept is widely used in a variety of disciplines, including management, economics and accounting, and also in the real-world investment. However, current commonly used methodologies of measuring life-cycle stages are either only suitable for small sample studies or only...