The pure and 2 mol% Ce 3+ ions doped KY 3 F 10 (Ce: KYF) single crystals were successfully grown in a vacuum by spontaneous nucleation of the vertical Bridgman method. Ce: KYF single crystal had high crystalline quality and transmittance, and the cutoff absorption edge was significantly red...

Purpose: This paper brings together research on advertising, family business, and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm to examine performance differences between publicly traded US family vs non-family firms. The purpose of this paper is to understand the heterogeneity of family vs...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the prevalence of informed trading around corporate spinoffs and the relation between firm opacity and informed trading using option market data. Design/methodology/approach: The author investigates the prevalence of informed trading by examining the...

In recent years, bipartite-networks-based recommendations have attracted the attention of many researchers. Many of them are committed to improving the recommendation algorithms such as network-based inference (NBI) or probability spreading (ProbS). However, usually one or two parameters are...