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Relevance Criteria when Searching and Evaluating Online Video for Informational UseDewitt-Miller, Erin 05 1900 (has links)
Relevance is a core concept in the field of Information Science and a common term in everyday vernacular that generally refers to the usefulness of information. However, relevance has not been sufficiently or consistently defined or explored in the information science literature. Relevance criteria are the factors that information users employ when determining whether information they encounter is relevant. Identifying relevance criteria is a crucial step to understanding relevance. Relevance criteria employed with newer information formats like online video are especially important to study. Online video is now widespread, and people are increasingly likely to rely on video for information. This study identifies relevance criteria employed during relevance assessments of online video through a explanatory sequential mixed-methods study of frequent online video users including students, faculty, librarians, and video professionals. Methods included an online survey and interviews.
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Intellectual capital and equity valuationTsai, Ching-chen 07 June 2005 (has links)
With the coming of knowledge economy, intellectual capital has become the most important sources of competitiveness. Because intellectual capital lacks uniform valuation and has nonconformity with the definition of GAAP intangible assets, most intellectual capital can¡¦t be presented in financial reports. If we can consider intellectual capital in business valuation, we can assess firm¡¦s intrinsic value more exactly. So this study is based on Ohlson (1995) model to examine the value relevance of human capital (human assets), structural capital (R&D assets) and relational capital (advertising assets).
The empirical evidence shows that (1) human assets, R&D assets and advertising assets have significant positive relation with market value of firms, (2) the Ohlson (1995) model including the three assets components has greater value relevance, (3) the effect of human assets, R&D assets and advertising assets on business valuation are different among industries.
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Inferential relevance and its implications to inferential information retrievalPark, Hongseok. January 1995 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography (leaves 212-221).
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Inferential relevance and its implications to inferential information retrievalPark, Hongseok. January 1995 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography (leaves 212-221).
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Relevance judgements in information retrievalCosijn, Erica. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (DPhil. ( Information Science))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references
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Bridging and relevanceMatsui, Tomoko. January 1900 (has links)
Originally presented as the author's thesis-University College, London, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Bridging and relevanceMatsui, Tomoko. January 1900 (has links)
Originally presented as the author's Thesis--University College, London, 1995. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Earnings properties and accounting valuation in the euro zoneGrambovas, Christos A. January 2003 (has links)
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The Market Value Implications of Pension Asset AllocationTurner, Elizabeth H. 29 May 2013 (has links)
Pension funds have been part of the private sector since the 1850’s. Defined Benefit pension plans [DB], where a company promises to make regular contributions to investment accounts held for participating employees in order to pay a promised lifelong annuity, are significant capital markets participants, amounting to 2.3 trillion dollars in 2010 (Federal Reserve Board, 2013). In 2006, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.158 (SFAS 158), Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postemployment Plans, shifted information concerning funding status and pension asset/liability composition from disclosure in the footnotes to recognition in the financial statements. I add to the literature by being the first to examine the effect of recent pension reform during the financial crisis of 2008-09.
This dissertation is comprised of three related essays. In my first essay, I investigate whether investors assign different pricing multiples to the various classes of pension assets when valuing firms. The pricing multiples on all classes of assets are significantly different from each other, but only investments in bonds and equities were value-relevant during the recent financial crisis. Consistent with investors viewing pension liabilities as liabilities of the firm, the pricing multiples on pension liabilities are significantly larger than those on non-pension liabilities. The only pension costs significantly associated with firm value are actual rate of return and interest expense.
In my second essay, I investigate the role of accruals in predicting future cash flows, extending the Barth et al. (2001a) model of the accrual process. Using market value of equity as a proxy for cash flows, the results of this study suggest that aggregate accounting amounts mask how the components of earnings affect investors’ ability to predict future cash flows. Disaggregating pension earnings components and accruals results in an increase in predictive power. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, however, investors placed a greater (and negative) weight on the incremental information contained in the individual components of accruals. The inferences are robust to alternative specifications of accruals.
Finally, in my third essay I investigate how investors view under-funded plans. On average, investors: view deficits arising from under-funded plans as belonging to the firm; reward firms with fully or over-funded pension plans; and encourage those funds with unfunded pension plans to become funded. Investors also encourage conservative pension asset allocations to mitigate firm risk, and smaller firms are perceived as being better able to handle the risk associated with underfunded plans. During the financial crisis of 2008-2009 underfunded status had a lower negative association with market value.
In all three models, there are significant differences in pre- and post- SFAS 158 periods. These results are robust to various scenarios of the timing of the financial crisis and an alternative measure of funding.
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Student perceptions of relevanceKatt, James A. 01 April 2003 (has links)
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