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Charles III University of Madrid
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About: Charles III University of Madrid is a education organization based out in Madrid, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 6016 authors who have published 17281 publications receiving 316980 citations. The organization is also known as: UC3M & University Carlos III of Madrid.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use behavioral theory to show that family firms are risk-averse and risk-wary at the same time, and that the predictions of behavioral theory differ depending on family ownership.
Abstract: This paper challenges the prevalent notion that family-owned firms are more risk averse than publicly owned firms. Using behavioral theory, we argue that for family firms, the primary reference point is the loss of their socioemotional wealth, and to avoid those losses, family firms are willing to accept a significant risk to their performance; yet at the same time, they avoid risky business decisions that might aggravate that risk. Thus, we propose that the predictions of behavioral theory differ depending on family ownership. We confirm our hypotheses using a population of 1,237 family-owned olive oil mills in Southern Spain who faced the choice during a 54-year period of becoming a member of a cooperative, a decision associated with loss of family control but lower business risk, or remaining independent, which preserves the family's socioemotional wealth but greatly increases its performance hazard. As shown in this study, family firms may be risk willing and risk averse at the same time.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is presented, with a rigorous mathematical treatment, specific numerical methods, and many variations and extensions of the original model that have appeared in the last few years.
Abstract: Synchronization phenomena in large populations of interacting elements are the subject of intense research efforts in physical, biological, chemical, and social systems. A successful approach to the problem of synchronization consists of modeling each member of the population as a phase oscillator. In this review, synchronization is analyzed in one of the most representative models of coupled phase oscillators, the Kuramoto model. A rigorous mathematical treatment, specific numerical methods, and many variations and extensions of the original model that have appeared in the last few years are presented. Relevant applications of the model in different contexts are also included.
2,864 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, an error-correction mechanism (ECM) test is proposed for cointegration in a single-equation framework where the regressors are weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest.
Abstract: A new test is proposed for cointegration in a single-equation framework where the regressors are weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest. The test is denoted as an error-correction mechanism (ECM) test and is based upon the ordinary least squares coefficient of the lagged dependent variable in an autoregressive distributed lag model augmented with leads of the regressors. The limit distributions of the standardized coeffi cient and t-ratio versions of the ECM tests are obtained and critical values are provided. These limit distributions do not depend upon nuisance parameters but they depend on the number of regressors. Finally, we compare their power properties with those of other cointegration tests available in the literature and find the circumstances under which the ECM tests have a better performance.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of a firm's intangible resources in mediating the relationship between corporate responsibility and financial performance and concluded that there is no direct relationship between corpora responsibility and performance.
Abstract: This paper examines the effects of a firm's intangible resources in mediating the relationship between corporate responsibility and financial performance. We hypothesize that previous empirical findings of a positive relationship between social and financial performance may be spurious because the researchers failed to account for the mediating effects of intangible resources. Our results indicate that there is no direct relationship between corporate responsibility and financial performance—merely an indirect relationship that relies on the mediating effect of a firm's intangible resources. We demonstrate our theoretical contention with the use of a database comprising 599 companies from 28 countries. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
1,420 citations
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University of Edinburgh1, University of Greifswald2, University of London3, Queen Mary University of London4, University of Trieste5, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University6, University of Tartu7, National Institutes of Health8, University of Oxford9, Johns Hopkins University10, Erasmus University Rotterdam11, University of Verona12, University of Iceland13, University of Otago14, Uppsala University15, University of Lübeck16, University of Split17, Harvard University18, University Hospital of Lausanne19, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich20, University of Auckland21, VU University Amsterdam22, University of Regensburg23, Max Planck Society24, Greifswald University Hospital25, University of Helsinki26, Charles III University of Madrid27, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute28, University College London29, Leiden University30, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart31, University of Bern32, University of Freiburg33
TL;DR: Interactions between body mass index (BMI) and common genetic variants affecting serum urate levels, genome-wide, and regression-type analyses in a non BMI-stratified overall sample suggested a role for N-glycan biosynthesis as a prominent urate-associated pathway in the lean stratum.
Abstract: We tested for interactions between body mass index (BMI) and common genetic variants affecting serum urate levels, genome-wide, in up to 42569 participants. Both stratified genome-wide association (GWAS) analyses, in lean, overweight and obese individuals, and regression-type analyses in a non BMI-stratified overall sample were performed. The former did not uncover any novel locus with a major main effect, but supported modulation of effects for some known and potentially new urate loci. The latter highlighted a SNP at RBFOX3 reaching genome-wide significant level (effect size 0.014, 95% CI 0.008-0.02, Pinter= 2.6 x 10-8). Two top loci in interaction term analyses, RBFOX3 and ERO1LB-EDARADD, also displayed suggestive differences in main effect size between the lean and obese strata. All top ranking loci for urate effect differences between BMI categories were novel and most had small magnitude but opposite direction effects between strata. They include the locus RBMS1-TANK (men, Pdifflean-overweight= 4.7 x 10-8), a region that has been associated with several obesity related traits, and TSPYL5 (men, Pdifflean-overweight= 9.1 x 10-8), regulating adipocytes-produced estradiol. The top-ranking known urate loci was ABCG2, the strongest known gout risk locus, with an effect halved in obese compared to lean men (Pdifflean-obese= 2 x 10-4). Finally, pathway analysis suggested a role for N-glycan biosynthesis as a prominent urate-associated pathway in the lean stratum. These results illustrate a potentially powerful way to monitor changes occurring in obesogenic environment.
1,293 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Mauricio Terrones | 118 | 760 | 61202 |
José Jalife | 94 | 432 | 37933 |
Wolfgang Karl Härdle | 79 | 783 | 28934 |
Joaquín Dopazo | 75 | 396 | 24790 |
Alvis Brazma | 69 | 214 | 37252 |
Andrea Massa | 69 | 764 | 15897 |
Benjamin A. Carreras | 67 | 435 | 16216 |
Peter M. Robinson | 67 | 341 | 21787 |
Maria Varela | 66 | 508 | 17090 |
Luis R. Gomez-Mejia | 64 | 185 | 24783 |
Aurelio Tobias | 62 | 306 | 15554 |
M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia | 62 | 262 | 14825 |
Starr Roxanne Hiltz | 62 | 287 | 19701 |
Michiel Steyaert | 62 | 576 | 16219 |
Filip Johnsson | 61 | 396 | 11693 |