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Ronald W Best

University of West Georgia
Verified email at westga.edu
Cited by 717

Does information asymmetry explain the diversification discount?

RW Best, CW Hodges, BX Lin - Journal of Financial Research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the diversification discount while controlling for differences in information
asymmetry between diversified and nondiversified firms. We show that both diversified and …

[HTML][HTML] KBase: the United States department of energy systems biology knowledgebase

…, S Ramakrishnan, P Ranjan, PC Ronald… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
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On the front-line: Teachers as active observers of pupils' mental health

DM Rothì, G Leavey, R Best - Teaching and teacher education, 2008 - Elsevier
… Additionally, while mental health professionals were suggested as the best people to deliver
such teacher training, there was a concern is that any such training should be focused on …

[PDF][PDF] Education

R Best, JV Kahn - Spirituality and the Whole Child, London: Cassell, 1996 - academia.edu
… Finally, we are grateful to our wives, Solveig Ager Best and … points is known as the “ lime of
best fit,” or the regression line. On this … The slope of the regression line, or line of best fit, is not …

Alternative information sources and the information content of bank loans

R Best, H Zhang - The Journal of Finance, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the information content of bank loan agreements. We differentiate
borrowers according to financial analysts' percentage earnings forecast errors and most recent …

Male circumcision: assessment of health benefits and risks

S Moses, RC Bailey, AR Ronald - Sexually transmitted infections, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… In order for individuals and their families to make an informed decision, they should be
provided with the best available evidence regarding the known benefits and risks. …

New directions in social disorganization theory

EK Charis, W Ronald - Recent developments in criminological …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter describes several methodological innovations that enhance researchers' ability
to test key propositions and to refine causal models relevant to social disorganization theory…

The DOE systems biology knowledgebase (KBase)

…, GA Price, S Ramakrishnan, P Ranjan, PC Ronald… - BioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
The US Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) is an open-source
software and data platform designed to meet the grand challenge of systems biology — …

Ron: Reverse connection with objectness prior networks for object detection

T Kong, F Sun, A Yao, H Liu, M Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
RON, an efficient and effective framework for generic object detection. Our motivation is to
smartly associate the best … Under fully convolutional architecture, RON mainly focuses on two …

Linking teacher and student learning to improve professional development in systemic reform

BJ Fishman, RW Marx, S Best, RT Tal - Teaching and teacher education, 2003 - Elsevier
Professional development is key to standards-based reform, yet there is little empirical evidence
upon which to base decisions of design or implementation. This paper presents a model …