Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDeterminants of Poster Reputation on Internet Stock Message BoardsYing ZhangProblem statement: I investigate the determinants of poster reputation in a user-rewarding reputation system on Thelion!WallStreetPit stock message board. My empirical analyses deal with two hypotheses: First, is a poster’s reputation affected by his/her characteristics at the time the message was posted? Second, is reputation also associated with the characteristics of the stock to which the message refers? Approach: To … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2009 · 7,664 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordRole of Evaporation in Degrading the "Oil Lakes"Al Rashed Ahamad, Colin BarkerProblem statement: Oil Spills are degraded by aerobic bacteria, water washing, evaporation and oxidation. In the absence of water the first two of these processes cannot operate. This is the situation in the low rainfall environment of the Kuwaiti desert where oil lakes still persist 20 years after the initial spills. The oils contain longer chain n-alkanes but have lost … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 11 Jul 2011 · 6,747 accessesView PDFCite