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This study used Mind Wave, a brain wave–reading device from NeuroSky, to replace self-reporting measures in the examination of the effects of advertisement messages and understand audiences' underlying attention on the delivered ideas and its relation to the physiological process behind message framing for smoking cessation. A total of 130 undergraduate male students consisting of 65 smokers and 65 non-smokers participated in the between-subject experimental study. The results revealed that participants who are smokers and received positively framed messages showed higher attention on smoking cessation than the negatively framed group. In contrast, participants who are non-smokers and received negatively framed messages had better attention. This showed that the framed message strategy is a better option for public health-care advertising.

AbstractManuscript TypeEmpiricalResearch Question/IssueThis paper examines real estate transactions among Korean listed firms, their affiliated companies and controlling shareholders from 1999 to 2011. The goal of this study is to test whether the controlling individuals gain higher returns from the trades than the other parties in a persistent manner.Research Findings/InsightsInvestigating price changes across the transactions reveals that the controlling shareholders consistently earn higher returns than the listed firms, while this is not the case for the affiliated firms. The listed firms, in expectation of bleak potential in value growth, acquire real estate properties from their controlling shareholders while disposing of properties with promising prospect of growth in value. When the listed firms either buy or lease a property from controlling shareholders, the market value of the acquired property increases less than the leased.Theoretical/Academic ImplicationsAll of the findings confirm a tunneling nature of the listed firms' real estate transactions with their controlling shareholders.Practitioner/Policy ImplicationsThe findings show a possibility that listed firms and the controlling shareholders can plot property transactions so as to offer biased profits for the individuals at the expense of minority shareholders. Such profitability becomes viable by manipulating transaction timing and does not necessitate predatory pricing of the assets transferred.

This study examines substitution or complementarity relationships between discretionary loan loss provisions (LLP) and dividend signals. The statistical tests and results presented in this study indicate that bank managers may signal simultaneously with an accounting policy (i.e., discretionary LLP) and a financial policy (i.e., dividend change). This finding primarily points out the possibility that a bank manager with an incentive to mitigate asymmetric information can select multiple signals to maximize signaling effects. Thus, LLP signaling is a complementary (rather than a substitute) signaling device of dividend signaling.

"The book examines institutional innovation of urban regeneration in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai, three Chinese cities that have experienced sweeping changes in recent years, providing an ideal guide to the process of development and practices of urban regeneration in China. As a starting point, the book revisits relevant theoretical developments and the institutional experiences of urban regeneration in some Asian pioneer cities and regions, such as Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo and Singapore. Moving on to the Chinese mainland cities themselves, the core comparative study investigates the institutional systems, key policies, planning formulations and implementation paths in the urban regeneration process of the three cities. The author then reveals gains and losses in each city's institutional construction and reformation, as well as the underlying reasons for these. Drawing on these case studies and comparisons, the book puts forward some generic rules on the institutional innovation of urban regeneration, offering a valuable reference for other cities and regions. The book will appeal to scholars interested in urban regeneration and renewal, as well as urban planners, architects, policymakers, and urban development administrators"--

As the by-product of the one-child policy, the shidu have become a growing segment of the population. Their inherent characteristics, as well as their social relationships and means of interacting with the external environment, are issues that deserve our attention. Through compiling a virtual ethnology of the social media platform "Home of the Shidu", as well as describing interactive processes such as the shidu individuals' integration into and commiseration with the group, the collaborative defense of their rights, fragmentation within the community, and renewed legal defense efforts, the author analyzes the characteristics and mechanisms of the shidu and attempts to better understand the realities of their existence and demands.

The Teacher' s Quality of Work Life(QWL)factors were identified as respect needs,survival needs,security needs and self-actualization needs separately. This paper analyze rural teacher's QWL from these five dimensionalities, and combined with methods such as questionnaires, interviews, observations, empirical research on the quality of work life of rural primary and secondary school teachers in Shanxi Province, the findings indicate that the quality of life of rural primary and secondary school teachers in Shanxi Province is in the lower-middle level, mainly manifested in imbalances of economic income and workload, leisure life, family care and things like poor teaching physical environment, limited democratic participation and management, deficiency of relevant rights and interests protection, limited chances of professional development and self-realization. In addition, it discussed the possible solutions through the analysis of the present situation. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n4p39

As COVID-19 has created an unprecedented world, social workers in Korea are also dealing with the enormous changes. This reflective essay presents an update on current social work in the country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The essay also addresses challenges and concerns in the social welfare scenes in Korea, provides critical commentary and calls for action in international contexts.