Cross-border acquisitions are less likely to be completed when the acquirer is from a more developed country compared to the target than when the acquirer is from a less developed country. DePamphilis, in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities (Tenth Edition), 2019 Factors Affecting Deal Completion RatesД®mpirical research suggests that the likelihood a deal will be completed and the duration between public announcement and closing can in part be explained by the level of development of the acquirerвЂ™s home country relative to the level of development of the targetвЂ™s home country. Results of this strand of research are gathered in the World Database of Happiness (2013), which currently involves some 20В 000 findings, some 5000 вЂdistributionalвЂ™ findings on how much people like the life they live, and about 15В 000 вЂcorrelationalвЂ™ findings on things that go together with subjective enjoyment of life.Дonald M. In all these research, the leading question is what makes people subjectively happy with the major motivation being to advance this kind of happiness. The number of scientific publications on happiness has grown steeply since the 1960s, as can be seen in FigureВ 2. Subjective enjoyment of life became a side topic in medical вЂquality-of-life researchвЂ™ that developed in the 1980s and in both вЂpositive psychologyвЂ™ and вЂhappiness economics,вЂ™ which appeared around the year 2000. The number of papers on this subject in the journal вЂSocial Indicators ResearchвЂ™ grew so much that the specialized вЂJournal of Happiness StudiesвЂ™ was split off in 2000. Finally, given the importance of expressing emotions facially in everyday communication, and the importance of first impressions in numerous situations (e.g., interviews), research should explore options for training individuals to do better in facial emotion expression, such as producing more intense expressions, or more situationally appropriate expressions.Д®mpirical research on life satisfaction took off as a topic in вЂsocial indicators research,вЂ™ which emerged in the 1970s. Likewise, facial emotion expression ability and related socioemotional competencies may be deficient in individuals with particular mental disorders (e.g., autism, psychopathy), suggesting these populations provide a unique opportunity to study individual differences in facial emotion expression. Future research should explore the relation between explicit facial emotion expression and incidential facial mimicry, in addition to their relations with similar constructs. Research produced thus far, however, suggest there are many promising perspectives for this field, including the applied ones. Existing studies suggest the measurement of facial expressions is feasible however, given the paucity of adequate study designs and measurement tools, much research is needed on this topic.

Oliver Wilhelm, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015 ConclusionsД®mpirical research to date suggests that studying facial emotion expressions is a fruitful line of research for assessing emotion-related abilities. In this multitude of studies, it is possible to distinguish between empirical research вЂinвЂ™ medical ethics and empirical research вЂofвЂ™ medical ethics.ДЄndrea Hildebrandt. It contains studies that describe the moral experiences, attitudes, wishes, desires, beliefs, views, and reasoning of respondents and it contains data about social interactions, health care systems, and ethical sensitivity. It should be clear that empirical evidence in medical ethics draws from very heterogeneous sources. The aim of this research is to generate, analyze, and interpret reliable and valid information or data about the total experience of all members of the society or the group under study. Under empirical research in medical ethics, or the synonyms empiricalвЂ“ethical research and ethics-related empirical research, we understand the systematic investigation of a particular problem in the field of medical ethics by using a research methodology (e.g., a qualitative or a quantitative approach) that has methodological roots in the social sciences. Borry, in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition), 2012 Empirical evidence and medical ethics

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