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Size Effect

The relative advantage the size of a company has on returns. Some analysts suggest that investing in a small company can lead to a higher return than investing in a large company, even after accounting for unsystematic risk.

size effect

The effect of firm size, as measured by market value, on investment returns. Some studies indicate that investments in small companies provide higher risk-adjusted returns.

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"The positive side is that you can use the portion size effect strategically, for example by serving larger portions of fruits and vegetables to increase their consumption.

Preschoolers not good at resisting large portion of food, says study

This implies that the reported size effect in literature could be either because the market was inefficient or because there was statistical distortion in the process of analysis.

SIZE EFFECT IN INDIAN STOCK MARKET : AN ANOMALY OR A METHODOLOGICAL ARTIFACT

Chen, "Grain size effect on the springback behavior of the microtube in the press bending process," Materials and Manufacturing Processes, vol.

Analysis of Springback Behaviour in Micro Flexible Rolling of Crystalline Materials

[11-13] observed that the crack opening displacement w0 of the critical crack tip with the change of the specimen size was the main factor that caused the size effect on the fracture energy of concrete.

Fracture Energy Analysis of Concrete considering the Boundary Effect of Single-Edge Notched Beams

The question of grain size effects still remained; the present study aims to answer this question by investigating bulk nanocrystalline tungsten of different grain sizes.

Grain Size Dependence of Elastic Moduli in Nanocrystalline Tungsten

At microscale, size effect may be significant and even dominate the behavior of structures.

Flexoelectric Effect on Vibration of Piezoelectric Microbeams Based on a Modified Couple Stress Theory

Presented at work method of tool roughness describing using a sinusoidal wave, allows revealing changes in the deformation process of metals in microscale - size effect, induced by heightened influence of a tool roughness.

Numerical solutions of metal plastic flow in compression tests with sinusoidal profile of die roughness

However, the size effect is stronger than the value effect.

A five-factor asset pricing model: Empirical evidence from Egypt

Noting that the coefficient associated with LNP becomes significant again for the first time when the liquidity filter is set equal to the 5th market cap decile, it seems that the top 68 odd shares in terms of market cap may well be the minimum point for the size effect to be observed on the JSE, given that the size effect is captured by LNP as the MVLOG factor is not yet significant at this point.

The impact of liquidity on the cross section of equity returns on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange

where [x.sub.1] and [x.sub.2] are the strengths of members of volumes [V.sub.1] and [V.sub.2], respectively, and s is the size effect parameter.

Mechanical properties of Chinese larch (Larix gmelini) dimension lumber

In this sense, we know that less skilled individuals are also less effective in arithmetic facts retrieval, calculation strategies and, in addition, they also show a larger problem size effect than their counterparts (e.g., Hecht, 1999; Jackson & Coney, 2007b; LeFevre, Bisanz, et al, 1996; LeFevre et al, 1996; Thevenot et al, 2007).

Effects of numerical surface form in arithmetic word problems/Efectos del formato numerico en problemas aritmeticos

These include statistical mechanical effects as well as quantum mechanical effects for example the quantum size effect" where the electronic properties of solids are altered with great reductions in particle size.