Brent Spar or Broken Spur?

Broken hand or broken nose: a case report.

ASAC 2005 Brent McKenzie

The focus of this empirical study is to present the findings of a cross-cultural comparison between Canadian and Estonian university students and their perceptions of retail practices. The findings of this research indicate a level of commonality in retail shopping perceptions between both groups as well as non-trivial differences in both how shopping practice, in terms of the construct structu...

Task Parallelism in Spar

In this paper we will give a small introduction to Spar, a programming language for semi-automatic parallel programming. Spar, a Java derivative is being developed as part of the Automap project, which aims to create completely automatic mappings for code and data at either compile time or runtime. We will present how Spar supports task-parallel programming and how it interacts with the user or...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart syndrome.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy mimics acute coronary syndrome and is accompanied by reversible left ventricular apical ballooning in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery stenosis. In Japanese, "takotsubo" means "fishing pot for trapping octopus," and the left ventricle of a patient diagnosed with this condition resembles that shape. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which is transient ...

Does the media spotlight burn or spur innovation?

We examine the effect of media coverage on firm innovation. Using a comprehensive dataset of corporate news coverage from 2000 to 2009, we show that there is a negative relation between media coverage and firm innovation. Our identification tests suggest that the effect of media coverage on innovation is causal. We further find supports for two economic mechanisms underlying the negative innova...