Left-Overs and Non-People

Knowledge spill-overs, innovation and regional development

Ownership, Board Characteristics and Non-hostile Take-overs in the Uk: an Empirical and Predictive Analysis

This paper analyses the corporate governance mechanisms of a sample of companies that have been acquired by friendly take-over and those of a matching control sample that have not. It also uses a holdout sample to assess the model’s ability to correctly classify take-over candidates. The results show that the targets were poor performers and that there are significant governance differences bet...

Selected physiological and perceptual responses during a simulated limited overs century in non-elite batsmen.

Few studies have examined the impact of an increased physical demand on batting performance, especially over extended periods of play. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the physiological and perceptual responses of batsmen scoring a simulated limited overs century, and to link these to sprint times and accuracy of the impact of the ball on the bat. Seventeen male, university...

Spatial Spill-overs and Households Involvement in the Non-Farm Sector: Evidence from Rural Rwanda

This paper studies the effects of external economies of scale on households’ involvement in the non-farm sector. The focus of the paper is on the type of knowledge spill-overs that occur at the level of individuals; these relate to learning processes and non-market interactions. Nationally representative data on 8,100 households surveyed in 2006 and 2009 are used and unobserved heterogeneity an...

Comparing mental health of people with type I diabetes mellitus and non-diabetic people

  Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which widely affects individual health and   social performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the mental health of patients   with type I diabetes and non-diabetic individuals.   Materials and Methods: This was a comparative after-the-fact study conducted in 2011. The   participants included 50 patients with type I diabetes who were ...