Executive compensation has increased dramatically over the past 15 years, but so has forced CEO turnover. We argue that part of the development of CEO pay can be explained by the adverse consequences that forced turnover implies for a CEO. We find that for the CEOs of the largest US corporations, a one percentage point increase in exogenous turnover risk is associated with $40,000 to $90,000 mo...

The current multi-stakeholder process to define the Do Not Track standard has considered inputs from many parties, including browser vendors, network advertisers, privacy researchers, and the government. However, we feel that average users, the millions of people who will be directly affected by a Do Not Track standard, have been underrepresented. These are the users whose information is collec...

A bit later   DSRs came into being, aiming at explaining morphosyntactic behavior of a word – structures uniting information about ,  ,  and  (Dowty 1979, Wierzbicka 1980). “Since verbs individuate and name events <...>, theories of predicate decomposition are often taken to be theories of the basic  .” (Levin, Rappaport Hovav 2...

[C]ausal statements are commonly made in some context, against a background which includes the assumption of some causal field. A causal statement will be the answer to a causal question, and the question ‘What caused this explosion?’ can be expanded into ‘What made the difference between those times, or those cases, within a certain range, in which no such explosion occurred, and this case in ...

Scarabaeinae specimens were collected with the use of pitfall traps baited with human excrement, rotten meat and rotting banana, between May 2009 and April 2010, in three forest fragments in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 'Morro do Elefante' (MOEL), 'Morro do Cerrito' (MOCE) and 'Campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria' (UFSM). A total of 19,699 individuals belonging to 33 specie...