Prior studies have documented that stock returns are abnormally high during the years following share repurchases and abnormally low following seasoned equity offerings, relative to various benchmarks of expected returns. While we confirm this evidence in the event data as of 2002, we do not find robust long-run abnormal returns following either stock repurchases or issuances after 2002. Instit...

The future construction of utility-scale solar power plants in Australia will present challenges to integrate these plants into the existing electricity industry. This paper considers the likely solar forecasting requirements to facilitate the integration of photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal plants into the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM). Many market participants may be...

Caves and rockshelters are found all over the world, and they have been frequently occupied throughout prehistory and early history. In many areas of Europe, some of these natural places are still used as sites of worship and as shelter against the elements. There is great variability in their use. Some appear to only have traces of short occupations, while others have thick cultural deposits, ...

Malignant tumors of the appendix are rare and are histologically similar to those arising elsewhere in the intestines. The frequency of specific tumor types and the clinical presentation of symptomatic tumors are, however, significantly different. Before surgery, correct diagnosis of a malignant appendiceal tumor is rare; most tumors are diagnosed by a pathologist while examining an appendectom...

The Andorra Kernel Language (AKL) is introduced. It is shown how AKL provides the programming paradigms of both Prolog and GHC. This is the original goal of the design. However, it has also been possible to provide capabilities beyond that of Prolog and GHC. There are means to structure search, more powerful than plain backtracking. It is possible to encapsulate search in concurrent reactive pr...

Computer Aided Translation (CAT) Tools are essential in the current market. However, one ofthe main disadvantages of most commonly-used CAT tools, like Trados, MemoQ, and more is thatthey not accessible to visually-impaired translators. This critical disadvantage limits their jobopportunities market.Most studies that conducted on accessibility tools for differentlanguage pairs rather than Arabi...

an in vitro experiment was conducted to study the effect of non-fiber carbohydrates (nfc) on ruminaldisappearance kinetics of dry matter (dm) and neutral detergent fiber (ndf) of alfalfa hay, wheat bran andunmolassed sugar beet pulp. non-supplemented or nfc supplemented samples [70 mg/g dm of each feedsample as sucrose (su) or starch (st) or su + st as 1:1] were incubated in bottles containing ...

This work is devoted to the legal analysis of implementation Bologna process in Kazakheducation system. After signing agreement on Process, Kazakhstanhas intensified international cooperation field higher education. The integration country'shigher education system into global educational space one long — term strategic priorities ofthe republic. A significant number bilateral intergovernmental ...

this paper expands a model different from existing models to analyze the cost and benefit of areinforced concrete solar chimney power plant (rcscpp) built in the desert regions of iran.based on the model and some assumptions for values of parameters, this paper calculates totalnet present value (tnpv) and the minimum electricity price in each phase by dividing the wholeservice period into four ...