In this paper we investigate the relationship between generational socioemotional wealth (SEW) and debt maturity structure in private family firms of GIPSI countries for period 2010-2018. This appears to be quite an important issue study, given that SEW is a peculiar aspect its impact on structure, still relatively unexplored, likely change according generation running business. We show importa...

Because of its simplicity, the vertex pair contraction operation became very popular in mesh simplification. It allows for topological changes during simplification. In this paper we propose the use of the additional pair contractions of a vertex and an edge or a triangle and of two edges. The generalized contraction operations have several advantages over simple vertex pair contraction. They a...

This paper presents "Scythe and Sew", a software environment for analyzing lighting simulation data. It provides a spreadsheet like infrastructure for manipulating high-dimensional simulation results. It allows users to both import and create lighting simulation data, or patterns, into a workspace for inspection. A composition area allows the user to perform algebraic operations on the patterns...

This paper presents an Enhanced Waveform Interpolative (EWI) speech coder at 4 kbps. The system incorporates novel features such as analysis-by-synthesis (AbS) vector-quantization (VQ) of the dispersion-phase, AbS optimization of the slowly evolving waveform (SEW), a special pitch search for transitions, and switched-predictive analysis-by-synthesis gain VQ. Subjective quality tests indicate th...

In this paper we discuss two image-based 3D modeling methods based on a multi-resolution evolution of a volumetric function’s levelset. In the former the role of the levelset implosion is to fuse (“sew” and “stitch”) together several partial reconstructions (depth maps) into a closed model. In the latter the levelset’s implosion is steered directly by the texture mismatch between views. Both so...

The Cox-Maze IV procedure has replaced the "cut-and-sew" technique of the original Cox-Maze operation with lines of ablation created using bipolar radiofrequency (RF) and cryothermal energy devices. In select patients, this procedure can be performed through a right mini-thoracotomy. This illustrated review is the first to detail the complete steps of the Cox-Maze IV procedure performed through...

* This research was supported by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Boas, R. P., Entire Functions (Sew York: Academic Press, 1954), p. 82. Ref. 1, page 221. 3 Besicovitch, A. S.>Alnzost Pe~ioclic Functions (Cambridge, 1932), p. 17. For comprehensive versions of this theorem, see also my papers "Abstrakte fastperiodische Funktionen," Acta llJath., 61, 149-184 (1933), and "A new ap...

Traumatic rupture of the descending thoracic aorta remains a leading cause of death following major blunt trauma. Management has evolved from uniformly performing emergent open repair with clamp and sew technique to include open repair with mechanical circulatory support, medical management and most recently, endovascular repair. This latter approach appears, in the short term, to be associated...

The Cox maze procedure developed originally in 1987 by Dr James Cox has evolved from a "cut and sew" surgical procedure, where the maze was applied using multiple surgical cuts, to an extensive use of surgical ablation technology where ablation lesions are placed with alternative energy sources (radiofrequency, cryothermy, microwave, and high-frequency ultrasound). Furthermore, the procedure ha...