This study examines share price reactions to 231 work-family human resource policies adopted by Fortune 500 companies and announced in theWall Street Journal between 1971 and 1996. Consistent with past research, the results suggest that firm announcements of work-family initiatives positively affected shareholder return. The authors also empirically test three hypotheses concerning how the timi...

Applying weighted network measures to distance matrices Many approaches to the analysis of weighted networks are not designed for fully connected weighted networks. However, as any distance matrix between objects is a fully connected weighted network, such networks are extremely common. In earlier work we derived an approach for the analysis of weighted networks which also works on fully connec...

The paper discusses the variation of a surname that currently sounds like Dianov over history one family. Different variants were retrieved from official documents preserved in family archive and State Archive Sverdlovsk Region, as well private correspondence 18th–20th centuries, which helped restore chronology changes. authors suggest their own hypothesis about original form deriving personal ...

Our institution, changed from Koşuyolu Hospital of Asthma to Koşuyolu Cardiology and Research Hospital by Kemal Beyazit, MD on February 1985, has trained hundreds of cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and cardiovascular anesthesiologist within the last 30 years under leadership of Prof. Cevat Yakut, MD, who has taken over this mission since the beginning. These cardiologists, cardiovascular...

The process of recognizing the postal codes or zip codes in a handwritten address can be aided by many sources of external knowledge. Ci ty and state names are obvious examples that can be used in conjunction w i t h a city-state-zip directory to provide evidence about digits in a zip code. This paper describes an extension of this methodology that uses knowledge about legal street names and su...