This paper tests agency theory using unique entrepreneurial effort and financing choices data. Focusing on entrepreneurs as a special type of agent, the paper develops a modified principal-agent model within a private firm setting. In line with the typical agency theory prediction, this model suggests that the severity of entrepreneur moral hazard relates to the firm’s capital structure. Specia...

The purpose of this paper is to report quantitative data and models for the flow stress computer simulation friction stir welding (FSW). In paper, stresses commercial 6061 aluminum alloy at typical temperatures in FSW are investigated quantitatively by using hot compression tests. during determined reviewing literature data. measured stress, strain rate temperature tests fitted a Sellars–Tegart...

The goal of dependence logic is to establish a basic theory of dependence and independence underlying such seemingly unrelated subjects as causality, random variables, bound variables in logic, database theory, the theory of social choice, and even quantum physics. There is an avalanche of new results in this field demonstrating remarkable convergence. The concepts of (in)dependence in the diff...

In this paper, three theories of progress and the aim of science are discussed: (i) the theory of progress as increasing explanatory power, advocated by Popper in The logic of scientific discovery (1935/1959); (ii) the theory of progress as approximation to the truth, introduced by Popper in Conjectures and refutations (1963); (iii) the theory of progress as a steady increase of competing alter...

The Suomi-NPP VIIRS Land Team# with contributions from: Simon Hook (JPL); Mark Friedl (BU); Damien Sulla-Menashe (BU); Josh Gray (BU); Crystal Schaaf (UMB); Zhuosen Wang (UMB); Tomoaki Miura (U. Hawaii); Alfredo Huete (UA/UTS); James Maslanik (U. Colorado); Mark Tschudi (U. Colorado); Dan Baldwin (U. Colorado); Jeffrey R. Key (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR); Xuanji Wang (U. Wisconsin); Yinghui Liu (U. Wisco...