My thesis examines the operating performance and financial statement disclosures of firms that restructure their business strategy, structure or operations and, as a result, record restructuring charges in their financial statements. Chapter One examines three questions related to corporate restructuring and firm performance. First, do firms that take restructuring charges experience improvemen...

our research group has - during the past 15 years - developed and tested internet interventions for more than 20 separate conditions totaling in close to 50 published randomized controlled trials. the studies cover a wide range of diagnoses including depression, social anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and pathological gambling. the treatments have mostly been based on cogn...

Cognitive therapy seeks to help a client overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thought patterns. 1. fig. 1 shows a group cognitive therapy session Clinicians use therapy sessions to help clients address and change their negative cognitive biases.  Cognitive therapy (CT) is one of the therapeutic approaches within the larger group of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT...

The paper addresses a new class of combinatorial problems which consist in restructuring of solutions (as structures) in combinatorial optimization. Two main features of the restructuring process are examined: (i) a cost of the restructuring, (ii) a closeness to a goal solution. This problem corresponds to redesign (improvement, upgrade) of modular systems or solutions. The restructuring approa...

Array Restructuring for Cache Locality by Shun-Tak Albert Leung Chairperson of Supervisory Committee: Professor John Zahorjan Department of Computer Science and Engineering Caches are used in almost every modern processor design to reduce the long memory access latency, which is increasingly a bottleneck to program performance. For caches to be effective, programs must exhibit good data localit...

This paper estimates the price for restructuring risk in the U.S. corporate bond market during 1999-2005. Comparing quotes from default swap (CDS) contracts with a restructuring event and without, we find that the average premium for restructuring risk represents 6% to 8% of the swap rate without restructuring. We show that the restructuring premium depends on firmspecific balance-sheet and mac...

Knowledge restructuring occurs when people shift to a new strategy or representation during learning. Although knowledge restructuring can frequently be experimentally encouraged, there are instances in which people resist restructuring and continue to use an expedient but imperfect initial strategy. The authors report 3 category learning experiments that reconciled those conflicting outcomes b...

Students' lack of confidence in completing various assignments given by the teacher shows that students need more self-confidence. This study aims to determine effectiveness group counseling with cognitive restructuring techniques on students' quantitative research uses a quasi-experimental approach using Nonequivalent Control Group design. The population is 314 from two different classes. Ten ...