This article investigates the relation between dividend payout policy and financial constraints, focusing on Italian SMEs 2015 2019 adopting credit ratings as a measure of access to external resources. According our findings, there is positive firm solvency payment dividends, suggesting that, when companies’ constraints are higher, we can expect lower odds that they will pay out dividends. Neve...

Segmentation of femurs in Anterior-Posterior x-ray images is very important for fracture detection, computer-aided surgery and surgical planning. Existing methods do not perform well in segmenting bones in x-ray images due to the presence of large amount of spurious edges. This paper presents an atlas-based approach for automatic segmentation of femurs in x-ray images. A robust global alignment...