In 2008, the United States government mandated transition of internationally managed HIV care and treatment programs to local country ownership. Three case studies illustrate the US Health Resources Services Administration's fiscal assessment and technical assistance (TA) processes to strengthen local organizations' capabilities to absorb and manage United States government funding. Review of i...

This study explores how firms’ ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PEbacked firms). The...

this paper addresses the mixed integer reliability redundancy allocation problems to determine simultaneous allocation of optimal reliability and redundancy level of components based on three objective goals. system engineering principles suggest that the best design is the design that maximizes the system operational effectiveness and at the same time minimizes the total cost of ownership (tco...

the conflict between investors' interests and managers is an important issue which has been attracted researchers attentions in last decade. according to the related literature, corporate governance body of research has offered alternatives for solving this problem such as ownership structure. this research investigates the effect of ownership structure on firm performance. the factors whi...

We investigate two recommendation approaches suitable for online multimedia sharing services. Our first approach, UserRank, recommends items by global interestingness irrespective of user preferences and is based on the analysis of ownership and evaluation link structure. We also present a personalized interestingness algorithm that combines UserRank with collaborative filtering which enables a...

The Berne Convention and the national laws on intellectual property fully apply to PRO instruments. The identification of and access to an original PRO instrument is often associated with copyright ownership. This is the copyright holder of the instrument who will control its access (distribution and reproduction), its adaptation or modification, and its translation. Copyright is a means to pro...

We investigate the impact of stock-based compensation on managerial ownership. We find that equity compensation succeeds in increasing incentives of lowerownership managers, but higher-ownership managers negate much of its impact by selling previously owned shares. When executives exercise options to acquire stock, nearly all of the shares are sold. Our results illuminate dynamic aspects of man...

We consider an industry where an upstream …rm determines the size of a network used by two downstream …rms. We contrast ownership unbundling and legal unbundling, where the upstream …rm maximizes its total pro…t, including the pro…t of its downstream subsidiary(ies), but does not discriminate between them. Furthermore, each downstream subsidiary maximizes its own pro…t. We show that ownership s...