This paper analyzes the impact of different disclosure regimes on corporate decisionmaking during initial public offering. Specifically, it examines how disclosure rules affect firms’ incentives to acquire forward-looking information, their disclosure practices and investment strategies. The disclosure regimes examined are Non-Disclosure, Voluntary, and Mandatory Disclosure Regimes. The analysi...

The flow regime is regarded by many aquatic ecologists to be the key driver of river and floodplain wetland ecosystems. We have focused this literature review around four key principles to highlight the important mechanisms that link hydrology and aquatic biodiversity and to illustrate the consequent impacts of altered flow regimes: Firstly, flow is a major determinant of physical habitat in st...

There is an asymmetry between the mass of the electric charges, for example proton and electron, can understood by the asymmetrical Planck Distribution Law. This temperature dependent energy distribution is asymmetric around the maximum intensity, where the annihilation of matter and antimatter is a high probability event. The asymmetric sides are creating different frequencies of electromagnet...

Contemporary information systems are generally built on the principle of segregation of data and processes. Data are modeled in terms of entities and relationships while processes are modeled as chains of events and activities. This situation engenders an impedance mismatch between the process layer, the business logic layer and the data layer. We discuss some of the issues that this impedance ...

When Archie Cochrane, Fred Moore and I conceived of trying to relate mortality in developed countries to measures of health service provision little did we imagine that it would set a hare running 20 years into the future. To us this was an amusing correlational study in the spirit of McKeown and Illich—those sceptics of medical prowess. That our work has been reprinted in two collections of ep...