From 1995 to 1998, more than 90 percent of mid-range IPOs were charged underwriter fees, or spreads, of exactly seven percent, even though evidence suggests that economies of scale in the size of the offering should allow for lower fees. Chen and Ritter (2000) offer collusion as a possible explanation based on empirical analysis and observation. Alternatively, we investigate whether the spreads...

Two dimensional slope profile morphometric investigation in a part of the land failure prone Garhwal region of the Lesser Himalaya, Tehri district, U. P., India, indicates that the landslip morphology is closely related to the dominant movement processes active in this terrain. Technique developed for the morphometric analysis of landslips involves the use of five morphometric indices. Each ind...

In this paper, we propose a new estimator: the Slope SVM, which minimizes the hinge loss with the Slope penalization introduced by [3]. We study the asymptotical behavior of the `2 error between the theoretical hinge loss minimizer and the Slope estimator. We prove Slope achieves a (k/n) log(p/k) rate with high probability and in expectation under the Weighted Restricted Eigenvalue Condition. T...

the control of hydraulic jump through thin-crested sills in a trapezoidal channel was studied theoretically as well as experimentally. the experiments were conducted in a specially designed stilling basin for 1:1 side slope. the results show that for a given side slope, end sill increases the stability of the jump within the stilling basin. it also causes a 13-15 percent reduction in the length...

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-derived measures of tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) have been recently shown to significantly correlate with the widely used method for noninvasively assessing vascular endothelial function, flow-mediated dilation (FMD). The purpose of this study was to examine the intraday and interday reliability of the reperfusion slope of StO2 (slope 2 StO2) and compare it ...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective evaluation. PURPOSE To analyze the effect of T1 slope on degree of degeneration in patients with cervical disc degeneration. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The T1 slope is well known parameter that may be very useful in evaluating sagittal balance. There are no reports on the analysis of the relationship between T1 slope and cervical disc degeneration. We hypothesized tha...

B. A. DEHORITY. 1960. Effect of starch on the digestion of cellulose in vitro and in vivo by rumen microorganisms. Jour. Animal Sci. 19 (4) : 1268-1269. KAMSTRA, L. D., A. L. MOXON AND 0. G. BENTLEY. 1958. The effect of stage of maturity and lignification on the digestion of cellulose in forage plants by rumen microorganisms in vitro. Jour. Animal Sci. 17 (1) : 199-208. LE FEVRE, C. F. AND L. D...

Accurate mapping of temporal changes in urban land use and land cover (LULC) is important for monitoring urban expansion and changes in LULC, urban planning, environmental management, and environmental modeling. In this study, we present a feature-based approach of the decision tree classification (FBA-DTC) method for mapping LULC based on spectral and topographic information. Landsat 5 TM and ...