Extant research shows that resources are significant to a firm’s choice of alliance formation. We focus on an important form of intangible resource—firm reputation—and examine how it affects a firm’s propensity to form alliances. We propose an inverted U-shaped relationship between a firm’s reputation and its likelihood of alliance formation, resulting from the opposing mechanisms of opportunit...

This thesis examines three questions in Corporate Finance. The first chapter investigates the effect of institutional ownership on the governance dynamics and behavior of firms. I exploit the exogenous change in equity index membership generated by the reconstitution of the Russell indices. Following reconstitution, I show that firms just included in the Russell1000 index have higher institutio...

The aim of the study was evaluation of residual deformity after neonatal septic arthritis of the hip. The patient was operatively treated by intertrochanteric osteotomy of valgisation of 350 with anterotation of 10 degrees and extension 25 degrees at age of nine years because of leg length discrepancy, changes in the femoral neck, coxa vara, plana and breva. It was delay in diagnosis and failur...

The physiology and pathology of different methods of capital punishment are described. Information about this physiology and pathology can be derived from observations on the condemned persons, postmortem examinations, physiological studies on animals undergoing similar procedures, and the literature on emergency medicine. It is difficult to know how much pain the person being executed feels or...

Output per employee hour in the manufacture of wood kitchen cabinets rose at an average annual rate of 2.1 percent between 1972 and 1982,1 or at virtually the same pace as for all manufacturing (2.0 percent) . However, annualized increases in both output and employee hours were greater for the industry (4.7 percent and 2.5 percent) than for total manufacturing (1 .4 percent and 0.5 percent) . F...

Whip use in horseracing is increasingly being questioned on ethical, animal welfare, social sustainability, and legal grounds. Despite this, there is weak evidence for whip use and its regulation by Stewards in Australia. To help address this, we characterised whip rule breaches recorded by Stewards using Stewards Reports and Race Diaries from 2013 and 2016 in New SouthWales (NSW) and the Austr...

Obesity is thought to be an aetiological factor for slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). We analysed changes in the incidence of SCFE in Scotland over the last two decades. During this period rates of childhood obesity have risen substantially and evidence for a relationship between these changes and the incidence of SCFE was sought. We found that the incidence of SCFE increased from 3.78 ...

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over whether not-for-profit (NFP) and for-profit (FP) hospitals really differ from each other in meaningful ways. Specifically, the ongoing debate has concerned whether NFP hospitals pursue objectives that differ from the objectives of FP hospitals and, if so, whether these different objectives get translated into different sorts of behav...

Infantile or developmental coxa vara is a relatively infrequent localised dysplasia of unknown etiology which usually presents in the second or third year of life soon after the child begins walking. The clinical and radiological picture is usually characteristic especially when seen early. Early surgery leads to a satisfactory outcome. However, difficulty arises in diagnosis and treatment when...

The etiology of slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) is unknown with many insights coming from epidemiologic/demographic information. A systematic medical literature review regarding SCFE was performed. The incidence is 0.33/100,000 to 24.58/100,000 children 8 to 15 years of age. The relative racial frequency, relative to Caucasians at 1.0, is 5.6 for Polynesians, 3.9 for Blacks, and 2.5 fo...