We hypothesize that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, innovative diversity (ID) of a firm's patent portfolio will be undervalued. ID strongly predicts stock returns after controlling for firm characteristics and risk. High ID portfolios provide Carhart alphas of 56-81 basis points per month and stronger and less volatile operating performance. The Diversified Min...

T here is much to applaud in the legislation authorizing US foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS (the US Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act -hereafter the Leadership Act). President George W. Bush and Congress passed this landmark legislation in a laudable effort to address the catastrophic HIV/AIDS pandemic. The law has vastly increased US funding for HIV/AIDS programs and h...

and Applied Analysis 3 Next we present auxiliary statements which play important roles in proving the main results. Define F : 0,∞ → R by F x Φ x/q−1/q −Φ 1−1/x and h : Φ −∞ q ,∞ → R by h x x 1 − q1−α [ 1 − ( 1 ( q − 1 ) Φ−1 x )1−α] . 2.1 For y : q0 → R \ {0} define the operator L by L [ y ] t Φ ( y ( q2t ) qy ( qt ) − 1 q ) −Φ ( 1 − y t

The present study compared speeches by Iranian President Rouhani, following a moderate political ideology, and his predecessor Ahmadinejad, a seemingly conservative/ principalist president, at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The discourse-historical approach was employed to analyze the two corpora. Other discoursal features such as the representation of self and identity were also inc...

The goal of this paper is to develop an estimable model of President-Congress bargaining in the US, and to use this model to provide a better understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the outcome of a bargaining game in which the President acts as the agenda-setter and Congress bargains over the final sh...

The 2012 ASOHNS ASM in Adelaide in April this year was a highly successful meeting and, again on behalf of all members, I extend our gratitude and congratulations to the Convenor, Darcy Economos, Scientific Convenor, Simon Carney and those on the convening and scientific convening committees: Kym Diamantis, Stephen Floreani, Michael Jay, Suren Krishnan, Anthony Morley, Eng Ooi, John Tomich and ...

"Physical chemistry is everything that is interesting," so replied G. N. Lewis, the distinguished mentor of Henry Eyring at Berkeley, California, when queried about the content of this scientific discipline. If this definition be correct, then one who follows the profession of physical chemistry must be sort of a "pan-scientist," and for this title Henry Eyring is well qualified. It is entirely...

"Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary" was published in September 1999 by The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission in response to a national debate about whether or not the US federal government should fund embryonic stem cell research [6]. "Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research" recommended policy to US President William Clinton's administration, which advoca...

This evening, I will suggest some rethinking of a common belief that South Carolina impetuously fired on Fort Sumter and began the War against Southern Independence, usually called by a less accurate name. I asked your president, Dr Phil Mackowiak, if that approach might be too provocative. He replied, “No, that would be a welcome break from medicine and science.” We are after all, he said, in ...

The new US President will be selecting the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at a time when the agency faces many challenges. Priorities for the new director include boosting the NIH coffers in troubled economic times, balancing funding for basic and translational research, and helping young scientists.