This study examines the impact of multiple large shareholders (MLS) on a firm’s dividend payouts in low-investor protection regime, India, where minority shareholders’ expropriation concerns are severe and firms have an incentive to build capital market reputation. Therefore, we purport for prevalence substitution hypothesis, whereby MLS cooperate paying larger dividends assuage reputation-buil...

BACKGROUND Alcohol-related aggression and violence are a widespread cause of personal suffering with high socioeconomic costs. In 2011, nearly one in three violent acts in Germany was committed under the influence of alcohol (31.8%). The link between alcohol consumption and aggression is promoted by various interacting factors. METHODS In this review, based on a selective search for pertinent...

This study was undertaken to investigate the authors' clinical impression that there are significant differences between the male and female insanity acquittees in Colorado, and that these differences result in significantly different treatment needs. The study sample included 149 patients: 112 men and 37 women committed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo as not guilty by reason ...

Abstract Corporate groups with minority shareholders in one or more subsidiaries are common around the world, despite risks such arrangements pose to those shareholders. Shaping a firm as web of formally independent, minority-co-owned legal entities facilitates controllers’ diversion corporate wealth (tunnelling) via intragroup transactions and other non-transactional techniques. While many jur...

Perceptions of verbal abuse were examined in a sample of 120 female undergraduate students. Participants read a scenario depicting a verbally abusive situation between a male and a female college student. The scenarios varied by type of relationship (friendship vs. dating), duration of relationship (1 month vs. 2 years), and genders of perpetrator and victim. Participants rated the perpetrator’...

This study examines the phenomenon of corruption fraud proxied by earning management in companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange. uses variables leverage, capital expenditure, and profitability as key influencing practices that lead to corruption. time-series data from 2017 2021 selects a sample purposive sampling many 28 The study's results found turned out have positive significant effect...

Violence in families and elder abuse can take many forms, which his sometimes difficult to recognize. In Russia, elder abuse is rarely discussed in professional literature and mass media. A border between elder abuse and parricide can be indistinct. Borderline cases can include involvement of older people in binge drinking, denial of help, and manipulation towards suicide. Three example cases a...

The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) is a multi-disciplinary organization committed to health professional faculty development in substance abuse. In 1976, members of the Career Teachers Training Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse, a US federally funded multi-disciplinary faculty development program, formed AMERSA. The organization grew from 59 founding ...

BACKGROUND We examined the relationships among experiences of interpersonal violence, mental health, and sexual identity in a national sample of young adult women in Australia. METHODS We used existing data from the third (2003) wave of young adult women (aged 25-30) in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). We conducted bivariate analyses and fit multiple and logistic r...