Abstract Can shareholders’ divestitures and threats of exit trigger improvements in firms’ environmental social (E&S) policies? We show that E&S incidents are followed by some, but relatively small, divestitures. Nevertheless, following incidents, firms with a one-standard-deviation higher E&S-conscious institutional ownership decrease their greenhouse gas emissions 36.5% improve sc...

BACKGROUND Despite all commercially available continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems being designed to operate in the extracellular interstitial fluid, and even though there is a well-recognized time lag between the interstitial and the venous compartments, the accuracy of the CGM device readings is still evaluated against the glucose concentration in venous blood (VB) samples, thus result...

INTRODUCTION Previous reviews have demonstrated that patient outcomes following orthopaedic surgery are strongly influenced by the presence of Workers' Compensation. However, the variability in the reviews' methodology may have inflated the estimated strength of this association. The main objective of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the influence of Workers' Compensation on the outcomes of or...

In 1994, China passed its first State Compensation Law (SCL) for wrongfully convicted individuals who can file claims loss of life or freedom, physical injury, and property due to illegal state actions in administrative criminal cases. The 2010 amended SCL added mental damage compensation mandated prioritized a negotiation procedure. current study used 144 capital exonerees examine whether how ...

This essay reviews Bebchuk and Fried’s Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation. Bebchuk and Fried criticize the standard view of executive compensation, in which executives negotiate contracts with shareholders that provide incentives that motivate them to maximize the shareholders’ welfare. In contrast, Bebchuk and Fried argue that executive compensation is m...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The assessment of post-surgical outcomes among patients with Workers' Compensation is challenging as their results are typically worse compared to those who do not receive this compensation. These patients' time to return to work is a relevant outcome measure as it illustrates the economic and social implications of this phenomenon. In this meta-analysis we aimed to ass...

We present design details and test results for the first short-term frequency standard to achieve ultra-high stability (oy < without he use of liquid helium. Technical features include vibration isolation by atmospheric helium gas and a new sapphire resonator design with adjustable compensation operating at 8-10K.

In the past, relatives and patients appeared to accept that pressure ulcers were an inevitable result of chronic conditions and reduced mobility. Now they are viewed as evidence of a failure to provide a reasonable standard of care and action can be brought against those responsible, for compensation.

We demonstrate a 158 fs 5.3 nJ mode-locked laser system based on a fiber oscillator, fiber amplifier and fiber compressor. Dispersion compensation in the fiber oscillator was obtained with a solid-core photonic bandgap (SC-PBG) fiber spliced to standard fibers, and external compression is obtained with a hollow-core photonic bandgap (HC-PBG) fiber.

Different schemes of dispersion management for cascaded transmission systems composed of standard monomode fibers (SMFS) and dispersion compensating fibers have been studied considering the most essential boundary conditions for practical network design. Alternating ordering of the compensation sections is found to improve considerably the eye opening penalty for high amplifier spacings of 120 km.