Despite anecdotal evidence connecting angel and venture capital (VC) financing, there is little systematic evidence on how the two early-stage capital sources interact. To study this topic, I assemble the first comprehensive dataset on angel financing and characterize its size, scope, and role in the early-stage capital market. I use the population of newly incorporated startups located in Cali...

This article focuses its attention on the functioning of biblical motifs in American fiction and their penetration public speeches non-fiction through literary journalism techniques. The findings this work illustrate that religious lexicon as a whole have been used steadily all U.S presidents. Taking into account majority Americans (73%) relates to Christians, belong important rhetorical stylis...

MARK BOLTON 1,2 *, ANDREA L. SMITH 3 , ELENA GÓMEZ-DÍAZ 4 , VICKI L. FRIESEN 3 , RENATA MEDEIROS 1 , JOËL BRIED 1 , JOSE L. ROSCALES 4 & ROBERT W. FURNESS 5 1 Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, 9901-862 Horta, Portugal 2 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK Headquarters, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds, SG19 2DL, UK 3 Department of Biology, Queen’s University, K...

This document describes our analysis of Internet outages during the October 2012 Hurricane Sandy. We assess network reliability by pinging a sample of networks and observing those that respond and then stop responding. While there are always occasional network outages, we see that the outage rate in U.S. networks doubled when the hurricane made landfall, then took about four days to recover. We...

The deployment of distributed loudspeaker systems in the context of computermusic ensembles is explored in this paper, expanding the vision of a computermusic ensembles to a flexible dynamic musicians network. With the IEM Computermusic Ensemble (ICE) the idea of playing in a virtual concert hall over network, rendered to one ore more real or simulated concert-halls has been explored: Each musi...

Ādam pictured the zabāniya as duplicates of the angel of death who, according to the Quran (4:97, 32:11), seizes the souls of sinners when they die and interrogates them about their wrongdoings. This is also how later tradition pictured them: as black creatures who appear at the moment of death to pull people’s souls out of their bodies and drag them into hell, where they torture them.2 However...