• The study shows that insider ownership positively relates to corporate bond spreads. Shareholder rights negatively moderate the positive ownership-spread relation. Insider probability of related-party transactions. is associated with ROA. Bondholders appear anticipate greater facilitates consumption private benefits. We investigate effect on yield spreads from 2003 2014 using a sample 10,460 ...

Kim argues that weak and global supervenience are too weak to guarantee any sort of dependency. Of the three original forms of supervenience, strong, weak, and global, each commonly wielded across all branches of philosophy, two are thus cast aside as uninteresting or useless. His arguments, however, fail to appreciate the strength of weak and global supervenience. I investigate what weak and g...

Our previous results [J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 (2002) 13777] dealing with the analytical solution of the two-dimensional (2-D) Anderson localization problem due to disorder is generalized for anisotropic systems (two different hopping matrix elements in transverse directions). We discuss the mathematical nature of the metalinsulator phase transition which occurs in the 2-D case, in contrast ...

Kim argues that weak and global supervenience are too weak to guarantee any sort of dependency. Of the three original forms of supervenience, strong, weak, and global, each commonly wielded across all branches of philosophy, two are thus cast aside as uninteresting or useless. His arguments, however, fail to appreciate the strength of weak and global supervenience. I investigate what weak and g...

In this paper a new kind of hopping robot has been designed which uses inverse pendulum dynamics to induce bipedal hopping gaits. Its mechanical structure consists of a rigid inverted T-shape mounted on four compliant feet. An upright “T” structure is connected to this by a rotary joint. The horizontal beam of the upright “T” is connected to the vertical beam by a second rotary joint. Using thi...

The nature of packet loss of wireless links at 2.4G band was analyzed and a wireless link quality prediction algorithm for wireless sensor networks was proposed. In the proposal, RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) and LQI (Link Quality Indicator) were utilized to produce a couple of metrics of wireless link quality, named Sm and delta respectively, and their distributions were studied. B...

To save space, we present some of our …ndings in the Online Appendix. In Section I, we investigate the intertemporal relation between various skewness measures and expected market returns. In Section II, we orthogonalize the implied volatility spread measures with respect to the implied variance, realized variance, physical skewness and risk-neutral skewness measures. In Section III, we orthogo...

roasting has considerable effects on the quality of cream made of nuts. in this study, the roasting conditions of walnut kernels were optimized based on the stability parameters of the produced cream. temperatures of 100-150°c for 10-30 minutes were used to roast walnut kernels. the amount of oil separation, peroxide, acidity and thiobarbituric acid values of the cream, as well as color paramet...