This study examines the role of CEOs’ pensions and deferred compensations by exploring their impacts on pricing and non-pricing contract terms of bank loans. CEO’s inside debt, defined as the sum of defined benefit pensions and deferred compensations, pays fixed amounts at periodic intervals. We find that higher inside debt holdings significantly reduce both loan rate spreads and demands for co...

A dynamic pre-allocated connection (DPC) scheme is proposed to support fast handoff and to effectively utilize wireline links. Since the proposed scheme uses pre-allocated switched virtual connections (PSVCs), handoff can be quickly executed in real-time with reduced connection overhead. This dynamic resource management scheme increases utilization of wireline links due to statistical multiplex...

See the abstract given in Part I (Deliyannis, Pinsonneault, Char-bonnel, hereafter DPC, in these proceedings). In Part II we discuss the lithium data for metal-poor stars and the constraints it places on stellar depletion. There are a variety of indicators that place interesting bounds on the degree of stellar depletion, and in contrast to the other two sections the data for Population II stars...