Introduction Stair falls can be caused by inconsistent stair dimensions. During ascent, inconsistently taller risers lead to reduced foot clearances as the inconsistency goes unnoticed. A horizontal-vertical illusion increases perceived riser heights and clearance could offset over risers, though this might impact other safety measures. Method Twelve participants (age: 22 (3) years) ascended a ...

The recent plunge in U.S. home prices left many households that had borrowed voraciously during the credit boom highly leveraged, meaning that they had very high levels of debt relative to the value of their assets. Analysts often assert that this “debt overhang” created a need for household deleveraging that, in turn, has been depressing consumer spending and impeding the economic recovery. Th...

The telomere G-overhang structure has been identified in many eukaryotes including yeast, vertebrates, and Trypanosoma brucei. It serves as the substrate for telomerase for de novo telomere DNA synthesis and is therefore important for telomere maintenance. T. brucei is a protozoan parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle. Once infected mammalian host, T. brucei cell...

This article uses a contingent-claims valuation method to compare debt financing, investment, and risk choices of a firm adopting the second-best strategy with those of a firm adopting the first-best strategy. The former bears the agency costs, as conjectured by Jensen and Meckling (1976) and Myers (1977), because it chooses suboptimal investment timing and risk levels, while the latter is able...

This research aims to simulate structural steel 400 (SS400) material as an alternative for the electric bus's chassis structure. The kind of is low carbon steel. SS400 produced from one largest mills in Indonesia, considered a local material. used increase total domestic content cars Indonesia could be improved. Generally, reverse engineering method R260 ladder frame type vehicles. However, thi...

This study examined the effect of external debt burden on growth Nigeria economy. Time series data was sourced from Central Bank Statistical Bulletin 1986-2019. real gross domestic proxied for dependent variable while servicing; stock, overhang, sustainability and crowd-out were proxies independent variables. The employed multiple regression models to estimate relationship that exists between i...