The compensatory growth, proximate composition and amino acid contents changes of young yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco R.) (1.63-1.69 g) had been investigated using a 45-day cyclic feed deprivation and re-feeding experiment. The control group (S0) was fed daily with live tubificid worms (Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri), while the S1/4, S1/2, and S1/1 groups cyclically experienced one-day of ...

We use a bargaining framework to examine empirically the relations between director compensation and board-of-director independence. Our evidence suggests that independent directors have a bargaining advantage over the CEO that results in compensation more closely aligned with shareholders’ objectives. Firms with more outsiders on their boards award directors more equity-based compensation. Whe...

This study attempts to achieve modeling simulation of the well-known phenomenon of online compensation for pitch-shifted auditory feedback. We used the Target Approximation (TA) model as the underlying kinematic mechanism of pitch contour generation, and simulated feedback compensation through responsive perturbation of the height parameter of the TA model. Results show that both withinsyllable...

Meiotic crossover (CO) recombination facilitates evolution and accurate chromosome segregation. CO distribution is tightly regulated: homolog pairs receive at least one CO, CO spacing is nonrandom, and COs occur preferentially in short genomic intervals called hotspots. We show that CO number and distribution are controlled on a chromosome-wide basis at the level of DNA double-strand break (DSB...

This short note considers the use of nonlinear timevarying compensation for linear time-invariant discrete-time plants. It is shown via counterexample that the problem of simultaneous performance presents fundamental limitations which cannot be overcome by nonlinear time-varying compensation. This result is in contrast to results on simultaneous stabilization which show that limitations due to ...

The arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. But the critics have it wrong. The relentless attention on how much CEOs are paid diverts public attention from the real problem-how CEOs are paid. The authors present an in-depth statistical analysis of executive compensation. The study incorporates data on thousands of CEOs spanning five decades....

Effective compensation of phase noise in laser communication calls for fast, real-time, adaptive wavefront control. We present an analog, continuous-time, high-speed VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) controller implementing multi-dithering perturbative gradient descent optimization of a direct measure of optical performance. The system applies parallel sinusoidal perturbations to the wavefron...

We empirically examine how corporate governance affects the structure of executive compensation contracts. In particular, we analyze the implicit weights of firm performance measures in explaining CEO compensation. We find that weaker corporate governance is associated with compensation contracts that put more weight on accounting-based measures of performance (i.e., return on assets) than on s...