This paper examines the causes and consequences of hedge fund activism. Hedge funds target profitable and healthy firms, with above-average cash holdings. The target firms earn significantly higher abnormal stock returns around the initial 13D filing date than a sample of control firm. However, they do not show improvements in accounting performances in the year after the initial purchase. Inst...

Background Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of global maternal mortality figures with little progress made in curbing poor health indices. In a bid to reverse this trend, the Government of Nigeria initiated a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme to encourage pregnant women utilize services at designated health facilities. This study aims to understand experiences of women who ...

Unlike fixed-pitch instruments such as the piano, human singing can stray from a target pitch by as much as a semitone while still being perceived as a single fixed note. This paper presents a study of the difference between target pitch and actualized pitch in natural singing. A set of 50 subjects singing the same melody and lyric is used to compare utterance styles. An algorithm for alignment...

Constant pressure to increase return on assets has firms seeking ways to reduce their working capital costs. In the cash management area, firms are employing more sophisticated collection and disbursement systems. Cash management systems today efficiently speed up collections and, at the end of the day, sweep excess balances into money market accounts. Cash managers focus on finding the optimal...

Purpose: The purpose of the study will be to examine influence investment management on financial intermediation efficiency deposit taking Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies in Kenya.
 Methodology: This adopted a descriptive survey research design. Target population was 174 DT SACCOs which were operations as December 2020. Census approach used select SACCOs. relied secondary data tha...

We complement the empirical evidence on the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the fi rst time, rigorously examine the potential of cash rewards to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were fi rst assigned to two treatment groups, which were promised cash contingent on the achievement of an individually ...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, ser. 64/3     extended abstract   a study of characteristics of interim cash flow series and their proxies and the ability to predict them            dr. m. a. aghaei              v. ahmadian             f. daviran tarbiat modares university   introduction the predicting of annual and interim cash flows from operations is one of the mo...

weather and climatic parameters and their impact on farming plants are one of the foremost effective factors on improvement of crop yield. the potential facilities of various regions may be determined with agroclimatic study and exploit maximally from these facilities. in order to evaluate agroclimate of colza cultivation throughout the selected substations at hamedan province in this current i...

objective: understanding climate effects on crop yield has been a continuous endeavor aiming at improving farming technology and management strategy, minimizing negative climate effects, and maximizing positive climate effects on yield. methods: in order to evaluate agroclimate of corn cultivation throughout the selected substations at kermanshah province in this current investigation, the stat...