The purpose of this study is to find the factors that influence corporate liquidity holdings in Canada. This study also seeks to extend the studies of Isshaq and Bokpin [1] and Bruinshoofd and Kool [2] related to corporate liquidity management. A sample of 164 Canadian firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for a period of 3 years (from 2008-2010) was selected. This study applied co-relatio...

Statistical models, such as Markov Chains, have been recently studied in the context of procedural content generation (PCG). These models can capture statistical regularities of a set of training data and use them to sample new content. However, these techniques assume the existence of sufficient training data with which to train the models. In this paper we study the setting in which we might ...

This study examined the influence of peer selection and socialization effects on binge drinking (BD) behaviors during the transition to college. Participants included 196 first-year college students (72.9% female) from a large Southeastern public university who reported BD pre-college (Time 1) and three months post-matriculation (Time 2). At Time 2, participants identified their closest new col...

When given the chance to choose between two tasks, one will more likely choose the easier, less demanding task. This effect has been shown in various domains and referred to as the law of minimum effort or demand avoidance. Kool and colleagues (2010, 2013) designed the demand selection task (DST) and showed that most of their participants exhibited clear demand avoidance. We attempted to replic...

A radionuclide source term model has been developed which simulates the biogeochemical evolution of the Drigg low level waste (LLW) disposal site. The DRINK (DRIgg Near field Kinetic) model provides data regarding radionuclide concentrations in groundwater over a period of 100,000 years, which are used as input to assessment calculations for a groundwater pathway. The DRINK model also provides ...

This paper discusses early results from a project called Morph where the goal is to develop a microarchitecture that can adapt its intrinsic performance dynamically. By observing that power dissipation is, to a first approximation, proportional to a power of the performance, reducing the performance characteristics thus reduces the power even faster, resulting in greatly improved performance/ w...

Let X be a nonsingular complex projective toric variety. We address the question of semi-stability as well stability for tangent bundle T X. In particular, complete answer is given when Fano variety dimension four with Picard number at most two, complementing earlier work Nakagawa (Tohoku. Math. J. 45 (1993) 297–310; 46 (1994) 125–133). also give an infinite set examples varieties which TX unst...

INTRODUCTION This study analyzes tobacco industry menthol marketing strategies aimed at urban predominantly Black populations. METHODS Data are drawn from an interview with a former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company trade marketing manager, tobacco industry documents on Kool promotions in urban areas, and public health literature on tobacco marketing. RESULTS Tobacco companies recognize th...

You have accessJournal of UrologyBladder Cancer: Basic Research & Pathophysiology II (PD42)1 Sep 2021PD42-06 BOOSTING THE COMBINATION OF RADIATION AND ANTI-PD-L1 WITH STING AGONIST IN A PRECLINICAL MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER MURINE MODEL Gautier Marcq, Jiamin Huang, Côme Tholomier, Surashri Shinde-Jadhav, Ronald Kool, Rodrigo Skowronski, Fadi Brimo, Jose Joao Mansure, and Wassim Kassouf Mar...

For more than 70 years, alum has been used as a trusty aide to improve antibody responses to vaccines. But how this aluminum-containing compound boosts the response to vaccines has been a mystery. On page 869, Kool et al. expose its mysterious mechanism; they find that alum causes cells to produce a stim-ulator of dendritic cells (DCs). DCs were once the favored hypothetical link between alum a...