This article describes an ongoing effort to reach consensus on the notion of capacity credit for solar power electrical generation. The article presents different methodologies quantifying capacity credit and reports on their intercomparison through experimental case studies. It concludes by reporting the initial results of a consensusbuilding effort involving the utility industry, the solar in...

Most credit in India is provided by public-sector banks. Previous research has found that loan officers in public banks decline profitable lending opportunities, and are strikingly reluctant to enhance loans of growing and profitable firms. Loan officers in government owned banks often cite fear of prosecution for corruption as a reason for their rigid and conservative lending decisions. Using ...

Investors worldwide require a high level of credibility and certainty from firms’ financial reports to anchor their investment decisions. Thus, it is paramount for firms comply with the regulatory framework make latter success. On this basis, study aims determine how disclosure adjustments events after reporting period (IAS 10) affect decisions in manufacturing companies Nigeria. The employed d...

Open-ended interviews were conducted with members of the "Execution Team" in Louisiana in order to understand the roles, experiences, and effects of carrying out the death penalty. Fifty of a potential 52 correctional officers who work with executions were interviewed and asked to complete mental health inventories. While emphasizing the importance of security and their professional responsibil...

This brief report presents a study undertaken to better understand the training needs of judicial officers related to military issues. A snowball sample of judicial officers and court-affiliated stakeholders were asked to identify the most critical training topics regarding military issues in juvenile and family court, as well as rate the importance of 13 potential training topics. The highest ...

A high prevalence of low back pain has been reported among professional drivers, including mobile police officers. The purpose of this investigation was to develop and evaluate a novel thoracic support designed for mobile police officers. Fourteen participants (7 male, 7 female) attended two 120-min driving simulations using a Crown Victoria Interceptor seat and the same seat equipped with a su...

The authors examined Swedish judges', lay judges', and police officers' beliefs about factors that may complicate or facilitate children's reports of sexual abuse. Participants (N = 562) rated potential complicating and facilitating factors and freely reported which criteria they considered important when assessing the reliability of child witnesses. The groups had similar opinions regarding wh...

Studies of ownership structure generally extract the insider holdings for officers and directors from proxy statements, which has three disadvantages: (1) the data must be manually extracted, assembled, and entered into the experimental dataset; (2) dates for the insider holdings are limited to the dates given in the proxy statements; and (3) the insider holdings include only officers and direc...

This research builds on three decades of effort to produce national estimates of the amount and rate of force used by law enforcement officers in the United States. Prior efforts to produce national estimates have suffered from poor and inconsistent measurements of force, small and unrepresentative samples, low survey and/or item response rates, and disparate reporting of rates of force. The pr...