The paper examines the motivation for termination fee use by proving evidence on the effects of including a target termination fee in a merger contract. I test the implications of the hypothesis that termination fees are used by self-interested target managers to deter competing bids and protect “sweetheart” deals with white knight bidders, presumably resulting in lower premiums for target shar...

To my parents who never lacked the support, encouragement, and prayers, and to my sweetheart Abeer who gave me so much love and showed a lot of patience. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Gordon L. Stüber, for his insightful guidance and helpful comments. His hard work and dedication made me a better student and researcher. I would also like to thank the committee mem...

The Sweetheart is the one who always Love and Adores Beau most. Obviously she has a strong desire that should think only of herself will be more fond having their convergence always. Even if suspicious about Fidelity her Beau, create little dispute which may not last longer. Sweetheart’s passionate romance with love towards can very well felt when goes for fight though he at fault or guilt. In ...

Foreword This book is not just a survey of noncommutative geometry — later NCG; rather, it strives to answer some naive but vital questions: What is the purpose of NCG? What is it good for? Can NCG solve open problems of classical geometry inaccessible otherwise? In other words, why does NCG matter? What is it anyway? Good answer means good examples. A sweetheart of NCG called non-commutative t...

Martha Stewart, dark-eyod president of the P. A. L. S.. will this year receive the homage of the crowd which will come on the first Saturday in May to see the coronation of Rice's queen at the annual May fete. The honor of being selected queen comes as a climax to a number of similar honors which have been bestowed upon Miss Stewart throughout her college career. For three years she was a membe...

Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark The word for ‘married’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘poison’. The word for ‘sweetheart’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘tax’. In this paper we expand upon the literature documenting a significant marital wage premium for men in the United States to see if a similar diffe...

THE LANCET • Vol 358 • December 22/29, 2001 2155 The heart did not feature in European art until the later Middle Ages. The first illustration of a heart outside the anatomical literature occurred as late as the 13th century, in a French manuscript, written by an unknown poet and entitled Roman de la poire (Romance of the pear). This story takes its title from a scene in which the damsel offers...

A study was conducted in a commercial sweet cherry orchard central Chile. The objective to evaluate the rain cover effect on changes microclimate, vegetative growth, plant physiology and fruit quality of ‘Rainier’, ‘Bing’ ‘Sweetheart’ trees. data were compared control without cover. results showed that, under cover, there 50–60% reduction total solar radiation, as well an increase air temperatu...

Irrigated agriculture in semi-arid regions is expected to increase the future, which puts greater demands on scarce water resources. Sustainable irrigation strategies will support agricultural resilience climatic change. The response of “Sweetheart”/Mazzard sweet cherry trees ( Prunus avium L.) postharvest deficit (PDI), as a conservation method, was studied over three seasons (2019–2022) Okana...