abstract in this research the thermal stratification of the water in the torogh dam basin and the resulted changes in its quality with respect to temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen was investigated using the dynamic reservoir simulation model. the results indicated that in wet years such as 1998, when the average annual precipitation and the resulted inflows to the basin is higher than ...

A lot happened at Caremark after the seminal 1996 decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery addressing the duties of directors in the context of a significant compliance failure. A new Board and management team took the helm and achieved spectacular results, delivering cumulative shareholder returns of over 1300% in the eight year period between November 1998 and November 2006 and over 1600% w...

The release of the report, Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy by the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College in 1999 regenerated interest in the intergenerational transfer of wealth. Although the report documented a low-, a mediumand a high-growth scenario, the most cited figure is the ...

Extending the work of Connolly and Rendleman (2008), we document the dominance of Tiger Woods during the 1998-2001 PGA Tour seasons. We show that by playing " average, " Woods could have won some tournaments and placed no worse than fourth in the tournaments in which he participated in year 2000, his best on the PGA Tour. No other PGA Tour player in our sample could have come close to such a fe...

Abstract This paper applies the meta-frontier Data Envelopment Analysis and main concepts of convergence from economic growth literature (?-convergence ?-convergence) to analyze integration both in efficiency technology gap European Union (EU) insurance markets. We evaluate 10 EU life markets over 17-year-period 1998–2014. Results show cost/revenue among major during sample period. These findin...

PROBLEM Blasting is a hazardous component of surface mining. Serious injuries and fatalities result from improper judgment or practice during rock blasting. This paper describes several fatal injury case studies, analyzes causative factors, and emphasizes preventive measures. METHOD This study examines publications by MSHA, USGS, and other authors. The primary source of information was MSHA's...