We define the notion of a weakly pointed tree, and characterize the amount of genericity necessary to prevent a uniformly branching tree being weakly pointed. We use these ideas to show there is no topological analogue of a measure-theoretic selection theorem of Graf and Mauldin. We consider some topological and recursion-theoretic questions motivated by the following measure-theoretic result o...

This study examines the impact of nation’s legal system on corporate disclosures. However, this study breaks with prior research in two significant ways. First, this study extends prior research by analyzing differences in disclosure practices in Roman-Germanic Law nations of different origins within this legal family. Second, this study focuses on a single disclosure issue rather than general ...

Ryan DeRosa, Jennifer C Driggers, Dani Atkinson, Haixing Miao, Valery Frolov, Michael Landry, Joseph Giaime, 4 and Rana Adhikari Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803 LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125 LIGO Hanford Observatory, 127124 N Route 10, Richland, Washington, 99354 LIGO Livingston Obs...

In a retrospective survey of 301 women aged over 70 with breast cancer the factors affectingfive-year survival are evaluated. The local disease is more advanced when the patient presents with it in old age than in younger women, possibly associated with a lesser degree of awareness or a long history of the primary tumour. It is not associated with a different average rate of tumour growth in ol...

Generalized Cross Validation (GCV) is a popular approach to determining the regularization parameter in Tikhonov regularization. The regularization parameter is chosen by minimizing an expression, which is easy to evaluate for small-scale problems, but prohibitively expensive to compute for large-scale ones. This paper describes a novel method, based on Gauss-type quadrature, for determining up...

ERP was one of the important developments in the use of information technology for organizations in the 1990s. Y2K rectification was a key driver in the decision to move to ERP software. Based on diffusion-of-innovation models, in this study, the sources of influence of ERP adoption in Taiwan are investigated and if the dawning Y2K can be viewed as a critical point is explored. The results demo...

The ridesharing economy is experiencing rapid growth and innovation. Companies such as Uber and Lyft are continuing to grow at a considerable pace while providing their platform as an organizing medium for ridesharing services, increasing consumer utility as well as employing thousands in part-time positions. However, many challenges remain in the modeling of ridesharing services, many of which...