The practice of executive stock option repricing is examined using a sample of firms in the gaming industry during 1994-98. The practice of repricing executive stock options is often criticized, however this paper recognizes that there may be conditions when such recontracting may be viewed as beneficial to shareholders. Specifically, given that options provide both incentives to increase risk ...

BACKGROUND To achieve a high level of patient satisfaction, providers need to identify and address patients' expectations. However, providers' beliefs and attitudes regarding expectations, as well as how to manage them, are not well understood. METHODS The authors developed a survey to assess clinicians' awareness, attitudes, competence and performance with respect to patient expectations. Th...

OBJECTIVE To determine risk factors among licensed firearm retailers for disproportionate sales of handguns that are later subjected to ownership tracing, generally after use in crime. DESIGN Case-control; the study period was 1998-2003. Cases were all eligible firearm retailers whose handguns were later traced at a rate that significantly (p<0.05) exceeded the expected value. Controls were a...

Introduction Surface-based approaches have frequently been used to analyse social and economic data. Using approaches such as kernel regression it has been possible to fit continuous surfaces to spatially reference social and economic data, such as house prices. The technique has often proved a useful tool in identifying trends in the data for example one can identify areas of town in which hou...

Recent molecular evidence suggests that Sciurus vulgaris populations from Calabria (southern Italy) are distinct from those occurring in northern and central Italy. Here, we re-analyzed using multivariate and univariate techniques an historical dataset provided by Cavazza (1913), who documented measurements for the now extinct squirrel population from Campania. Both univariate and multivariate ...