The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1086-7376.htm A reformulated asset pricing model based on contrarian strategies Zhongzhi (Lawrence) He Faculty of Business, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada, and Reformulated asset pricing model 185 Lawrence Kryzanowski John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Abstract Purpose – Researchers have proposed characteristics-based pricing models as an alternative
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closed source modules like the ones that can be found in MySQL Enterprise Edition. In fact, all the closed source features in MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition are found in the MariaDB open source version. MariaDB includes test cases for all fixed bugs. Oracle doesn't provide test cases for new bugs fixed in MySQL 5.5. All bugs and development plans are public. MariaDB is developed by the community in true open source spirit. MariaDB has a lot of new options, extension, storage engines and bug fixes that
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Service Request SR-rm-019 Ian Maley, Travis Cooper, Charles Nelson Truett NTC 360 November 11, 2011 Angela Young Service Request SR-rm-019 Background Riordan Manufacturing, a Fortune 1000 enterprise and owned by Riordan Industries. The organization established by Dr. Riordan has received a number of patents. The patents relate with developing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates. During 1992 Dr. Riordan bought a fan manufacturing facility in Pontiac, Michigan. During 1993
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to run simultaneously, each of these two tasks will run in a separate thread. Depending on the number of CPUs available and the number of competing threads, some of those threads actually will run in parallel on different CPUs, whilst in other cases the illusion of simultaneous execution will be achieved by "juggling" threads in and out of the available CPUs. A part of the OS called the thread scheduler takes care of deciding which threads to allocate CPU time to (on which CPUs) and when.
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Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure* Sergey Chernenko Ohio State University C. Fritz Foley Harvard Business School and NBER Robin Greenwood Harvard Business School and NBER March 2012 Abstract Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear all agency costs that they create and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We argue that if equity is overvalued, however,
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list of Frequently Used Symbols and Notation A text such as Intermediate Financial Theory is, by nature, relatively notation intensive. We have adopted a strategy to minimize the notational burden within each individual chapter at the cost of being, at times, inconsistent in our use of symbols across chapters. We list here a set of symbols regularly used with their specific meaning. At times, however, we have found it more practical to use some of the listed symbols to represent a different concept
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Child Abuse Investigation Introduction Child abuse is a criminal offence where the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children and in other word child abuse can be defined as causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child's body; and, any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates, shames, or frightens the child. Some child development experts go a bit further, and define child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nurture
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Mercury Athletic Footwear: Valuing Opportunity Case Summary: John Liedtke, head of business development for Active Gear Inc. (AGI), is evaluating the acquisition of Mercury Athletic (Luehrman & Hielprin, 2009). Both companies compete in the footwear industry which is a highly competitive industry characterized by low growth and stable profit margins (Luehrman & Hielprin, p. 1). Liedtke’s initial assumptions was that the acquisition of Mercury Athletic would double AGI’s revenue, increase
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CE: Tripti; COH/200301; Total nos of Pages: 7; COH 200301 Potential impact of early antiretroviral therapy on transmission David Paoa, Deenan Pillayb,c and Martin Fishera HIV/GUM Research Department, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, Department of Infection, University College London Medical School and cCentre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, UK b a Correspondence to Deenan Pillay, Centre for Virology (Bloomsbury), Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland
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LEARNING ISSUES COST-VOLUME-PROFIT (CVP) ANALYSIS 1. Definition of cvp 2. Objectives of cvp 3. The importance of cvp to the management: 4. Describe the situation of increasing return to scale 5. Describe the situation of decreasing return to scale 6. Distinguish between economist’s and accountant’s approach to cvp analysis 7. Define the term of “profit volume ratio”. 8. Definition of cost behavior 9. Types and examples for each of the
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