Infrastructure systems are essential for the continuous functionality of modern global societies. Some examples of these systems include electric energy, potable water, oil and gas, telecommunications, and the internet. Different topologies underline the structure of these networked systems. Each topology (i.e., physical layout) conditions the way in which networks transmit...
This paper presents a unified analysis of going-public decisions, IPO Initial public offering underpricing and venture capital. An inventor is unable to receive a satisfactory acquisition price from a long purse because the long purse is uncertain about the technological quality of the innovation. An inventor with a good technological...
This paper offers a simple explanation for the positive trend in idiosyncratic risk that is consistent with a systematic change in the nature of public firms, not public markets. It is argued that the rise in firm specific risk can be explained by the interaction of two reinforcing factors: a...
From the executive summary: ‘A critical challenge for many managers today is fostering creativity among employees. While some studies have shown that it requires the right culture, leadership and, not surprisingly, a positive mood, a recent study suggests that under some conditions, negative moods may be a more likely stimulus.’...
A major domain of inquiry in human-computer interaction is the execution of routine procedures. The paper reveals the collection of extensive data on human execution of two procedures which are structurally isomorphic, but not visually isomorphic. Extant control approaches (e.g., GOMS) predicts they should have the same execution time and...
Leadership is the process of influencing the behavior of others towards attainment of certain pre-defined organizational objectives. The managers manage things and the leaders lead people. Hence, it is imperative for effective managers to be good administrators and leaders. An effective leader is one who commands respect from subordinates and...
This paper explains the impact of regulatory and institutional distortions, and reforms instituted to remedy them on the private manufacturing sector of Egypt. We undertake this study using a generalized cost function, which subsumes the standard neoclassical cost function as a special case. This approach allows us to assess the...
Zodrow and Mieszkowski ZM (1986) find that tax competition among local jurisdictions leads to underprovision of business public services when financed with a tax on mobile capital. Sinn (1997), in contrast, argues that local governments provide business public goods efficiently even if a tax on mobile capital is their only...
Morris Almond can shoot. That much the Jazz knew when they selected the shooting guard from Rice University in the first round, No. 25 overall, of the 2007 NBA Draft. Almond also can score. He proved that at Rice, where he...
FOOTBALL: University of Utah football season tickets have topped 26,000 for the first time in school history, marking the fourth straight year the Utes have set a new record in season sales. The Utah ticket office confirmed that season sales have gone over 26,750 -- well ahead of the old...
Local & state: Musgrave, Scott named to Lowe's All-America Rob Musgrave of Wichita State and Brett Scott of Kansas State were named to the first team All-Senior All-America team presented by Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. Musgrave, a left-handed pitcher from Carbondale, finished the 2008...
Local & state: Musgrave, Scott named to Lowe's All-America Rob Musgrave of Wichita State and Brett Scott of Kansas State were named to the first team All-Senior All-America team presented by Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. Musgrave, a left-handed pitcher from Carbondale, finished the 2008...
When Tino Nunez scored the game-winning goal in the 60th minute of Real Salt Lake's 2-1 win over the New England Revolution Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium, it marked a coming of age for the 23- year-old rookie. It was only Nunez's fifth appearance for RSL, and...
Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, and Gary Cornia, the new dean of Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management, will be the featured speakers at the Tax-Free Fund of Utah's annual meeting, set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Rice-Eccles Stadium's Varsity Room on the sixth floor. The speakers...
He came from Hollywood to revive the Old Vic and embraced British culture to such an extent that he once turned up at a Labour Party conference. Now, Kevin Spacey has joined forces with another British institution, Oxford University. Following in the footsteps of the author Martin...
People who have had a heart attack may be able to reduce the risk of another attack by 45 percent by taking a purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, a new study suggests. What's more, the need for bypass surgery or angioplasty was reduced by one third, and death...
HOUSTON -- The Cougar Fund at the University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business is now home to the best student stock analysis team in the country and third in the world, as determined by the Chartered Financial Analyst CFA Institute. A team of students from...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.R (AMEX: API) announced today that it has received purchase orders totaling more than $800,000 for T-Ray 4000[TM] Terahertz systems from leading university and government research labs in North America, including Rice University and Sandia National Laboratory. Picometrix[R], LLC, an API company,...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-10 June 2008-Pepsi Recognizes African-American Fathers With 'Four Weeks For Father'C2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Pepsi said that it is celebrating Father's Day and the essential role of fathers and father figures in the African-American community with "Four Weeks For Father!," a free booklet available...
