501 research outputs found
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance : Seventh Edition
No full textFundamentals of Corporate Finance," by Brealey, Myers and Marcus, provides students with a solid framework of theory and application to use well after they complete the course. This author team is known for their outstanding research, teaching efforts, and world-renowned finance textbooks, so it\u27s no surprise that they provide clear exposition of difficult material without sacrificing up-to-date, technically correct treatments. The seventh edition has been fully updated to reflect recent events and is now available with "Connect Finance"! Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effectiv
Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
No full textThis dissertation examines how at Rome the characters of the goddess Venus changed from the fourth century BC to the first century AD. It is argued that the different ways in which she was perceived, and the associations, powers and responsibilities she was assigned, were significant for the Romans’ engagement with the goddess during the Republic and early Empire.
A discussion of some theories of Roman religion since the nineteenth century shows how these views and their subsequent re-evaluation have influenced understandings of Venus. The belief that the Romans of this period took little interest in the characters of their gods is challenged, though it is suggested that traces of this remain as negative preconceptions in some modern approaches.
Earlier theories of Roman religion saw the identities of the gods as late Greek imports. Four foreign goddesses known at Rome during the Republic (Aphrodite, Turan, Isis and Cybele) are examined to discover how their characters were represented and in what ways these might have influenced the character of Venus at Rome. The extent to which they were ‘mother’ or ‘women’s’ goddesses, and whether they and Venus had similar connections with fertility and childbirth are discussed.
Evidence for the different representations of the character of Venus is drawn from a variety of sources including art, literature, numismatics and epigraphy. The changing characters are discussed in relation to women’s engagement with her and both external influence and internal developments are shown to have shaped perceptions of the goddess. In the Late Republic the role of Venus as protector and ancestor is demonstrated to have grown in significance through her connection with Aeneas, whilst during the Principate her popularity enabled her to be used in support of Augustan values
The equity premium in 100 textbooks
No full textI review 100 finance and valuation textbooks published between 1979 and 2008 by authors such as Brealey and Myers, Copeland, Damodaran, Merton, Ross, Bruner, Bodie, Penman, Weston, Brigham and Arzac and find that their recommendations regarding the equity premium range from 3% to 10%. I also find that several books use different equity premia on different pages. Some of the confusion arises from not distinguishing among the four concepts that the term equity premium designates: historical equity premium, expected equity premium, required equity premium and implied equity premium. Finance textbooks should clarify the equity premium by providing distinguishing definitions of these four concepts and conveying a clearer message about their sensible magnitudes.equity premium; equity premium puzzle; required market risk premium; historical market risk premium; expected market risk premium; risk premium; market risk premium; market premium;
Rapid phospholipid turnover after surfactant nebulization in severe COVID- 19 infection: a randomized clinical trial
No full textThird Culture Kids: Growing Among Worlds by David C. Pollock & Ruth E. Van Reken
No full textBibliography of the reviewed book: Pollock, D., & Reken, R. (Revised Edition 2009). Third Culture Kids: Growing Among Worlds. Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Mitochondrial dysfunction in critical illness
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Sustainable Value: Corporate Responsibility and measuring the Financial and Non- financial performance of the firm
No full textThis is the final report from a two-year EABIS funded research project. The
purpose of the research has been to explore how the environmental, social and
governance performance of companies might impact on the drivers of business
success; how companies explain these linkages to investors, and how the
investment community treats these data. The research project has been run in
close contact with a parallel EU CSR Alliance Laboratory on “Corporate
Responsibility and the market-valuation of non-financial performance”. This Lab
has been led by Lloyds Banking Group and Telecom It
Mitochondrial dysfunction in patients with severe sepsis: An EPR interrogation of individual respiratory chain components
No full textAbstractElectron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of complex biological systems contain information about the paramagnetic centres present. Retrieving such information is important since paramagnetic species are common intermediates of all redox reactions in both normal and abnormal metabolism. However, it is often difficult to determine the nature and content of all paramagnetic species present because the EPR signals from individual centres overlap. Here, we apply our deconvolution method based on spectra subtraction with variable coefficient to quantify individual paramagnetic components of human muscle biopsies taken from critically ill patients with severe sepsis. We use low temperature EPR spectroscopy to identify and quantify nine different paramagnetic species in the tissue. These include the majority of the mitochondrial iron–sulfur centres and the first in vivo report of a mitochondrial radical assigned to a spin-coupled pair of semiquinones (SQ·–SQ·). We have previously demonstrated in these same muscle biopsies that biochemical assays of mitochondrial dysfunction correlate with clinical outcomes (D. Brealey, M. Brand, I. Hargreaves, S. Heales, J. Land, R. Smolenski, N.A. Davies, C.E. Cooper, M. Singer, Association between mitochondrial dysfunction and severity and outcome of septic shock. Lancet 360 (2002) 219–223.). Analysis of the paramagnetic centres in the muscle confirms and extends these findings: the (SQ·–SQ·) radical species negatively correlates with the illness severity of the patient (APACHE II score) and a decreased concentration of mitochondrial Complex I iron–sulfur redox centres is linked to mortality
Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
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Hundreds of thousands of volunteers take part in medical research, but many will never hear from researchers about what the study revealed. There is a growing demand for the results of randomised trials to be fed back to research participants both for ethical research practice and for ensuring their co-operation in a trial. This study aims to determine participants' preferences for type of leaflet (short versus long) used to summarise the findings of a randomised trial; and to test whether certain characteristics explained participants' preferences. \ud
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Methods\ud
553 participants in a randomised trial about General Practitioners' access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging for patients presenting with suspected internal derangement of the knee were asked in the final follow-up questionnaire whether they would like to be fed back the results of the trial. Participants who agreed to this were included in a postal questionnaire survey asking about their preference, if any, between a short and a long leaflet and what it was about the leaflet that they preferred. Multinomial logistic regression was used to test whether certain demographics of responding participants along with treatment group explained whether a participant had a preference for type of leaflet or no preference. \ud
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Results\ud
Of the participants who returned the final follow-up questionnaire, 416 (88%) agreed to receive the results of the trial. Subsequently 132 (32%) participants responded to the survey. Most participants preferred the longer leaflet (55%) and the main reasons for this were the use of technical information (94%) and diagrams (89%). There was weak evidence to suggest that gender might explain whether participants have a preference for type of leaflet or not (P = 0.084). \ud
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Conclusions\ud
Trial participants want to receive feed back about the results and appear to prefer a longer leaflet. Males and females might require information to be communicated to them differently and should be the focus of further research. \ud
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