Gunboat Diplomacy, 1895-1905: Great Power Pressure in Venezuela

Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market : The London Stock Exchange 1895 - 1905 ∗

In perfect and complete financial markets Miller and Modigliani (1961) show that a firm’s value is unaffected by its dividend policy. Taxation, asymmetric information, incomplete contracts, institutional constraints, and transaction costs cause their theorem to fail in practice. We examine the effects of dividend policies on 323 securities that were listed on the London Stock Exchange between 1...

New Propaganda: The Public Diplomacy of the Authoritarian Regimes in China and Venezuela

The Role of Diplomacy and Soft Power in Combatting Terrorism

Cohort changes in cognitive function among Danish centenarians. A comparative study of 2 birth cohorts born in 1895 and 1905.

BACKGROUND/AIM The objective was to examine cohort changes in cognitive function in 2 cohorts of centenarians born 10 years apart. METHODS The Longitudinal Study of Danish Centenarians comprises all Danes reaching the age of 100 in the period April 1, 1995 through May 31, 1996. A total of 207 out of 276 persons participated (75%). The Danish 1905 Cohort Survey includes all individuals born in...

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility".

In this issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, Schoenfeld et al. report a qualitative analysis of Shared decision-making (SDM) from the perspective of Emergency Department (ED) patients. Shared decision-making is "a collaborative process in which patients and providers make health care decisions together, taking into account the best evidence available, as well as the patient's values and prefer...