The first study for this dissertation develops a tax-adjusted cost-of-carry model for Australian stock index futures and estimates the value of the debt tax shield, cash dividends and imputation tax credits flowing from the basket stocks in the index. As discussed in the previous chapter, the study relaxes the assumption made in previous research that interest and dividends receive the same tax...

Die Anwendung Remote Task Control entstand in Zusammenarbeit der Firmen HORSCH und geo-konzept im Forschungsprojekt Geo Farm und ermöglicht eine durchgängig automatisierte Prozesskette von der Bereitstellung und Archivierung georeferenzierter Applikationskarten und Datenübertragung zur Landmaschine bis zur Ausführung und Dokumentation des variablen Applikationsprozesses im Feld. Das Projekt Geo...

Methods to improve bearing capacity of footing resting of collapsing soil can, in fact, take two approaches, improving soil strength properties and intrusion of reinforcing sorces into soil. The footing is modeled by a square steel plate 0.1 by 0.1 m. The footing is loaded as to have a stress of 40 kPa and settlement is receded in dry and in soaking conditions. Two depths of the geo-mesh reinfo...

Discussing a body of artwork made in Turkey's Kurdistan, I explore contemporary art's potential to facilitate critical insight into the (geo)politics ecology today. A significant strand growing geographical literature on focuses issues ecological import such as climate change, locating critique problematisation Eurocentric aesthetics for its links with colonialism and racialised humanism. Still...

The organizational life pervaded with politics (some organizations more than others are). Hence, political behavior is an ordinary part of the Performance Appraisals (PAS) processes and PAS are highly prone by politics. Politics is an important determinant in the pay systems as both supervisors and subordinates have possibilities to influence the results of the appraisal process. The overall at...

The concept of heritage is constantly on the cultural and politic agenda of contemporary society. The reflections in this chapter move away from legal and legislative references toward the meaning the capital has assumed within the disciplines that study territory, landscape, and architecture. Describing the many ways in which the term is used reveals the gradual expansion of the concept of her...

Doctors know government and politics like lawyers know medicine—enough to really make a mess of things. Thus, physicians loath to recommend major surgery (especially of debatable benefit) for their patients, eagerly advocate for radical “reform” of our health care system, even though the body politic also bears lifelong scars after disfiguring interventions. Why do doctors, so distrustful of th...

Part I.—Economic Factors and Crime. Crime is a great source of waste. Millions worth of property is destroyed by criminal activity every year, in every country of any importance. Lakhs of rupees are spent on detection of crime and on bringing to book the offenders. Thousands of men are sent to prisons when their crimes are detected, and they have to be fed and housed at State cost. It is true t...