This paper investigates how stock prices of high-litigation-risk industries reacted to the news on legal changes in shareholder derivative suits in Japan. Specifically, we focus on two amendments to the Japanese Commercial Code. The 1993 Commercial Code amendments lowered the filing fees required to bring derivative actions, while the 2001 Commercial Code amendments attempted to reduce abusive ...

In commercial software development organizations, increased complexity of products, shortened development cycles, and higher customer expectations of quality have placed a major responsibility on the areas of software debugging, testing, and verification. As this issue of the IBM Systems Journal illustrates, there are exciting improvements in the underlying technology on all three fronts. Howev...

While the advertisements shown by television stations pay for the content that the stations provide, most of us would rather not watch them. This paper describes a system called mythcomm that attempts to make removing them easy through a visualization. We want to do this quickly, since it would be as worthwhile to simply watch the commercials if it took too long. Mythcomm takes advantage of the...

In this paper, a performance study was conducted to investigate single and dual-axis PV systems to generate electricity in five different sites in Kuwait. Relevant data were obtained by using two sources for validation purposes. A commercial software, PVsyst, was used to analyse the data, such as metrological data and other input parameters, and compute the performance parameters such as capaci...

Available commercial software to simulate flowsheets incorporating drying is reviewed briefly. Such software can be very cost-effective in the design, analysis, trouble-shooting as well as control and optimization of drying systems. A new comprehensive drying software suite is proposed and analyzed. Key factors to the success of drying software products are discussed. Motivation, principles and...

Recently, spectacular advances in diagnostic technologies, genomics, etc. offer unprecedented opportunities for widespread testing of asymptomatic individuals, in the hope that this testing will unravel early disease signs which could lead to preventative or more effective therapeutic measures. In particular, one commercial organization, Theranos, promises to revolutionize diagnostics by offeri...

We present a software acquisition meta-model, called SAMM, for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software acquisition. Our model is a meta-model in that it includes sections that use other, detailed, models for specific tasks. SAMM is a complete life-cycle model that begins with an end-user need and ends with software maintenance. We have adapted several other models in to SAMM and added several ...

This paper addresses the techno-economic analysis of the propane aromatization process, by adopting a novel kinetics-to-process approach. The recent interest in this technological route derives from the development of new third generation biorefinery concepts, in which, algal oil is subjected to catalytic hydrodeoxygenation processes for the production of (Hydrotreated Renewable Jet) HRJ fuels....