This study explores the relationship between board committees’ independence and financial distress of firms in China UK. Akin to previous literature, we estimate this 2007 2016 using a conditional logit model on sample matched pair firms. For China, results indicate positive statistically significant association percentage independent audit committee members In contrast, opposite was found for ...

The two major modes of locomotion in humans, walking and running, may be regarded as a function of different speed (walking as slower and running as faster). Recent results using motor learning tasks in humans, as well as more direct evidence from animal models, advocate for independence in the neural control mechanisms underlying different locomotion tasks. In the current study, we investigate...

We study the Lp-spectrum of the Dirac operator on complete manifolds. One of the main questions in this context is whether this spectrum depends on p. As a rst example where p-independence fails we compute explicitly the Lp-spectrum for the hyperbolic space and its product with compact spaces.

The hospital customer classification is very important for the integration and allocation of hospital resources, can greatly enhance the market competitiveness of the hospital. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an approach to solve classification problem by using optimization method. Selecting different kernel parameters can construct different classifiers, meanwhile parameters decide their learn...

most impact tests are carried out on specimens with specific stacking sequence and dimensions to meet standard and experimental limitations. the damaged areas and the resulted reduction in the strength values of specimens may not agree very well with those of real application. in this paper an attempt is made to study the variation in the size of damaged areas due to varying the dimension of te...

This paper presents a CMOS current-mode S-shape correction circuit. The S-shape correction function is proposed to suit for panel-to-panel LCD displays by selecting a fractional value. Simulated results are at 1.8V supply voltage for 0.35μm CMOS process. Image quality improvement due to S-shape correction is observed. The -3dB bandwidth are about 50 MHz for the proposed circuit. Key-Words: LCD,...

Video streaming over wireless links is a non-trivial problem due to the large and frequent changes in the quality of the underlying radio channel combined with latency constraints. We believe that every layer in a mobile system must be prepared to adapt its behavior to its environment. Thus layers must be capable of operating in multiple modes; each mode will show a different quality and resour...