This paper studies the connection between risk-sharing and organizational form. It models the organizational form decision as a trade-off between the superior capital market access of the stock form and a regulatory or agency advantage held by the mutual form. When capital is expensive, consumers will substitute away from paying investors to supply risk-bearing capital and toward bearing more r...

sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC. CAPT Mehran Massoudi is the associate director for science in the Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office at CDC; he has been at CDC for 18 years working in various di...

Toru Naganuma, MD,* Alaide Chieffo, MD,* Emanuele Meliga, MD,y Davide Capodanno, MD, PHD,z Seung-Jung Park, MD,x Yoshinobu Onuma, MD,k Marco Valgimigli, MD,{ Sanda Jegere, MD,#** Raj R. Makkar, MD,yy Igor F. Palacios, MD,zz Charis Costopoulos, MD,* Young-Hak Kim, MD,x Piotr P. Buszman, MD, PHD,xx Tarun Chakravarty, MD,yy Imad Sheiban, MD,kk Roxana Mehran, MD,{{ Christoph Naber, MD,*** Ronan Mar...

<p class="IEEEAbtract"><span lang="EN-US">To make an electrical system reliable and cost-effective, its protection coordination is crucial. Protection a study to determine the trip settings of protective devices. This research proposes for Mehran University Engineering Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh. includes relays connected at each department main relay with vacuum circuit breakers (...

Surrogacy, as we know it today, has only been around for the last 30 years. At same time Dasharatham is a 1989 Malayalam Indian dramatic film written by A. K. Lohithadas and directed Sibi Malayil. Its movie born before time. Anni central character who surrogate mother. We analysis emotional suffering of mother based on “Dasharatham” . The study conducted Tehran, Tashi, Mehran, Eskandari, & ...

We study how hedging a ects rm value and real investment activity. We obtain exogenous variation in access to e ective hedging instruments from the unexpected breakdown in the correlation of Canadian oil prices with the benchmark oil price used in NYMEX hedging contracts. Using a di erence-in-di erences framework we compare Canadian oil producers to their U.S. counterparts, who maintain access ...

In this dissertation, we address the problem of discovery and representation of group activity of humans and objects in a variety of scenarios, commonly encountered in vision applications. The overarching goal is to devise a discriminative representation of human motion in social settings that captures a wide variety of human activities observable in video sequences. Such motion emerges from th...

Introduction: Background radiation is originated from environmental radioactive sources cosmicandterrestrial.Materials distribution onsurface of the earth and height from sea level are not the same at various points.Absorbed dose caused by them were different at various points.In this research, Background radiation level inoutdoor different areas of Ilam province was measured and effective dose...