Researchers have debated whether knowledge or certainty is a better candidate for the norm of assertion. Should you make an assertion only if you know it’s true? Or should you make an assertion only if you’re certain it’s true? If either knowledge or certainty is a better candidate, then this will likely have detectable behavioral consequences. I report an experiment that tests for relevant beh...

We examine the effects of the SEC mandated temporary suspension of short-sale price-tests for a set of Pilot securities. While short-selling activity increased both for NYSE and NASDAQ-listed Pilot stocks, returns and volatility at the daily level are unaffected. NYSE-listed Pilot stocks experience more symmetric trading patterns and a slight increase in spreads and intraday volatility after th...

The last twenty years has seen the development of demand for a new type of computing professional, which has resulted in the emergence of the academic discipline of Information Technology (IT). Numerous colleges and universities across the country and abroad have responded by developing programs without the advantage of an existing model for guidance. Efforts to define a model curriculum for IT...

By Pongsak Hoontrakul Sasin of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and Sunil Sahadev Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India & Sasin of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand First Draft : June 2004 Current Draft : December 15, 2005 ABSTRACT The information and communication technologies are revolutionizing the hospitality sector over the years. This study looks at the pro...

In this paper we present the first draft of the University of Vienna ePortfolio framework which is closely interlinked with the university-wide eLearning strategy. Conceptually the aims of the framework are to bridge the gap(s) between different ePortfolio conceptualizations in order to provide orientation, to integrate ePortfolio on a curricular level within the context of a university-wide co...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCP) enables DHCP servers to pass configuration parameters such as IPv6 network addresses to IPv6 nodes. It offers the capability of automatic allocation of reusable network addresses and additional configuration flexibility. This protocol is a stateful counterpart to ‘‘IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration’’ [14], and can be used Bound, Car...

effective microorganisms (em) is a commercial biofertilizer mainly consists of photosynthetic and lactic acid bacteria, yeast and actinomycetes. in order to evaluate the influence of em (0 and %1) and salt stress (0 mm, 50 mm, 100 mm and 150 mm) on the morphophysiological characteristics of pomegranate cv. shishe-kap, a factorial experiment was conducted based on the completely randomized desig...