This study investigates the degree to which African Americans participate in the sound changes currently in progress in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina. It is based on a sample of 60 African Americans native to the area, recorded during sociolinguistic interviews; spontaneous speech is supplemented with word list reading and minimal-pair tests. The speech of 20 of the informants has b...

We investigate the stellar composition of bulges and elliptical galaxies as predicted by the CDM paradigm using semi-analytical modelling. We argue that spheroid stars are built up of two main components, merger and quiescent, according to the origin of the stars. The merger component is formed during major mergers by gas driven to the centre, while the quiescent component is formed in gaseous ...

During the idiosyncratic process of post-merger integration, how do the pre-existing characteristics of the two merging organizations influence the behavioral dynamics of the combined entity? This thesis proposal describes an investigation into the dynamics during the complex and vulnerable integration process along three fundamental dimensions: (a) knowledge transfer, (b) culture transmission,...

Leadership appointment during mergers has a logical and established precedent when there is a clear target and acquirer. However, in the extraordinary case of Merger Of Equals (MOEs) – where this is relatively equal ownership, board representation, earnings contribution etc this process is much less defined and can often have serious consequences on the merger, both in closing negotiations as w...

Company mergers and acquisitions reached their peak in the twenty-first century. Mergers and acquisitions have become one of the competitive strategies for external growth. In general, it is believed that mergers and acquisitions can create synergies. However, they require complete information technology system and service integration, especially in the banking industry. Much of the research ha...

We study the significance of major-merger-driven star formation in the early Universe, by quantifying the contribution of this process to the total star formation budget in 80 massive (M∗ > 10 10 M⊙) galaxies at z ≃ 2. Employing visually-classified morphologies from rest-frame V -band HST imaging, we find that 55% of the star formation budget is hosted by non-interacting late-types, with 27% in...

Inference on partially identified parameters has now become a standard tool kit for econometricians. Econometric models and properties of available data sets are such that it is often impossible to point-identify parameters of interest even if the sample size is infinity and the exact data generating process is available to econometricians without sampling noise. Numerous papers have been writt...

Financial support from IFM2 and SSHRC are gratefully acknowledged. The usual disclaimer applies. Please do not quote without the authors' permission. Abstract. We study M&A activity in the US mutual fund industry over the period 1962-2009. Any improvement in abnormal performance around M&As accrues primarily to target unitholders. The risk level of acquirers increases around such transactions. ...

We numerically investigate how minor and major galaxy merging between two late-type disks affects mass distribution of interstellar medium (ISM) surrounding the haloes of disk galaxies. The purpose of this study is to explore dynamical effects of galaxy merging on gas replenishment from galactic haloes, which is generally considered to play vital roles in various aspects of disk galaxy evolutio...

Historically, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have provided only limited details of their merger enforcement policies. While the various iterations of the Merger Guidelines1 provided insight into the analytical framework the agencies use to review mergers, there was little guidance illustrating how agency staff and decision makers weighe...