Asset-backed securitization will greatly promote the sustainability of infrastructure construction and financing. However, there are quite limited researches conducted in this field. Given project characteristics securities, paper proposes issuance steps redeemable asset-backed notes (ABN) based on project’s usufruct as basic asset. Taking expressway franchise an example, issuing scale coupon r...

circularly-polarized antenna is built based on new SIW(substrate integrated waveguide)structure which contains cavity-backed resonator and a conventional polarized ring with twosquare slits in inner and outer ring that differ 90° at position and is proposed for right-handedcircular polarization (RHCP) and fabricated in two separate layers. A broadband impedancebandwidth of 13.9% and a RHCP axia...

Different organochlorine compounds (OCs) were measured in the blood of breeding south polar skuas (Catharacta maccormicki) at Svarthamaren, Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica) and compared to those in two species of northern hemisphere gulls: the Arctic glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) and the subarctic great black-backed gull (Larus marinus). The skuas had 8% and 29% of the SigmaOC levels (45 ng/...

In order to realize high performance database systems, it is very much important to develop a method for high-speed backup as well as method to realize high-speed database operations. Although semiconductor memory is getting less expensive, disks are still important to realize reliable large database systems due to their characteristics; low cost, large capacity and nonvolatileness. If system d...

This study explores the effect of directors' political contributions on IPOs' valuation and firm survival. We find that individual by directors bring significant benefits to IPO firms. Specifically, we show board members, particularly those CEOs founders, increase premium survivability relationship between is strong among non-venture-backed firms, while link survival more pronounced for venture...

This study examines the effects of the Innovation Fund for Small and Medium Technology-based Firms (Innofund), one of the largest Chinese government programs that support corporate R&D activities on corporate innovation outputs. We study the general effects of Innofund on innovation. By exploring institutional variations over time and across regions, we also examine the effect of institutions o...

Ecosystems provide a vast array of services for human societies, but understanding how various organisms contribute to the functions that maintain these services remains an important ecological challenge. Predators can affect ecosystem functions through a combination of top-down trophic cascades and bottom-up effects on nutrient dynamics. As the most abundant vertebrate predator in many eastern...

Contrary to what is observed in Fennoscandia, it seems to be widely accepted that small mammals do not exhibit multi-annual population cycles in the boreal forest of North America. However, in the last thirty years, irruptions of vole predators such as owls have been reported by ornithologists south of the North American boreal forest. While such southerly irruptions have been associated in Fen...

This paper presents the first study of the UV imaging of spots on thin-layer chromatographic plates whilst still wet with solvent. Imaging of spots of benzophenone during and after development was carried out using a charge-coupled device camera. Limits of detection were found to be 5 ng on a wetted plate and 3 ng for a dry plate and the relationship between peak area and sample loading was fou...