a bench has been designed and built : it allows that a subject can be placed on a car seat excited in the vertical direction; the subject also has his hand on a vibrating steering wheel and can hear noises through headphones. Thus a realistic simulation of the environment of the driver of an engine car running at idle is possible. After measurements on six cars, three paired comparison tests ha...

Approximately 9,000 homes in Kenosha have a lead water service line that delivers fresh municipal water from the Kenosha Water Utility’s cast iron or plastic water mains located in public streets and rights of way, into individual homes that is used for drinking, bathing and cleaning. Th ese lead services lines that connect the fresh water mains to more than 9,000 families were installed prior ...

This study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. Several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. The findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...