The leverage and debt maturity choices of real estate companies are interdependent, and are not made separately as is often assumed in the literature. We use three-stage least squares (3SLS) regression analysis to explore this interdependence for a sample of listed U.S. real estate companies and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) traded between 1973 and 2006.We find substantial differences i...

Electronic business provides many benefits to organizations that embrace on it. It is true that ebusiness improve business processes, integrate business processes and its corresponding value chain, give speed to internal and external organizational activities etc, but it poses the greatest challenge to today’s organizations to transform their traditional businesses into electronic business. To ...

Limnoperna fortunei is an invasive gonochoristic and byssate freshwater bivalve originary from Southeast Asia. It shows great adaptive-reproductive ability, so knowledge of the gonadal cycle is an important factor for the prevention and control of this bioinvasion. This species is highly damaging to natural and human environments. We analyzed the distribution and maturity state of reproductive ...

E-service development as an integral part of e-government is growing area so the assessment of maturity of these services is becoming increasingly relevant. This paper presents more precise method for the evaluation of e-service maturity. It is based on stage model, the service division into the components – operations and the statistics of intensity of their usage in traditional and electronic...

The orientation of this research was to evaluate the classic parameters regarding the external and internal quality of tomato fruits cv. 'Brilliant' at different stages of maturity and to define the dynamics of their changes during the ripening in storage at 18 C. Principal component analysis (PCA) and multivariate canonical discriminant analysis (DA) were used to classify tomato samples accor...

Abstract Garifta-merah is one of the mango varieties released by Ministry Agriculture in 2009 with advantage having red-yellow peel when it reaches full maturity. The distinctive taste fruit flesh makes types mangoes favored consumers local and foreign countries. As a new variety, there not much data regarding mango, especially optimal maturity stage to harvest. This study aims determine physic...

The aim of this study was to compare two tropical grass species, Panicum maximum and Digitaria eriantha, in terms of silage fermentation attributes and certain rumen fermentation characteristics of silage made either at the boot or full bloom stages of growth. A lower silage pH was recorded for the D. eriantha than for the P. maximum silage. Neither species nor maturity stage had a significant ...