Current bankruptcy legislation in many countries tends to follow the US model of Chapter 11, whereby the courts have the authority to stay the contractual rights of the secured creditors. The alternative approach of freedom of contracting whereby the privately negotiated debt contract defines a contingency that the courts strictly implement in the event of financial distress, is largely ignored...

The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. However, since a global regulation has not been reached yet, the EU is seeking ways to include the shipping sector in its greenhouse gas reduction...

A study examined two factorsthought to affect' an individuales preference for confrontation or avoidance gtrategies when ending a relationship -communicator agb and sex .:ole _orientation. Subjects were 29 fifth grade students, 64.bigh school sophomores, 43 college students, and 37 adults enrolled in a'night class. All subjects read a scenario from the Friendship Survey entitled "Letting .SoPeo...

Students may extend their Graduate UC Student Health Insurance Plan for up to two quarters if on an approved leave of absence. You must have been covered by UC SHIP in the term immediately preceding the term for which you want to purchase coverage or, if you waived enrollment in the prior coverage period, show proof of loss of the plan used to waive. Proof of loss means an official letter of te...

We study the effect of employee turnover on measures of firm performance and client retention in a firm where employees have decentralized knowledge and personal relationships with their clients. Using exogenous shocks to the relationship between borrowers and loan-officers, we document that borrowers are less likely to receive new loans from the bank and are more likely to apply for credit fro...

The explosion in the capability and number of applications for wireless data systems has allowed both personal and business consumers to become better connected to the world around them. The entire transportation industry is starting to benefit from this improved connectivity, as trucking companies are now able to communicate with their drivers more effectively. Improved fleet connectivity may ...

During the past year, Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories have been modeling and simulating cross-industry interactions between infrastructures and the cascading of impacts under disruption scenarios. Critical national infrastructures for importing and exporting goods and materials (e.g., seaboard shipping through ports on the U.S. East and West Coasts) require the support of oth...

Truckload carriers provide hundreds of $billions worth of services to shippers in the U.S. alone each year. Internet auctions provide these shippers with a fast, easy way to negotiate potential contracts with a large number of carriers. Combinatorial auctions have the added benefit of allowing multiple loads to be considered simultaneously in a single auction. This is important because it enabl...

BACKGROUND The Isle of Man is a UK crown dependency able to operate a category 1 shipping register, permitting its marine administration to register vessels of unlimited size and tonnage. Little is known about work related mortality among seafarers who are employed in Isle of Man registered shipping. OBJECTIVES To establish the causes and circumstances of all work related deaths among seafare...

This paper investigates important factors affecting the decisions of air freight forwarders in choosing air carriers and shipping routes. To examine the preferences and choice behavior across firms of various sizes, a total of 285 air freight forwarding firms offering air freight services from Taiwan to Asia or global were categorized into small, medium, and large by the average tons of cargo h...