If a document is written using a computer then it obviously makes sense for it to be read on the same medium. But how will the ordinary man-in-the-street react to this? How will he react to sitting down at a terminal instead of browsing through bookshelves? How will he react to scanning a screenful of text rather than feeling the ‘physicalness’ of a real book? What facilities will he expect? Wh...

Despite of their rising popularity, current cloud storage services and cloud-backed storage systems still have some limitations related to reliability, durability assurances and inefficient file sharing. We present SCFS, a cloud-backed file system that addresses these issues and provides strong consistency and near-POSIX semantics on top of eventually-consistent cloud storage services. SCFS pro...

the main aim of this research is jurisprudential feasibility of receivable-backed securities dividends. liquidity management and correct guidance of them toward the productive sector is necessary for a developing country. due to the high percentage of receivable dividend in iran's capital market and the time-consuming nature of receivable dividend in investment companies, which leads to re...

This paper analyzes a comprehensive data set of 108 non venture-backed, 58 venture-backed and 33 bridge financed companies going public at Germany’s Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2000. I examine whether these three types of issues differ with regard to issuer characteristics, balance sheet data or offering characteristics. Moreover, this empirical study contributes to the underpricin...

There are several types of designs used for unicompartmental tibial components. The all-plastic inlay component is recessed and it preserves bone around the outer edge of the tibia. For an onlay component, the entire condyle is resected, and the plastic bearing is usually metal-backed, although all-plastic components are also available. The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesi...

At the time of an initial public offering, shares in a firm are typically held by venture capitalists, insiders, corporate investors, and angel investors. We examine the role of angel investors in the IPO process. We find that angel investors provide equity capital in industries that venture capitalists are less likely to serve and that shareholders in angel backed IPO firms are more likely to ...

We present a new theory about underpricing and Venture Capital-backed (VC-backed) companies where the key feature is capacity constraints Venture Capital firms can take only a limited number of new projects. This model can match the evidence gathered by the empirical literature on the grandstanding hypothesis, i.e., that younger Venture Capitalists rush to Initial Public Offers (IPOs). Moreover...

China’s real estate market develops fast. And the demand for housing mortgage is increasing at the same time. However, because of its long period and poor liquidity, the increasing personal housing mortgage will inevitably add more risks for commercial banks in their asset-debt management. It is a must to apply the housing mortgage-backed securitization. This paper discusses the development of ...

We investigate the decisions of listed firms to go private once again. We start by revealing that while a significant number of firms which go public is VC-backed, an overproportional share of these VC-backed firms go private later on (they stay on the exchange for an average of 8.5 years). We interpret this very robust pattern such that IPOs of VC-backed firms are to a large extent a temporary...

One hundred seventy-five patients with 243 consecutive primary Press Fit Condylar cruciate-substituting total knee replacements were evaluated at a mean of 5.5 years. One hundred thirteen knees had modular metal-backed tibial components and 130 had all-polyethylene tibial components. The mean knee score and functional score for the patients with unrevised components was not significantly differ...