C ~C.DI! ..JI~ T}l-e'/'~~ L.D " I ; ,;' Ct 0',"" () , ]..L/ 1 44q ~ 1'1~:> 7 The purpose of this work is to redefine the concept of covenant and to describe the potential use of this framework as a tool in premarital counseling. First a review of current literature will explore contemporary marital theory and address issues impacting marital satisfaction and stability. A ideological framework f...

We study the optimal strategic behaviour of the target of a business acquisition where the acquirer is afraid that the former may returns to the market after the sale, and therefore uses a non-competition covenant which protects her (new) business against the future competition from the target. Yet, as the target can return to the market any time after the covenant expiry date, the value of the...

This paper examines the effects of strategic alliances on non-financial firms’ bank loan financing. We construct several measures to capture firms’ alliance activities using the frequency of alliance activities, the prominence of the alliance partner and the relative networking position in the overall alliance network. We find that firms with active alliance involvement experience a lower cost ...

As mentioned in Section 2.1.2, other types of financial covenants have two main forms. One type specifies an upper bound on book leverage, or analogously a lower bound on book equity (book net worth). As book equity is closely related to the accumulation of past earnings, this can be broadly viewed as a variant of EBCs. The popularity of this type of covenant has declined in the past twenty yea...

Covenant Healthcare System is a 500-bed facility in Saginaw, Michigan. A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) program was instituted there in 1990 when it was St. Lukes Hospital. Over the course of 17 years, 30 nurses had been trained to place PICCs in their spare time. A "PICC, stick, and run team" was established in 1998 but was unsuccessful. After a merger with Saginaw General Hospi...

The concept of the nurse-patient covenant was explored using a multiple-method research design. Analysis of the literature (167 references) was the basis for 2 focus group interviews (12 nurses) and 8 semistructured patient interviews. Attributes, antecedents, and consequences were identified through an analysis of findings across all data sources. The nurse-patient covenant in cancer care is d...

Remember is one of the most frequently used verbs in the Book of Mormon. It is consistently used by its authors in a covenant context—establishing or renewing an eternal relationship with God, expressing and realizing the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and preserving the distinctive identity of a covenant people. The present study examines the complex and profound ways that the comple...

The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon

the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights contains no provisions concerning complaint procedure. the covenant’s emphasize on the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights had generated the idea that those categories of rights were, in principle, unjusticiable. the adoption of the draft optional protocol to the international covenant on economic, so...