1.1 Baldauf Bidding at a Tile Layer ...................................................................... 2 1.1.1 As-is Situation ........................................................................................ 2 1.1.2 Objectives ............................................................................................... 4 1.1.3 Approach ................................................

Corporate annual reports (CARs) are the subject of research emanating from different disciplines. A growing body of literature addresses their purpose, design, content and interpretation, as well as reasons for their changing content. This paper reviews examines (mainly post-1990) English-language, academic and practitioner literature analysing or commenting on CARs. The literature is examined ...

We present a new method for directly determining accurate, self-consistent cluster lens mass and shear maps in the strong lensing regime from the magnification bias of background galaxies. The method relies upon pixellisation of the surface mass density distribution which allows us to write down a simple, solvable set of equations. We also show how pixellisation can be applied to methods of mas...

There is significant evidence of variation in the penalties awarded in cases of plagiarism across the higher education sector, which has led to calls for standardisation of treatment. In this context, the annual reports of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) in the UK have identified increases in the numbers of complaints pertaining to judgements of academic mis...

In a society depending on real time information, corporate disclosure is crucial for the capital market efficiency. The more disclosures a company makes, the more transparent becomes the information to investors, the lower becomes the information asymmetry and more credible the firms will be for the market. The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between the voluntary disclo...

We report on the morphological luminosity functions (LFs) and radial profiles derived for the galaxy population within the rich cluster Abell 868 (z = 0.153) based purely on Hubble Space Telescope Imaging in F 606W. We recover Schechter functions (−24.

We analyse the distribution of Abell clusters of galaxies to study the regularity of the supercluster-void network. We apply a new method sensitive to the geometry of the location of clusters, and measure the goodness of regularity of the network. We find that the superclustervoid network resembles a cubical lattice over the whole space investigated. The distribution of rich superclusters is no...

We present two weak lensing reconstructions of the nearby (zcl = 0.055) merging cluster Abell 3667, based on observations taken ∼ 1 year apart under different seeing conditions. This is the lowest redshift cluster with a weak lensing mass reconstruction to date. The reproducibility of features in the two mass maps demonstrate that weak lensing studies of low-redshift clusters are feasible. Thes...

We have observed the galaxy environments around two complete samples of radio-loud (steep-spectrum) and radio-quiet quasars (RLQ and RQQ) at 0.5 ≤ z ≤ 0.8 that are matched in B-luminosity, and find that the environments of both quasar populations are practically indistinguishable. A few objects are found in relatively rich clusters, but on average, they seem to prefer galaxy groups or clusters ...