We document that in M&As a significant proportion of targets’ equity is owned by financial institutions that simultaneously own targets’ bonds (“dual holders”). Targets with larger equity ownership by dual holders have lower M&A equity premia and larger abnormal bond returns, particularly when dual holders stand to benefit more from appreciation of their bond stakes, e.g., when their bond owner...

In this paper, we propose a dual-microphone target-directional speech enhancement system utilizing target-to-non-target directional signal ratio (TNR) based on dual-microphone phase differences in adverse noise environments. One of the important issues associated with multi-microphone speech enhancement methods is the effective utilization of spatial cues such as phase differences for target-sp...

In the present paper strong{monotonic, monotonic, weak{monotonic as well as dual strong{monotonic, dual monotonic and dual weak{monotonic reasoning is studied. We investigate the power of all types of monotonic and dual monotonic inference from positive as well as from positive and negative data in the context of algorithmic language learning theory, thereby obtaining strong hierarchies. Strong...

Monotonic and dual monotonic language learning from positive as well as from positive and negative examples is investigated. Three di erent notions of monotonicity are considered. Each of them re ects an alternative formalization of the requirement that the learner has to produce better and better generalizations when fed more and more data on the concept to be learned. Strong{monotonicity abso...

Multitarget agents have been extensively explored for solving limited efficacies, poor safety, and resistant profiles of an individual target. Theoretical approaches for searching and designing multitarget agents are critically useful. Here, the performance of molecular docking to search dual-target inhibitors for four kinase pairs (CDK2-GSK3B, EGFR-Src, Lck-Src, and Lck-VEGFR2) was assessed. F...