This paper examines liquidity premium focusing on the difference between offshore and onshore hedge funds. Due to tax provisions and regulatory concerns, offshore and onshore hedge funds have different legal structures, which lead to differences in share restrictions such as a lockup provision. We find that offshore investors collect higher illiquidity premium when their investment has the same...

Global outsourcing – also known as offshore outsourcing -is generally dual sourcing involving both offshore and onshore activities because certain activities such as requirements analysis have to be performed onshore in consultation with users. The amount of onshore work or offshore work depends on the nature of IS being developed and vary among IS projects. Vendors charge higher hourly rate fo...

Wind energy has experienced dramatic growth over the past decade. A small fraction of this growth has occurred offshore, but as the best wind resources become developed onshore, there is increasing interest in the development of offshore winds. Like any form of power production, offshore wind energy has both positive and negative impacts. The potential negative impacts have stimulated a great d...

Offshore wind energy development is driven by ongoing research and to determine technological issues connected with offshore turbines. A fundamental design difficulty the turbine foundations. By far, one of most commonly practiced foundation systems mono helical pile foundations because their simplicity resilience. Most studies on piles were focused granular soils few clayey soils. However, in ...

In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely adopted structured software processes are effective in mitigating the negative effects of work dispersion in offshore software development. We explicate how the key process areas of the capability maturity model (CMM) can be utilized as a platform to launch learning...

The mechanical properties of non-vulcanized natural rubber and dialyzed natural rubber-clay nanocomposites have been studied by uniaxial deformations to evaluate the reinforcement efficiency of the clay. We show that while non-rubber molecules contribute to auto-reinforcement, removal of these molecules improves significantly the performance of clay as reinforcement agent. These mechanical prop...

[1] To understand the aqueous history of Mars, it is critical to constrain the alteration mineralogy of the Martian surface. Previously published analyses of thermal infrared (l = 6–25 mm) remote sensing data of Mars suggest that dark regions have 15–20% clay minerals. However, near-infrared (l = 1–3 mm) spectral results generally do not identify widespread clay minerals. Thermal infrared detec...