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...

On the 18th June the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution (A/HRC/8/L.18) on ‘The elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.’ This historic resolution was sponsored by 59 member states and made specific reference to key earlier documents, namely the Universal of Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the Internation...