Prior research, especially in the UK, has established a positive relationship, in crosssectional regression analyses, between market value and dividends. This result holds after controlling for the effects of earnings, book value, major media advertising expenditures, research and development expenditures, capital expenditures, capital contributions and ‘other information’. Papers with this res...

I the first weeks of the Syrian uprising that began in March 2011, religious symbols and figures rapidly emerged as important components of the movement. Allah Akbar (“God is the Greatest”) was often shouted, along with liberal slogans like “God, Syria, Freedom, and that’s it!” Certain Muslim scholars or ulama became iconic figures of the protests, and many demonstrations took place in and arou...

Majid Naderi Shadi Tabibian Maryam Sadat Hosseini Shaban Alizadeh Soudabeh Hosseini Hossein Karami Hassan Mahmoodi Nesheli Akbar Dorgalaleh Departement Of Pediatrics Hematology & Oncology, Ali Ebn-e Abitaleb Hospital Research Center For Children And Adolescents Health [RCCAH], Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran Department of Hematology, Allied Medical School, Tehran Univer...

No detailed information regarding pestilences in Bengal is available before the Mohammedan period. Farishta, a contemporary of Akbar, mentions the occurrence of bubonic plague in Bihar in 1548. A very devastating pestilence ravaged Gaur*, the medieval capital of Bengal, in 1573. During this epidemic ' Thousands died daily; living were wearied with burying the dead. Corpses of Hindus and Mohamme...

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SPREAD-SPECTRUM CHANNELS Eko N. Onggosanusi, Barry D. Van Veen, and Akbar M. Sayeed Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin{Madison Madison, WI 53706 [email protected],fvanveen,[email protected] ABSTRACT A spread-spectrum spatio-temporal signaling scheme based on electric eld polarization is proposed. The information symbol is transmitted via two perpendicul...