E xecutive compensation is a topic that has received attention both in the media and the academic literature. This article discusses issues relevant to the construction and interpretation of compensation …gures typically reported in both sources. First, it is not clear what precisely should be included within a measure of the chief executive o¢ cer’s (CEO’s) income tied to his …rm. Second, the ...

This paper introduces the idea of a non-kinship-based Universal-family firm, an organizational form we developed based on interpreting historical writings in their socio-economic context. We analyzed Luke’s gospel with an eye toward drawing implications for the stewardship-agency debate in the contemporary family business literature. Our paper makes contributions at two important levels. In add...

For quantitative determination of lignin, we have invasive (gravimetric determination i. e. ASTM, TAPPI, SCAN) and non-invasive methods on our disposal. Invasive methods are not suitable for historical documents. On the other hand, several spectroscopic techniques are in use, based on IR and UV spectroscopy. The absorption of light of λ > 300 310 nm by pure cellulose is minimal and most UVspect...

Humans are often called the smallest units of history. Any historical event can be traced back to the acts, decisions and thoughts of individuals. Simultaneously, these individuals share a lot of common character traits. They were born, have parents, most go to school, some have siblings, they died or will die and many of them have a career of some sort. The most famous individuals also have a ...

This article explores the possible influence between certain works by Robert Browning and Edgar Allan Poe, composed published very close in time, which deal with similar themes share literary strategies techniques. Although possibility that they might have been reading each other’s work is supported their respective correspondences Elizabeth Barrett Browning, similarities could also be attribut...

DIVE is a linked-data digital cultural heritage collection browser. It was developed to provide innovative access to heritage objects from heterogeneous collections, using historical events and narratives as the context for searching, browsing and presentating of individual and group of objects. This paper describes the DIVE Web Demonstrator. This demonstrator uses semantics from existing colle...

crowdsourcing should be aware of the approach’s significant limitations and biases, and of the need to sort through and verify large amounts of information of uneven reliability. Furthermore, crowdsourcing tends to work better when the goal is to quickly compile and share knowledge that is already available, rather than as a means to engage in original research. Crowdsourcing cannot replace mor...

In this paper, we investigate the use of temporal information for improving extractive summarization of historical articles. Our method clusters sentences based on their timestamps and temporal similarity. Each resulting cluster is assigned an importance score which can then be used as a weight in traditional sentence ranking techniques. Temporal importance weighting offers consistent improveme...

This paper presents a scheme for generating paper texture of historical documents. A new entropy based segmentation algorithm is used to decompose the image of documents into the image of the paper background and the printing of the document. Statistical analysis allows filling in the gaps from the printing, yielding a blank sheet of paper with similar texture to the original document.