The 1991 Delaware court ruling involving Credit Lyonnais expanded the fiduciary duties of managers towards debtholders in the event that a firm is within the proximity of insolvency. Using a difference-in-differences approach that exploits this exogenous shock, we find that the 1991 ruling induced managers of Delaware firms ex ante to place a greater emphasis on investments that foster long-ter...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bleaching agent action on color stability, surface roughness and microhardness of composites (Charisma, Filtek Supreme and Heliomolar - A2) submitted to accelerated artificial aging (AAA). METHODS A Teflon matrix (12 x 2 mm) was used to fabricate 18 specimens (n=6) which, after polishing (Sof-Lex), were submitted to initial color readin...

The Citizens United v. FEC United States Supreme Court decision in January of 2010 historically ruled that donating money to political causes is considered free speech under the constitution, and that corporations are people, thus giving them a constitutional right to donating money under the First Amendment. The ruling opened the floodgates for huge amounts of money into the US political syste...

Article history: Received 24 November 2011 Received in revised form 9 August 2013 Accepted 13 August 2013 Available online 27 August 2013 I study firmswith past asbestos ties that suffer from significant increases in legal liabilities after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1999. This event provides a natural experiment setting to estimate the indirect effects of financial distress on real activit...

providing emergent care, we hope to raise the collective responsiveness to the needs of the public. Mr Fesnak and Dr Rajput express concerns about physicians’ professional responsibility to promote fair and ethical stewardship of health care resources. Physicians may be uncomfortable with their role when they define their professional responsibilities from the narrow perspective of the physicia...

The FUL (featurally underspecified lexicon) system of automatic speech recognition is based on the representation of words in the lexicon with underspecified distinctive features. The speech signal is converted from the waveform into an online spectral representation made up of LPC formants and a few parameters describing the overall spectral shape. These spectral parameters are converted into ...

An explosion of Eighth Amendment challenges to lethal injection protocols has struck the federal courts. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Hill v. McDonough,1 which empowered prisoners to bring challenges to lethal injection procedures under 42 U.S.C. para. 1983, has facilitated a flood of new lethal injection cases. In response, several courts have ordered states to alter their protocols,...