Borrowing from multiple creditors exposes firms to liquidation risks due to coordination problems among creditors, but it also improves the firms’ repayment incentives, thereby increasing pledgeability. Based on this trade-off, I develop a dynamic debt rollover model to analyze the evolution of creditor dispersion. Consistent with empirical findings, firms optimally increase the number of credi...

The evaluation of the biomechanical performance that can be expected from alternative designs for restrained occupant rollover protection was approached through the use of finite element modeling. Finite element models of vehicle designs and the Hybrid III dummy were used to evaluate elements of alternative rollover occupant protection system designs. Results from rollover crash tests of a prod...

This study analysed the impact of turning rate, centre mass height, and road adhesion coefficient on rollover stability heavy-duty automated guided vehicles (AGVs) using a multi-body dynamics simulation model. The lateral deflection angle was used as metric to evaluate behaviour AGVs, results were obtained quantitatively. findings showed that rate had largest AGV stability, followed by while le...

background: footwear with a curved “rollover” sole is prescribed to improve walking capability. shoes with a curved sole profile have been reported to alter ankle, knee and hip kinematics and posture and thought to able to modify head and neck, and trunk posture. therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the immediate effects of rollover footwear on standing posture of head and neck, ...

This study investigated 478 police accident reports from 9 states to examine and characterize rollover crashes involving ESC-equipped vehicles. The focus was on the sequence of critical events leading to loss of control and rollover, and the interactions between the accident, driver, and environment. Results show that, while ESC is effective in reducing loss of control leading to certain rollov...

ASSET LEVELS GROWING: In 2011, there was $12.4 billion in health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), spread across 8.4 million accounts, according to data from the 2011 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey, sponsored by EBRI and Matthew Greenwald & Associates. This is up from 2006, when there were 1.3 million accounts with $873.4 million in assets...

OBJECTIVE A 2009 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that midsize SUVs with stronger roofs, as measured in quasi-static tests, had lower risk of ejection and lower risk of injury for nonejected drivers. The objective of the present study was to determine whether a similar association exists for other vehicle groups. METHODS Twelve small passenger cars were evaluated acco...

Rollover is one of the most dangerous events in driving Vehicles, specially the Sport Utility ones. This maneuver is the main reason for the majority of human and financial loss in transportation systems. The upcoming paper outlines the details as well as the plus points of a Fuzzy Logic Controller which is designed and simulated to reduce the rollover propensity of Vehicles, specially the ones...

INTRODUCTION Our objectives were to examine the activities and circumstances associated with agricultural machine-related rollover fatalities. METHODS We identified agricultural machine rollover fatalities recorded by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program (CAISP) in 1990-2005. We determined sideways and backwards rollovers by year, age and sex of the victims, agricultural seas...