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Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times and founder of the school of English Literature at Cambridge University. He is of particular interest since his fiction was very often based on factual events which have now passed from memory. This volume, the first in a series, contains one of his best known sto...

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Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the effect that the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) 158 has on credit ratings for firms with defined benefit pension plans. The results show that, relative to other firms, firms that sponsor defined benefit pension plans have higher corporate credit ratings and that those scores decrease after the implementation of SFAS158. In addition, the more funded a defined benefit pension p...

Abstract: This research uses an event study to examine the impact on firm value of U.S. financial institutions as a result of receiving an enforcement action for violations of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction regulations. There are 989 enforcement actions that are hand-collected in the period from January 2000 to November 2018. The final sample includes 8, 948 firm-quarte...

Abstract: U.S. National Health Expenditures reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, accounting for 17.9% of the Gross Domestic Product and is expected to reach 19.4 percent within the next 10 years. In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs funded over 37% of all National Healthcare Expenditures, which is more than every private insurance company combined (CMS.gov, 2017b). Additionally, over 77% of hospitals provide services...

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the effect that the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) 158 has on credit ratings for firms with defined benefit pension plans. The results show that, relative to other firms, firms that sponsor defined benefit pension plans have higher corporate credit ratings and that those scores decrease after the implementation of SFAS158. In addition, the more funded a defined benefit pension p...

Abstract: This study investigates the valuation effect of capital structure, earnings quality, and operating efficiency on a hotel's firm. Dissertation Discovery Company and Jacksonville University are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Empirical Examination of the Valuation Effect of Capital Structure, Earnings Quality, and Operating Efficiency on Firms in the Ho...

Abstract: U.S. National Health Expenditures reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, accounting for 17.9% of the Gross Domestic Product and is expected to reach 19.4 percent within the next 10 years. In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs funded over 37% of all National Healthcare Expenditures, which is more than every private insurance company combined (CMS.gov, 2017b). Additionally, over 77% of hospitals provide services...

Abstract: This study investigates the valuation effect of capital structure, earnings quality, and operating efficiency on a hotel's firm. Dissertation Discovery Company and Jacksonville University are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Empirical Examination of the Valuation Effect of Capital Structure, Earnings Quality, and Operating Efficiency on Firms in the Ho...

Abstract: This research uses an event study to examine the impact on firm value of U.S. financial institutions as a result of receiving an enforcement action for violations of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction regulations. There are 989 enforcement actions that are hand-collected in the period from January 2000 to November 2018. The final sample includes 8, 948 firm-quarte...

Quantitative Aptitude is equally weighed section in any competitive examination. Quantitative Aptitude tests the mathematical ability and mathematical prowess of the aspirants and the questions on quantitative aptitude asked in various competitive examinations are not easy to solve without having enough practice. To help aspirants practice using varied types of questions and master their skills for the upcoming competitive and recruitment exam...

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Historien begynder for godt 150 år siden på en herregård i Østjylland, hvor hovedpersonen, herremandsdatteren Ane Kathrine Brun, vokser op. Faderen dør, da hun er meget ung, og moderen gifter sig herefter med en forgældet jægermester fra et andet gods. Det bliver til megen ulykke, og Ane Kathrine og hendes søskende flygter fra hjemmet. Ane Kathrine bor en tid hos en morbror, en anden herremand, men beslutter sig til at studere til farmaceut, f...

Communities serve as basic structural building blocks for understanding the organization of many real-world networks, including social, biological, collaboration, and communication networks. Recently, community search over graphs has attracted significantly increasing attention, from small, simple, and static graphs to big, evolving, attributed, and location-based graphs. In this book, we first review the basic concepts of networks, communiti...