… So that gold’s real price equals a linear function of the after-tax required yield, up to a
multiplicative constant C. In Appendix B, we show that the constant C can be interpreted as the real …

We investigate how media attention to large-scale corporate scandals has changed over time,
and how the clustering of different scandals alters media attention to individual scandals. …

… The parameter c represents the marginal cost of producing copies of the commercial product…
It can also be negligible if the marginal cost c is near zero, for example, when shareware is …

The replacement of excretory kidney function by dialysis or by renal transplantation has not
only improved the survival of the patients with end-stage renal failure, but has revealed a …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the historical context and describes the different
contourite facies recognized. The contourite facies models are outlined and the interpretation …

Different examples of modern marine-sand accumulations generated or strongly influenced
by the action of bottom currents, are here presented. They are drawn from a variety of …

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We examine how various types of
shareholder activists (such as pension funds and large blockholders) impact the relative use of …

We investigate the differences in the holdings of institutional investors relative to individual
investors during an eight-month period between March and November 2000, where the …

… La nécessité d’effectifs statistiquement représentatifs, compte tenu de l’importante variabilité
des phénomènes étudiés, nous a obligé à congeler (- 200 C) divers lots de moustiques …

… At this point, if the vector c(nn) is independent from the vectors in C, we are in the case … c(m)
involves only the product of a matrix by a vector of size D(f). If an echelon form of the matrix C …