The purpose of this research is to determine whether there is a relationship between capital
structure and firm performance of US firms in the Industrial, Healthcare, and Energy Sectors. …

This paper examines patterns of mortality and other demographic changes across the former
Soviet Union. Using regional data from the early 1990s, a simultaneous equations model of …

Annual data from 1961–94 are used to estimate a supply and demand model for the new
handgun market. The influence of price, income, expenditures on police protection, the violent …

For purposes of our discussion, we term the first hypothesis the" environmentalist" position.
Proponentsof this view believe that, just as growthand production may make excessive …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between changes in the
business cycle (as indicated by the incidence and duration of unemployment) and the …

The rapid increases in total reported crimes and reported crime rates over the past decade
have caused moimting public concern. On the governmental level, numerous programs for …

… d-spacings obtained from the ψ = 0 and ψ = 90 patterns gives the deviatoric strains F= (d 0
−d 90 )/3d P , whered P = (d 0 + 2d 90 )/3 is the d-… determined from the average d P using the …

Natural olivine with 12 mol % Fe 2 SiO 4 and synthetic orthopyroxenes with 20% and 40%
FeSiO 3 were studied beyond the pressure–temperature conditions of the core–mantle …

… in phase D is almost constant, the behavior of Si in phase D … D and the variation of chemical
composition in phase D which … for region I as D + SB ± St, region II as D + Pe ± St, and region …

This study on regional suicides stems from earlier work (Snipes, Cunha, and Hemley [2011])
that focused on changes in the business cycle and its impact on changes in the incidence of …