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The Impact Of Institutional Stock Ownership On A Firm's Earnings Management Practice: An Empirical Investigation, Santanu Mitra

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines whether institutional investor shareholdings inhibit firm managers from engaging in earnings management practice. It investigates the empirical association between discretion/flexibility available to managers in managing abnormal non-cash working capital accruals and institutional stock ownership for a sample of 386 New York Stock Exchange firms over a period of 8 years, from 1991 through 1998. The differential institutional influence on the level of accrual management of firms having different information environment, S&P 500 versus non S&P 500, is also examined to see whether the difference in information environment of these two sets of firms has any effect on …

Concert Recording 2002-03-02, Ronda Mains, Mary Scott Spry

Concert Recordings & Programs

Vocalise opus 34, number 14 / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Sonata. Allegro cantabile ; Aria ; Allegro scherzando / Otar Taktakishvili -- Concerto, opus 8 / Otar Gordeli -- Sonata in D major, opus 94. Moderaarato ; Allegretto scherzando ; Andante ; Allegro con brio / Sergei Prokofieff

Concert Recording 2002-11-10, Ronda Mains, James Greeson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata, op. 205. Allegro grazioso ; Tempo di Siciliana ; Allegro con spirito / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- Toward the sea. The night ; Moby Dick ; Cape Cod / Toru Takemitsu -- Sonata no. 1 in D major. Adagio ; Allegro ; Adagio ; Allegro / George Frideric Handel -- L'aube enchantee sur le raga "Todi" (The enchanted garden). First part ; Second part / Ravi Shankar

Preliminary Results From A Survey On The Prevalence Of Parasitic Helminths And Protozoa In Raccoons, Opossums, And Skunks, Michelle Belviy, T. A. Yazwinski, C. A. Tucker, Jennifer Robins

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Raccoons, skunks, and opossums (N=57, 60, and 60, respectively) were necropsied for parasite detection and identification from September, 2001 until April, 2002. Qualitative coprological exams and adult Baylisascaris collections have been completed. Fecal stages and/or types found were Baylisascaris and Strongyloides-type (skunks and raccoons); Capillaria and Trichostrongyletype (raccoons and opossums); Acanthacephalan and ascarid type (opossums only); free larvae (skunks only); and coccidial (protozoan) oocysts (all three host species). Adult Baylisascaris were recovered from 33.3% of the raccoons and 58.3% of the skunks. Data collection relative to this survey, which is still ongoing, includes the determination of Sarcocystis prevalence in excised …

2002 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for January of 2002.

Collective Intentionality And Individual Behavior, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

On The Modular Curve X(6) And Surfaces Admitting Genus 2 Fibrations, Gülay Karadoğan

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this paper, we study the moduli spaces of surfaces admitting nonsmooth genus 2 fibrations with slope \lambda = 6 (necessarily) over curves of genus \geq 1. We determine the structure of each connected component of these moduli spaces. Our results fill the gap of earlier work in the literature to complete the picture of the moduli spaces of genus 2 fibrations over curves of genus \geq 2 except for the case of \lambda = 4.

By How Much Does Conflict Reduce Financial Development?, Tony Addison, Abdur Chowdhury, Syed M. Murshed

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Financial development is vulnerable to social conflict. Conflict reduces the demand for domestic currency as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Conflict also leads to poor quality governance, including weak regulation of the financial system, thereby undermining the sustainability of financial institutions. Conflict therefore reduces the social return to financial liberalization and other financial-sector reforms. This paper presents a theoretical model integrating the effects of conflict and financial liberalization, and then tests the model on data for 79 countries. Using an explanatory variable that measures the intensity of conflict (from low to high) the results show that …

What Determines Public Education Expenditures In A Transition Economy?, Inna Verbina, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Recent studies suggest that the allocation of expenditures in education matters for growth. Public education spending in many transition economies, however, is often inefficient and inequitable with education outlays misallocated across sectors. This highlights the need for an assessment of the nature of education expenditures in these countries. This paper attempts to fill the gap in the literature by estimating the determinants of education expenditures in the Russian Federation. Results from panel data analysis show that revenue and the student-population ratio have a positive impact on education expenditures while the effect of population density is negative. Three regional variables also …

Scenarios For Santa Elena [Powerpoint], 2002, Lynda Schneekloth

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Presentation on the methology, analysis, and suggestions for 3 different scenario plans in Santa Elena.

The "Income-Variance" Risk Factor And Jones & Laughlin V. Pfeifer Guidelines For The Calculation Of Present Value, Charles Breeden

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Persistence Of Profits : Intra-And Inter-Sector Comparisons / Liew Toh Peng, Toh Peng Liew

Student Works (2000-2009)

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Phosphorus Uptake In Centaurea Biebersteinii Dc. And Native Lupinus Argenteus Pursh. Across A Phosphorus Gradient, Vince Archer

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Population Genetics And Conservation Of The Freshwater Mussel Margaritifera Falcata From The Northwestern United States, Lindsay P. Anderson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Community In The Classroom : A Research Synthesis, Martha Cheney

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Vole Use Of Coarse Woody Debris And Its Implications For Habitat And Fuel Management, Dalit Ucitel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Internal Health Locus Of Control: A Description Of High And Low Orientation And Approaches To Coping With Scleroderma, Karen Marlene Elliott

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Body Fat On Substrate Utilization During Aerobic Exercise, Lori Looper

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Assessing Landsat Tm Imagery For Mapping And Monitoring Prairie Dog Colonies, Willard A. Gustafson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Do Highways Influence Population Connectivity In Small Mammals?, Reesa Yale Conrey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Discharge Variation On Suspended Sediment And Particulate Contaminant Transport Through Milltown Reservoir Montana, Jan A. Shifflett

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

On The Need For A Subsumptive Evaluative Approach: Societal Evaluation And Devaluation Of Art Works And Artistic Practice, Julie Wills Sleightholm

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Mapping Horse Trials And Events: A Survey Of Emergency Response Capabilities, Jennifer Wicks

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Ice Water Land And Time: A Partial Story Of Glacial Lake Missoula And The Missoula Floods, Daniel Peter Berger

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Portland Digit Recognition Test The Test Of Memory Malingering And Standard Neuropsychological Measures: Comparing Efficacy The Effects Of Coaching And Face Validity, Melody L. Huskey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Pain Perception Differences By Personality A In Females After Sport Competition Or Controlled Intervention, Debby M. Kittel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Demographics Of Death In A Rural Western Town: A Survey Of Indicators For Use In A Socio-Medical Project In Missoula Mt 1996, Patricia G. Blandford-Nichols

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Pre-Restoration Characteristics Of Upper Willow Creek Granite County Montana., Michael Sanctuary

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Grammaticalization Lexicalization And Russian Amalgams, Natalia I. Kalachev

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Magical And The Mundane: Individualism, Corporate Identity, And Postmodern Pastiche In The Detective Novels Of Haruki Murakami, Diana Lynn Garland

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

In Murakami's detective novels, pop culture references, irony, and hard-boiled genre conventions combine with magic realist prose to articulate the search for individual identity in a Japanese milieu structured by traditional communal values. At the same time, Murakami's work remains grounded in Japanese literary tradition, and he sees himself very much as a product of modern Japan. The thesis traces the blending of these diverse tendencies in three of Murakami’s most popular novels: A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Dance, Dance, Dance.

The Introduction provides an overview of the product, …