Changes in Corporate Governance Structures Preceding and Following Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The purpose of this study is to examine changes in corporate governance structures around the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Information was gathered for companies contained in the sample of the twenty largest Chapter 11 bankruptcies for the years 1995-1997. Data was collected for each company three years prior to filing, the year the company filed and three years post filing. The board of directors was classified into inside directors, gray directors and outside directors. Ownership was studied with regard to total board ownership in the company and the percentage each member held in comparison with other members. The members serving on the auditing committee and compensation committee were also recorded, as well as total committee size. Once the data was collected, the Wilcoxon Test and the matched pair test were used to detect significance. These tests both yielded a significant change for the following: a decrease in size of the audit committee, a decrease in the number of gray directors, a decrease in total board size, and an increase in the percentage of ownership per outside director. These restructuring changes support studies showing that certain characteristics of boards may prove to be more beneficial for a firm.B.S. (Bachelor of Science

Rhyming Phenomena in English Words

Investigations of English words and phrases have led scholars to the discovery of several rhyming phenomena as in such words as CRISSCROSS, POWWOW and BONBON. These types of rhyming were noted by Jespersen in his Modern English Grammar as well as Marchand in Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. The words fall in three groupings. consonantal rhymes, vowel rhymes, and repetition of the same syllable (or tautonyms). It is a real challenge to see how many of each you can discover

“ESPORTE E CULTURA: MOVIMENTO E CRIAÇÃO” Apresentação esquematizada de um exemplo de formação artístico-pedagógica na Escola Superior de Esportes de Colônia: Teatro de movimento/Jogo-Música-Dança, uma área de estudos interdisciplinar no curso de graduação

É possível criar ligações entre esporte e arte de diversas formas, entendendo-se esporte de maneira ampla e diversificada e definido como uma área do movimento, em suas possíveis manifestações, uma área abrangente da cultura do movimento, com interesses e manifestações da cultura lúdica, expressiva, esportiva e da saúde e não apenas no âmbito das disciplinas esportivas específicas e suas técnicas de movimento

Scanning electron microscopy of Meloidogyne incognita juveniles entrapped in maize roots by a nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys dactyloides

During a study on the presence and location of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 within maize roots, a nematode-trapping fungus, Arthrobotrys dactyloides was observed for the first time on maize in South Africa

Holographic transport with topological term and entropy function

In this paper we consider the effect of a topological Maxwell term $W(\Phi)F_{\mu\nu}\tilde F^{\mu\nu}$ on holographic transport and thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensions, in the case with a dyonic black hole in the gravity dual. We find that for a constant $W$ the modifications to the thermodynamics are easily quantified, and transport is affected only for $\sigma_{xy}$. If one consider also the attractor mechanism, and writing the horizon transport in terms of charges, the transport coefficients are affected explicitly. We also introduce the case of case of radially dependent $W(z)$, in which case, however, analytical calculations become very involved. We also consider the implications of the two models for the S-duality of holographic transport coefficients.Comment: 25 pages, no figures; clarifications adde

Susceptibilities from holographic transport with topological term

In this note we calculate susceptibilities, as derivatives of a thermodynamical potential, for the general perturbative holographic set-up for transport with magnetic field, charge density and topological term, and compare with the quantities obtained in the standard $AdS_4$ dyonic black hole analysis of Hartnoll and Kovtun. We find that the results do not match, despite previous expectations.Comment: 17 pages, no figure