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Predicting the duration of leveraged buyouts.
We employ newly developed split hazard modeling to estimate the conditional probability that a firm eventually return to public status following a leveraged buyout (LBO), and the conditional probability of reversion to public status in a given year for a firm that eventually may reverse. Our results, based on 343 LBO transactions, imply that not all LBO firms expect eventual reversion to public status. In addition, we find that those LBO decisions that are expected to enhance value the most are less likely to reverse eventually. We also find that eventual reversal probabilities and the timing of reversals for divisional LBOs are not significantly different from full-firm LBOs.Leveraged buyouts;
Upper and Lower Bounds on Long Dual-Paths in Line Arrangements
Given a line arrangement with lines, we show that there exists a
path of length in the dual graph of formed by its
faces. This bound is tight up to lower order terms. For the bicolored version,
we describe an example of a line arrangement with blue and red lines
with no alternating path longer than . Further, we show that any line
arrangement with lines has a coloring such that it has an alternating path
of length . Our results also hold for pseudoline
arrangements.Comment: 19 page
N,N'-Bis(methoxycarbonyl)-2,5-dilnethylhexane-2,5-dialnine
There are two nearly planar NHCOO groups in the title molecule (dimethyl 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-hexanediyldicarbamate, C12H24N204). The individual molecules in the crystal are linked by hydrogen bonds.published_or_final_versio
Exploring South African high school teachersâ conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry: a case study
The paper explores conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI) held by five teachers who were purposively and conveniently sampled. Teachersâ conceptions of the NOSI were determined using a Probes questionnaire. To confirm teachersâ responses, a semi-structured interview was conducted with each teacher. The Probes questionnaire was based on six tenets of the nature of scientific inquiry but only three tenets are presented in this paper, namely: (1) scientists use a variety of methods to conduct scientific investigations; (2) scientific knowledge is socially and culturally embedded; and (3) scientific knowledge is partly the product of human creativity and imagination. The study found that the teachers held mixed NOSI conceptions. These conceptions were fluid and lacked coherence, ranging from static, empiricist-aligned to dynamic, constructivist-oriented conceptions. Although all participants expressed some views that were consistent with current, acceptable conceptions of NOSI, some held inadequate (naĂŻve) views on the crucial three NOSI tenets. The significance of this study rests in recommending explicit teaching of NOSI during pre-service and in-service training which enables teachers to possess informed conceptions about NOSI. With these informed conceptions, teachers may internalise the instructional importance of the NOSI which, in turn, may help avoid the lack of attention to NOSI currently evidenced in teachersâ instructional decisions. This might result in teachersâ orientations shifting towards an explicit inquiry-based approach from that of an implicit science process and discovery approach.Keywords: informed views; naĂŻve views; nature of scientific inquiry; NOSI tenets; scientific inquiry; scientific investigations; scientific method; teacher conception
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