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Investors Activism and the Gains from Takeover Deals
We examine whether activists add value to the shareholders of targets and their acquirers. Several findings emerge. First, acquirers of targets that have activists outperform acquirers of other targets in both the short and long term. Second, the premium received by the shareholders of targets is not affected by activism. Third, superior gains achieved by the acquirers of targets with activists are driven by non-cash deals, while the average target benefits more from cash deals
An improvement of isochronous mass spectrometry: Velocity measurements using two time-of-flight detectors
Isochronous mass spectrometry (IMS) in storage rings is a powerful tool for
mass measurements of exotic nuclei with very short half-lives down to several
tens of microseconds, using a multicomponent secondary beam separated in-flight
without cooling. However, the inevitable momentum spread of secondary ions
limits the precision of nuclear masses determined by using IMS. Therefore, the
momentum measurement in addition to the revolution period of stored ions is
crucial to reduce the influence of the momentum spread on the standard
deviation of the revolution period, which would lead to a much improved mass
resolving power of IMS. One of the proposals to upgrade IMS is that the
velocity of secondary ions could be directly measured by using two
time-of-flight (double TOF) detectors installed in a straight section of a
storage ring. In this paper, we outline the principle of IMS with double TOF
detectors and the method to correct the momentum spread of stored ions.Comment: Accepted by Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research,
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Elucidating the Limit of Li Insertion into the Spinel Li4Ti5O12
In this work, we show that the well-known lithium-ion anode material, Li4Ti5O12, exhibits exceptionally high initial capacity of 310 mAh g-1 when it is discharged to 0.01 V. It maintains a reversible capacity of 230 mAh g-1, far exceeding the "theoretical" capacity of 175 mAh g-1 when this anode is lithiated to the composition Li7Ti5O12. Neutron diffraction analyses identify that additional Li reversibly enters into the Li7Ti5O12 to form Li8Ti5O12. density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal the average potentials of the Li4Ti5O12 to Li7Ti5O12 step and the Li7Ti5O12 to Li8Ti5O12 step are 1.57 and 0.19 V, respectively, which are in excellent agreement with experimental results. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies confirm that the irreversible capacity of Li4Ti5O12 during its first cycle originates from the formation of a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer. This work clarifies the fundamental lithiation mechanism of the Li4Ti5O12, when lithiated to 0.01 V vs Li
ARPES observation of isotropic superconducting gaps in isovalent Ru-substituted Ba(FeRu)As
We used high-energy resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to
extract the momentum dependence of the superconducting gap of Ru-substituted
Ba(FeRu)As ( K). Despite a strong
out-of-plane warping of the Fermi surface, the magnitude of the superconducting
gap observed experimentally is nearly isotropic and independent of the
out-of-plane momentum. More precisely, we respectively observed 5.7 meV and 4.5
meV superconducting gaps on the inner and outer -centered hole Fermi
surface pockets, whereas a 4.8 meV gap is recorded on the M-centered electron
Fermi surface pockets. Our results are consistent with the model with
a dominant antiferromagnetic exchange interaction between the next-nearest Fe
neighbors.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Determinants of immediate price impacts at the trade level in an emerging order-driven market
The common wisdom argues that, in general, large trades cause large price
changes, while small trades cause small price changes. However, for extremely
large price changes, the trade size and news play a minor role, while the
liquidity (especially price gaps on the limit order book) is a more influencing
factor. Hence, there might be other influencing factors of immediate price
impacts of trades. In this paper, through mechanical analysis of price
variations before and after a trade of arbitrary size, we identify that the
trade size, the bid-ask spread, the price gaps and the outstanding volumes at
the bid and ask sides of the limit order book have impacts on the changes of
prices. We propose two regression models to investigate the influences of these
microscopic factors on the price impact of buyer-initiated partially filled
trades, seller-initiated partially filled trades, buyer-initiated filled
trades, and seller-initiated filled trades. We find that they have
quantitatively similar explanation powers and these factors can account for up
to 44% of the price impacts. Large trade sizes, wide bid-ask spreads, high
liquidity at the same side and low liquidity at the opposite side will cause a
large price impact. We also find that the liquidity at the opposite side has a
more influencing impact than the liquidity at the same side. Our results shed
new lights on the determinants of immediate price impacts.Comment: 21 IOP tex pages including 5 figures and 5 tables. Accepted for
publication in New Journal of Physic
Approaches to Investigate Selective Dietary Polysaccharide Utilization by Human Gut Microbiota at a Functional Level
The human diet is temporally and spatially dynamic, and influenced by culture, regional food systems, socioeconomics, and consumer preference. Such factors result in enormous structural diversity of ingested glycans that are refractory to digestion by human enzymes. To convert these glycans into metabolizable nutrients and energy, humans rely upon the catalytic potential encoded within the gut microbiome, a rich collective of microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract. The development of high-throughput sequencing methods has enabled microbial communities to be studied with more coverage and depth, and as a result, cataloging the taxonomic structure of the gut microbiome has become routine. Efforts to unravel the microbial processes governing glycan digestion by the gut microbiome, however, are still in their infancy and will benefit by retooling our approaches to study glycan structure at high resolution and adopting next-generation functional methods. Also, new bioinformatic tools specialized for annotating carbohydrate-active enzymes and predicting their functions with high accuracy will be required for deciphering the catalytic potential of sequence datasets. Furthermore, physiological approaches to enable genotype-phenotype assignments within the gut microbiome, such as fluorescent polysaccharides, has enabled rapid identification of carbohydrate interactions at the single cell level. In this review, we summarize the current state-of-knowledge of these methods and discuss how their continued development will advance our understanding of gut microbiome function
Effective electro-optical modulation with high extinction ratio by a graphene-silicon microring resonator
Graphene opens up for novel optoelectronic applications thanks to its high
carrier mobility, ultra-large absorption bandwidth, and extremely fast material
response. In particular, the opportunity to control optoelectronic properties
through tuning of Fermi level enables electro-optical modulation,
optical-optical switching, and other optoelectronics applications. However,
achieving a high modulation depth remains a challenge because of the modest
graphene-light interaction in the graphene-silicon devices, typically,
utilizing only a monolayer or few layers of graphene. Here, we comprehensively
study the interaction between graphene and a microring resonator, and its
influence on the optical modulation depth. We demonstrate graphene-silicon
microring devices showing a high modulation depth of 12.5 dB with a relatively
low bias voltage of 8.8 V. On-off electro-optical switching with an extinction
ratio of 3.8 dB is successfully demonstrated by applying a square-waveform with
a 4 V peak-to-peak voltage.Comment: 12 pages, including 7 figure
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