Blended approach for Russian as second language grammar teaching

The particular application of computer-aided technologies for Teaching of Grammar of Russian as Second Language has already given phenomenal results, while being applied at the United States Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning

Impact of financial leverage on dividend policy at Tehran Stock Exchange: A case study in food industry

This paper examines the relationship between dividend policy and financial leverage of 33 food companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange with 242 data ‚during the period 2003 to 2010. Dividend policy‚ vastly followed by the companies ‚was tested by applying the extend model of Linter (1956) with the debt ratio of the firm ‚the current year’s dividend yield as its independent variables and change in earnings as a dummy variable. At first ‚the descriptive statistics for our entire variables were calculated and then correlation matrix was calculated to identify the preliminary relationship among all the variables‚ followed by regression analysis on panel data to examine the significance and magnitude through fixed and random effects model. Theoretical assertion were justified through random effect model that the level of corporate debt (leverage) and widely practiced dividend policy ‚ significantly ‚ affect the dividend policy of the Iranian firms. The factors affecting dividend policy included sources and uses of funds set, why and how to select a particular source‚ according to requirements of the outside environment and also dominant phenomena within the company. In such circumstances‚ this current research has tried to focus on financial performance of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange to examine effects. This research aimed to explore the impact of financial leverage‚ dividend policy in food industry companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange Market. For this purpose‚ Independent variables in debt ratio‚ Stock returns and changes in Food group income from Stock are collected. Dividend per share is considered as only variable dividend policy that accounts for behavior of corporate managers in corporate financial decision. Food industry companies have positive effect on variables in dividend yield and changes income‚ but debt ratio has no meaningful relationship on dividend per share. It has only positive relationship‚ if the rate of debt ratio is less than dividend yield. When rate of debt ratio is more than dividend yield‚ it has negative relationship

Impact of financial leverage on dividend policy at Tehran Stock Exchange: A case study in food industry

This paper examines the relationship between dividend policy and financial leverage of 33 food companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange with 242 data ‚during the period 2003 to 2010. Dividend policy‚ vastly followed by the companies ‚was tested by applying the extend model of Linter (1956) with the debt ratio of the firm ‚the current year’s dividend yield as its independent variables and change in earnings as a dummy variable. At first ‚the descriptive statistics for our entire variables were calculated and then correlation matrix was calculated to identify the preliminary relationship among all the variables‚ followed by regression analysis on panel data to examine the significance and magnitude through fixed and random effects model. Theoretical assertion were justified through random effect model that the level of corporate debt (leverage) and widely practiced dividend policy ‚ significantly ‚ affect the dividend policy of the Iranian firms. The factors affecting dividend policy included sources and uses of funds set, why and how to select a particular source‚ according to requirements of the outside environment and also dominant phenomena within the company. In such circumstances‚ this current research has tried to focus on financial performance of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange to examine effects. This research aimed to explore the impact of financial leverage‚ dividend policy in food industry companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange Market. For this purpose‚ Independent variables in debt ratio‚ Stock returns and changes in Food group income from Stock are collected. Dividend per share is considered as only variable dividend policy that accounts for behavior of corporate managers in corporate financial decision. Food industry companies have positive effect on variables in dividend yield and changes income‚ but debt ratio has no meaningful relationship on dividend per share. It has only positive relationship‚ if the rate of debt ratio is less than dividend yield. When rate of debt ratio is more than dividend yield‚ it has negative relationship

Probing the Deep End of the Milky Way with New Oscillating Kepler Giants

The Kepler mission has been a success in both exoplanet search and stellar physics studies. Red giants have actually been quite a highlight in the Kepler scene. The Kepler long and almost continuous four-year observations allowed us to detect oscillations in more than 15,000 red giants targeted by the mission. However by looking at the power spectra of 45,000 stars classified as dwarfs according to the Q1-16 Kepler star properties catalog, we detected red-giant like oscillations in 850 stars. Even though this is a small addition to the known red-giant sample, these misclassified stars represent a goldmine for galactic archeology studies. Indeed they happen to be fainter (down to Kp~16) and more distant (d>10kpc) than the known red giants, opening the possibility to probe unknown regions of our Galaxy. The faintness of these red giants with detected oscillations is very promising for detecting acoustic modes in red giants observed with K2 and TESS. In this talk, I will present this new sample of red giants with their revised stellar parameters derived from asteroseismology. Then I will discuss about the distribution of their masses, distances, and evolutionary states compared to the previously known sample of red giants.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the KASC9-TASC2 meetin