CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND INCOME INEQUALITY

Using the new issuance of equity and corporate bond data series, thisresearch finds that recent surge in top incomes shares have negative e¤ecton the capital structure choice of North American rms. This paper alsouses information from firm specic and macroeconomic variables to explainthe dynamics of capital structure choice of OECD firms. The result ofthis empirical study provides some of the insights from modern capitalstructure theory. But these traditional determinants might not have therobust explanatory power in explaining the capital structure choice of afirm

Generalized Fluctuation Theorem

Over the last couple of decades, stochastic thermodynamics has emerged as a powerful framework to describe thermodynamic processes for systems driven arbitrarily far-from-equilibrium. As fluctuation theorem (FT) is one of its major results, it is important to have an accurate expression for FT. In this letter I have derived a generalized fluctuation theorem using measure theory, specifically Girsanov's theorem applied to the forward and time reversed Langevin dynamics, which recovers the popular form of FT as an approximation. Furthermore through Monte Carlo simulation of the Langevin dynamics of a colloidal particle, I have shown that the proposed FT is accurate and the usual FT diverges from one with time. Such a finding is expected to have significant consequences in our understanding of nonequilibrium systems and necessitate revisiting many of the results connected to FT

Omega Chronicles: Mapping the Landscape of Violence in Japanese Manga

Influenced by the traditional Edo culture where homosexuality was prevalent, Japanese manga artists do not shy away from portraying different gender relationships explicitly through art. Among the contemporary homosexual genres of Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen-ai, and Shoujo-ai found in Japanese manga, the concept of Omegaverse, a subgenre of erotic slash fiction, has been gaining popularity. The term “omegaverse” is a combination of the words “omega” and “universe”. The omegaverse is an alternate universe where, apart from the primary gender of male and female, three other secondary genders of alpha (α), beta (β), and omega (Ω), also exists. This results in six genders in total, with each primary gender further classified into three secondary genders. The societal structure is usually based on the “wolf’s hierarchy” where alphas possess the features of alpha wolves and are considered superior. On the other hand, omegas are considered inferior and possess the ability to reproduce, irrespective of being male or female. Though there are also heterosexual and lesbian omegaverses, the term is most widely used for boys’ love genres like Yaoi and Shounen-ai, and is often referred to as a world where men can get pregnant, creating a new subgenre called Mpreg. This article focuses on understanding the dehumanizing factors of omegaverse, which strip humans of the most basic value of reason (which differentiates them from animals), using three manga, namely Kiraide Isasete, The Alpha’s Bride and Remnant Kemonohito, which cater to omegaverse boys’ love.&nbsp

Internal noise driven generalized Langevin equation from a nonlocal continuum model

Starting with a micropolar formulation, known to account for nonlocal microstructural effects at the continuum level, a generalized Langevin equation (GLE) for a particle, describing the predominant motion of a localized region through a single displacement degree-of-freedom (DOF), is derived. The GLE features a memory dependent multiplicative or internal noise, which appears upon recognising that the micro-rotation variables possess randomness owing to an uncertainty principle. Unlike its classical version, the new GLE qualitatively reproduces the experimentally measured fluctuations in the steady-state mean square displacement of scattering centers in a polyvinyl alcohol slab. The origin of the fluctuations is traced to nonlocal spatial interactions within the continuum. A constraint equation, similar to a fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT), is shown to statistically relate the internal noise to the other parameters in the GLE

SoccerKDNet: A Knowledge Distillation Framework for Action Recognition in Soccer Videos

Classifying player actions from soccer videos is a challenging problem, which has become increasingly important in sports analytics over the years. Most state-of-the-art methods employ highly complex offline networks, which makes it difficult to deploy such models in resource constrained scenarios. Here, in this paper we propose a novel end-to-end knowledge distillation based transfer learning network pre-trained on the Kinetics400 dataset and then perform extensive analysis on the learned framework by introducing a unique loss parameterization. We also introduce a new dataset named SoccerDB1 containing 448 videos and consisting of 4 diverse classes each of players playing soccer. Furthermore, we introduce an unique loss parameter that help us linearly weigh the extent to which the predictions of each network are utilized. Finally, we also perform a thorough performance study using various changed hyperparameters. We also benchmark the first classification results on the new SoccerDB1 dataset obtaining 67.20% validation accuracy. Apart from outperforming prior arts significantly, our model also generalizes to new datasets easily. The dataset has been made publicly available at: https://bit.ly/soccerdb1Comment: Accepted to 10th Springer PReMI 202

Crystal Structure and Solid-State Properties of Metal Complexes of the Schiff Base Ligands Derived from Diacetylmonoxime: A Brief Review

The fabulous advancement of a large section of modern coordination chemistry depends upon different kinds of strategically designed and functionally tuned ligand systems; Schiff base ligands play a pivotal role among them. Such Schiff bases become more motivating when they are designed to be synthesized using very simple organic molecules. This paper reviews our work on a family of three functionally different types of Schiff base ligands, derived from diacetylmonoxime, which have been employed to synthesize mononuclear metal complexes with various binding modes of ligands and topologies around the metal centers. Such Schiff base ligands have been synthesized by reacting diacetylmonoxime with diethylenetriamine, 1,3-diaminopropane-2-ol, and morpholine N-thiohydrazide. The synthesized Schiff bases and the metal complexes of such “privileged ligands” show many interesting supramolecular coordination architectures involving different weak forces, e.g., H-bonding, C–H···π interactions, etc