Attempt to Understand the Physical Hydrology of the Chippewa River Watershed.

Prepared in partnership with the Chippewa River Watershed Projectby the Community Assistantship Program (CAP) administered by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Study of Environmental Profile Around Industries in the Lind-Bohanon Neighborhood Area.

Conducted on behalf of Lind-Bohanon Neighborhood Association. Supported by Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Krill’s Disease: A Newer Management Option

Purpose: To report a case of a young female who presented with scotoma in the right eye for few days. Case Report: Krill’s disease or acute retinal pigment epithelitis (ARPE) is a self-limiting retinal disease with no specific treatment. Typical clinical and imaging features helped us to diagnose her with ARPE. Intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP), which gives a rapid anti-inflammatory response, was advised. An SD-OCT scan post-injection showed a reduction in hyperreflectivity and height of lesion at day 3 and near total resolution by day 5. Conclusion: This case suggests rapid resolution of ARPE with the use of IVM

Diversifying crops improves system productivity and resilience for smallholder farmers in rainfed drylands

Diversifying crops improves system productivity and resilience for smallholder farmers in rainfed drylands

Diversified Cropping System: Relay Intercropping of Lentils with Chickpeas [Morocco]

A Diversified Cropping System (DCS) results in a more resilient and productive cropping system. In this case, chickpeas were introduced as a relay intercrop between established lines of lentils. This not only had no negative effect on lentil yields, but also enabled the harvest of an extra crop: chickpeas

Why Conservation Agriculture in rainfed drylands in Morocco

Crop yield in the rainfed Mediterranean environment in Morocco, the hot spot for climate change, is highly affected by rainfall variability, temperature extremes, and declining soil quality. Several research findings reported that Conservation agriculture (CA) has potential to minimize climatic risk, reduce soil erosion, and improve water use efficiency and soil health compared to conventionally tilled (CT) field in such climatic condition

Share repurchases, signaling effect and implications for corporate governance: Evidence from India

It is worth mentioning that a great deal of financial liberalization, privatization and internationalization policies in emerging economies have significantly increased the corporate restructuring activities like mergers, acquisitions, share repurchases, and stock splits, among others. Indeed, the activity that is investigated in this paper is ‘share repurchases’ and its effect on stock returns and price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. More deeply, this paper will answer the research question–does a share repurchase offer abnormal returns around the announcement? Thus, it is performed in one of the Asian emerging markets–India. To do so, we use event-study method to examine abnormal returns and P/E signaling around the announcement of 64 share repurchases, announced during 2008-2009. It is found that stock performance does not adequate, and notices lower as well as negative earnings during post-buyback period. Briefly, we conclude that share repurchases assure short-term returns, and observe lower P/E compared to pre-buyback period. In addition, we show some interesting results that derived from industrial and services sectors. The outcome of this paper would help financial analysts, financial advisors, corporate enterprises and regulatory bodies in designing policies on earnings distribution, managerial incentives, takeovers, and so forth of regulatory aspects

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A 26-nation exploratory study

Many interdisciplinary studies of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis examine the causes of crisis, corporate governance and firm value, stock market efficiency, new firm registration, macroeconomic performance, and compare this crisis to previous crises. However, we do not find conceptual (empirical) studies that study foreign mergers or acquisitions with respect to the financial crisis. In this exploratory study, we perform an investigation using the UNCTAD’s dataset of worldwide cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB-M&As). We select 26 countries and employ the adjusted event-study method to find significant difference between the means of pre-crisis period (2004–2006) and post-crisis period (2008–2010) for both sales and purchases in three variables, namely, number of deals, deal value, and average deal value. Our results show that the 2007–2008 global financial crisis has negatively affected both CB-M&A sale and purchase transactions all over the world from 2008 to 2009. We found, however, that after the crisis period, emerging market countries have taken advantage of the attractive asset prices in developed countries and increased their foreign acquisitions. Lastly, we offer “crisis-related CB-M&A propositions” that would facilitate future hypotheses testing, empirical studies, and policy-making research

Share repurchases, signalling effect and implications for corporate governance: Evidence from India

It is worth mentioning that a great deal of financial liberalization, privatization and internationalization policies in emerging economies have significantly increased the corporate restructuring activities like mergers, acquisitions, share repurchases, and stock splits, among others. Indeed, the activity that is investigated in this paper is ‘share repurchases’ and its effect on stock returns and price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. More deeply, this paper will answer the research question–does a share repurchase offer abnormal returns around the announcement? Thus, it is performed in one of the Asian emerging markets–India. To do so, we use event-study method to examine abnormal returns and P/E signaling around the announcement of 64 share repurchases, announced during 2008-2009. It is found that stock performance does not adequate, and notices lower as well as negative earnings during post-buyback period. Briefly, we conclude that share repurchases assure short-term returns, and observe lower P/E compared to pre-buyback period. In addition, we show some interesting results that derived from industrial and services sectors. The outcome of this paper would help financial analysts, financial advisors, corporate enterprises and regulatory bodies in designing policies on earnings distribution, managerial incentives, takeovers, and so forth of regulatory aspects