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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"seasoned"”.
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Performance trends of seasoned Two Oceans Ultramarathon runners
… been explored. The performance trends of such seasoned runners have been of interest to identify trends that could influence participation and running career longevity. Aim To identify performance trends of seasoned ultramarathon runners across their Two Oceans Ultramarathon running careers. …
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An Examination of Seasoned Equity Offer Placement Effort
… Hansen (2000) show that underwriter spreads in seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) overwhelmingly reflect variable costs. This research attempts to begin filling the gap created by this result, as to what are the important constituents of the variable costs. In particular, I investigate the …
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The motives, timing and subsequent performance of seasoned equity issues
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Female Seasoned Marriage and Family Therapists: Maintaining Passion for Their Work
… has been published regarding the experiences of seasoned MFTs who not only manage to survive the demands and pressures in the mental health field, but also thrive and find enjoyment in their work. This qualitative study, guided by a phenomenological perspective, provides a rich understanding of …
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Political connections and corporate activities : seasoned equity offerings, share repurchases, and M&A
… activities selected to be examined are i) seasoned equity offerings, ii) share repurchases, and iii) mergers and acquisitions. First, the results of the study show the impact of political connection on seasoned equity offerings. Using seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from 2005 to 2017 in …
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Seasoned debt and equity issues for investment and the information content of insider trades
… in explaining announcement price effects of seasoned debt and equity issues for investment. As has been widely discussed in the finance literature, the announcement of new financing for investment purposes can convey good or bad news depending on the motivation behind the issue, the …
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Timing of initial public offerings, seasoned equity offerings and takeover bids financed with equity: UK evidence
… is to see whether the Initial Public Offerings, Seasoned equity offerings and Takeover activity financed with equity move together. Our second motivation is to see whether certain individual factors affect the timing of the three corporate activities. We focus our research effort on whether …
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Sensory evaluation of reduced sodium potato chips and puffed rice
… and puffed rice (20% and 57% reduction) seasoned with and without MSG and I+G combinations across three conditions: blind tasting, ingredient information, and ingredient information with educational phrase of the need for sodium reduction and the safety of flavor enhancers. Across all …
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Influence of seasoning and preparation of vegetables on consumer choice, consumption, and liking
… we conducted a 3-week cafeteria study where seasoned and unseasoned vegetables were offered at no cost with the purchase of an entrée. A survey that assessed attitudes towards the vegetable that was selected was administered to café customers, and vegetable waste was collected in aggregate. …
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Emotional Labor and Nursing Students: An Investigation of Nursing Students' Emotion Work
… one of which held a registered nurse license (seasoned group; N = 54), and the other which had no previous clinical training in nursing (unseasoned group; N = 53). First, it was hypothesized that frequency of faking emotions and suppressingemotions would predict stress and satisfaction levels …
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Two Essays on Shelf-registered Corporate Equity Offerings
… discounting of traditional and shelf-registered seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). The results indicate that relative to traditional SEOs, shelf discounting during 1982 - June 2004 is similar in magnitude, is influenced by the same factors, and has increased similarly over time. Prior studies …
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An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Information Asymmetry and Earnings Management
… are considered: earnings management around seasoned equity offerings and earnings management using R&D expenditures. Tests reveal a similar systematic relationship between information asymmetry and earnings management in these additional settings.
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Quantitative Market Risk Disclosure, Bond Default Risk and the Cost of Debt: Why Value at Risk
The empirical analyses on both new and seasoned debt issues show that the reduction in bond default risk and cost of debt is observed more frequently with the value at risk format than with sensitivity analysis. Firm size might be a confounding factor, however, because larger firms choose to …
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When Clients Don't Come Back: How Novice Psychotherapists Experience Premature Termination of Therapy
… et al. (2011) explored the experiences of seasoned psychologists after clients terminated therapy prematurely, but to date, no in-depth qualitative study has been conducted to learn about how novice therapists experience premature termination of therapy. Client dropout rates and feelings of …
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Compositional elements in the music of Ken Schaphorst: A detailed analysis of four works for jazz ensemble
… informative and useful for both the aspiring and seasoned composer and arranger.
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Essays in Earnings Management
… The second essay examines the effect of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) on the debt covenant hypothesis. It finds that the use of RAM to avoid the possibility of interest coverage covenant violations decreases from the pre-issue period to the post-issue period. The results also show that …
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Issues in interactive interface design and evaluation
… groups. The discussions are intended for new or seasoned interface designers looking for a comprehensive collection of best practices, procedures, suggestions, observations and experiences to help conceive, design, develop, approve, test and evaluate interfaces for single or series-based …
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Character Strengths of Entrepreneurs
Do seasoned successful entrepreneurs exhibit a blend of unique signature character strengths and persistence compared to the general population? If so, does it matter? In this brief preliminary study, roughly 200 adults (seasoned successful entrepreneurs and expert advisors answering for successful …
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Two essays in finance
… model which shows that insider trading around seasoned equity offerings (SEO) depends on both the quality of issuing firms and insiders' exogenous consumption shocks, neither of which are known by outside investors in the model. The empirical evidence indicates that insider trading is not …
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Staying the course: the life stories of eight entrepreneurial women
… for this study was my own curiosity about how seasoned entrepreneurial women were able to stay the course. As someone who has experienced the world of the employee and that of the entrepreneur, my goal was to better understand how, within their varied personal contexts, the lifelong learning …
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