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    • Capital Regulation, Risk-Taking, Bank Lending and Depositor Discipline

    • Capital Regulation, Risk-Taking, Bank Lending and Depositor Discipline

    • Bank Regulations, Depositor Discipline, Risk Taking, Basel Capital Regulations, Credit Crunch

    • In this dissertation we investigate different aspects of capital regulations and their impact on the behavior of commercial banks. In chapter two, we foucs on the impact of capital regulations on risk-taking of commercial banks in developed and...

    • 2007-08-08;
    • Two Essays Relating to Mutual Fund Performance

    • Two Essays Relating to Mutual Fund Performance

    • Exchange-Traded Funds, ETFs, index mutual funds, tracking error, mutual funds, manager characteristics, gender differences, fund performance

    • In two unrelated papers, we examine different aspects of mutual fund performance and other issues. In the first chapter, we look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and how they differ from index funds in performance and tracking error. Using daily...

    • 2007-08-08;
    • Multiple Solutions on a Ball for a Generalized Lane Emden Equation

    • Multiple Solutions on a Ball for a Generalized Lane Emden Equation

    • p-laplacian, critical Sobolev exponents, weighted Sobolev spaces

    • In this work we study the Generalized Lane-Emden equation and the interplay between the exponents involved and their consequences on the existence and non existence of radial solutions on a unit ball in n dimensions. We extend the analysis to the...

    • 2008-12-19;
    • Evaluation of Expressions with Uncertainty in Databases

    • Evaluation of Expressions with Uncertainty in Databases
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    • Expressions are used in a range of applications like Publish/Subscribe, Ecommerce, etc. Integrating support for expressions in a database management system (DBMS) provides an efficient and scalable platform for applications that use Expressions....

    • 2007-05-18;
    • Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts

    • Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts

    • Real Estate Investment Trusts, REITs, Mutual Funds, Downside Risk, Liquidity

    • The first essay of this dissertation investigates the relationship between downside risk and returns of real estate investment trusts (REITs) and assesses the performance of real estate mutual funds (REMFs). We measure the asymmetric risk through...

    • 2007-08-08;
    • Commonality of Liquidity around the World: Evaluation of Possible Reasons

    • Commonality of Liquidity around the World: Evaluation of Possible Reasons

    • Liquidity, Commonality, Measuring change in liquidity, measures of daily liquidity

    • We identify some of the factors affecting the extent of commonality in liquidity and differences between different stock exchanges around the world. With a comprehensive approach, our investigation centers on presenting evidence on the existence of...

    • 2008-05-16;
    • Family Ownership and its impact on diversified Indian Business Group Ownership

    • Family Ownership and its impact on diversified Indian Business Group Ownership

    • Family ownership, diversification, Indian Business Group, IT, outsourcing

    • By using the data on Indian firms on the BSE 500 Index during the period 2005-2006, we find that family ownership affects group affiliated firms more positively than standalone firms. Group affiliated firms underperform initially as compared to...

    • 2008-08-07;
    • Bloom Filters for Filesystem Forensics

    • Bloom Filters for Filesystem Forensics

    • Computer crimes investigation; Forensic sciences

    • Digital forensics investigations become more time consuming as the amount of data to be investigated grows. Secular growth trends between hard drive and memory capacity just exacerbate the problem. Bloom filters are space-efficient, probabilistic...

    • 2006-12-15
    • Byzantine Music Intervals: An Experimental Signal Processing Approach

    • Byzantine Music Intervals: An Experimental Signal Processing Approach

    • Note Frequency; FFT; Spectrogram; Byzantine Music; Signal Processing

    • We used a Byzantine Music piece performed by a well recognized chanter in order to derive experimentally the mean frequencies of the first five tones (D – A) of the diatonic scale of Byzantine Music. Then we compared the experimentally derived...

    • 2004-08-05;
    • Best Linear Unbiased Estimation Fusion with Constraints

    • Best Linear Unbiased Estimation Fusion with Constraints

    • Estimation fusion; BLUE; data compression; OOSM; clutter

    • Estimation fusion, or data fusion for estimation, is the problem of how to best utilize useful information contained in multiple data sets for the purpose of estimating an unknown quantity — a parameter or a process. Estimation fusion with...

    • 2003-12-19;
    • Advanced Techniques for Improving the Efficacy of Digital Forensics Investigations

    • Advanced Techniques for Improving the Efficacy of Digital Forensics Investigations

    • Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, Digital Investigation, File Carving, Live Forensics, RAM Forensics, Forensic Discovery, Forensic Discovery Auditing

    • Digital forensics is the science concerned with discovering, preserving, and analyzing evidence on digital devices. The intent is to be able to determine what events have taken place, when they occurred, who performed them, and how they were...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Synthesis and Investigation of Nanomaterials by Homogeneous Nonaqueous Solution Phase Reactions

    • Synthesis and Investigation of Nanomaterials by Homogeneous Nonaqueous Solution Phase Reactions

    • Nanomaterials; Synthesis; Reductive chemical methods; Core-shell structure; Homogeneous nonaqueous solution phase reaction; Metal; Bimetal

    • The objective of this Ph.D. study is to explore an important and fertile research topic on the methods for synthesis of nanomaterials by homogeneous nonaqueous solution phase reaction. Research in this work focuses on synthesizing several kinds of...

    • 2005-08-10;
    • Fluctuations, Phase Separation and Wetting Films near Liquid-Gas Critical Point

    • Fluctuations, Phase Separation and Wetting Films near Liquid-Gas Critical Point

    • Critical fluctuations; Microgravity; Critical temperature estimation; Histogram method; Power spectrum; Triple contact line; Pure fluids; Liquid mixtures; Image processing

    • Gravity on Earth limits the study of the properties of pure fluids near critical point because they become stratified under their own weight. Near the critical point, all thermodynamic properties either diverge or converge and the heating and...

    • 2006-05-22;
    • Bank Efficiency Dynamics and Market Reaction around Merger Announcement

    • Bank Efficiency Dynamics and Market Reaction around Merger Announcement

    • Malmquist index; Bank Industry Consolidation

    • We study, using the non-parametric data envelopment approach, we investigated the long-run profit efficiency dynamics and the short-run market reaction of nine pre-classified merger deals of merging and non-merging U.S. banks over the time period...

    • 2006-05-22;

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