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Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the effect that the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) 158 has on credit ratings for firms with defined benefit pension plans. The results show that, relative to other firms, firms that sponsor defined benefit pension plans have higher corporate credit ratings and that those scores decrease after the implementation of SFAS158. In addition, the more funded a defined benefit pension p...

Abstract: This research uses an event study to examine the impact on firm value of U.S. financial institutions as a result of receiving an enforcement action for violations of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction regulations. There are 989 enforcement actions that are hand-collected in the period from January 2000 to November 2018. The final sample includes 8, 948 firm-quarte...

Abstract: U.S. National Health Expenditures reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, accounting for 17.9% of the Gross Domestic Product and is expected to reach 19.4 percent within the next 10 years. In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs funded over 37% of all National Healthcare Expenditures, which is more than every private insurance company combined (CMS.gov, 2017b). Additionally, over 77% of hospitals provide services...

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the effect that the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) 158 has on credit ratings for firms with defined benefit pension plans. The results show that, relative to other firms, firms that sponsor defined benefit pension plans have higher corporate credit ratings and that those scores decrease after the implementation of SFAS158. In addition, the more funded a defined benefit pension p...

Abstract: This study investigates the valuation effect of capital structure, earnings quality, and operating efficiency on a hotel's firm. Dissertation Discovery Company and Jacksonville University are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Empirical Examination of the Valuation Effect of Capital Structure, Earnings Quality, and Operating Efficiency on Firms in the Ho...

Abstract: U.S. National Health Expenditures reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, accounting for 17.9% of the Gross Domestic Product and is expected to reach 19.4 percent within the next 10 years. In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs funded over 37% of all National Healthcare Expenditures, which is more than every private insurance company combined (CMS.gov, 2017b). Additionally, over 77% of hospitals provide services...

Abstract: This study investigates the valuation effect of capital structure, earnings quality, and operating efficiency on a hotel's firm. Dissertation Discovery Company and Jacksonville University are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Empirical Examination of the Valuation Effect of Capital Structure, Earnings Quality, and Operating Efficiency on Firms in the Ho...

Abstract: This research uses an event study to examine the impact on firm value of U.S. financial institutions as a result of receiving an enforcement action for violations of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanction regulations. There are 989 enforcement actions that are hand-collected in the period from January 2000 to November 2018. The final sample includes 8, 948 firm-quarte...

Abstract:A study investigaing whether there is a correlation between racial preference for a doll and race and sex of the child and/or examiner.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Racial Identification and Preference in Young Children as a Function of Race and Sex of the Experimenter and Child." by Katrine...

Abstract:A study investigaing whether there is a correlation between racial preference for a doll and race and sex of the child and/or examiner.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Racial Identification and Preference in Young Children as a Function of Race and Sex of the Experimenter and Child." by Katrine...

Abstract:Discussion of a theory of nominals in English Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Nominals as Complements." by Donald Herbert Albury, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university'...

Abstract:A study of the sonnets of E. E. CummingsDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "E. E. Cummings : the Meaning of the Sonnets" by David Goddard Mead, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the u...

Abstract:A study of the sonnets of E. E. CummingsDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "E. E. Cummings : the Meaning of the Sonnets" by David Goddard Mead, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the u...

Abstract:The mechanism proposed for the isolation of two sibling species of damselflies, Enallagma pollutum and Enallagma signatum, is a tactile isolation based on the shape of the male anal appendages that are used to hold the female during tandem formation.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Reproductive...

Abstract:DissertationDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Deptford Phase:" by Jerald T. Milanich, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, the IR@UF. The...

Abstract:DissertationDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Deptford Phase:" by Jerald T. Milanich, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, the IR@UF. The...

Abstract:Concern for the effectiveness of the educational system is manifest in the recent push for accountability. It follows that a properly conceived system of accountability must include systematic evaluation of every aspect of the service delivery system from student entrance into as well as student exit from the system. This study was conducted to investigate and describe current special education declassification practices and the exten...

Abstract:Thesis composed of two parts: (i) experiments on nonlinear water wave transmission and reflection at narrow openings such as harbour mouths and inlets, (ii) flow and sediment transport, erosion and deposition at tidal inlets, flushing of connected bay and lagoon systems. Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This disse...

Abstract:The purpose of this study was to understand the control of synthesis of Tdt at a molecular level, using a murine pre B-cell line inducible for the enzyme. FLEl-4, an Abelson virus transformed fetal liver cell line, when treated with dibutyryl cAMP and caffeine (or other phosphodiesterase inhibitors), shows a three- to tenfold induction of Tdt, as measured by immunoprecipitation of pulse labelled enzyme, activity assays, and steady-sta...

Abstract:The widow is a recurrent character type in the novels of Anthony Trollope. Widows are major characters in many of the forty-seven novels. Ordinarily Trollope tends to repeat and to endorse the conventionally-approved patterns of behavior that governed the values of women who expected to marry or who were already married. He approves or disapproves of maidens and wives in his fiction according to their belief in or adherence to the sta...