Risk Reduction as a Managerial Motive for Conglomerate Mergers
A conglomerate merger generally leads, through the diversification effect, to reduced for the combined entity. As is well known, in perfect capital markets such reduction will...
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The FIRST Survey: Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters
view Abstract Citations (2408) References (28) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS The FIRST Survey: Faint Images of the Radio Sky a...
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
Earth's natural systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly improved as these changes have gathered pace. What is the explanation? As a...
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score
This multiple organ dysfunction score, constructed using simple physiologic measures of dysfunction in six organ systems, mirrors organ dysfunction as the intensivist sees it an...
Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income
A paradigm is presented where both the extent of financial intermediation and the rate of economic growth are endogenously determined.Financial intermediation promotes growth be...
The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing
Energy-proportional designs would enable large energy savings in servers, potentially doubling their efficiency in real-life use. Achieving energy-proportionality will require s...
Characteristics and Outcomes of 21 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 in Washington State
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is an emerging health threat.1 Until February 20...
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
If Thomas Kuhn (1962) is correct, a field of inquiry develops in stages. Some members of a field of inquiry recognize anomalies in the foundational beliefs and seek better expla...