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What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data
ABSTRACT We investigate the determinants of capital structure choice by analyzing the financing decisions of public firms in the major industrialized countries. At an aggregate ...
Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific li...
A General Theory of Crime
Preface Part I. Crime: 1. Classical theory and the idea of crime 2. The nature of crime Part II. Criminality: 3. Biological positivism 4. Psychological, economic, and sociologic...
The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>
Abstract The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomi...
The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A review
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 4.3 million confirmed cases and over 290,000 deaths globally. It has also sparked fears of an impending economic crisis and recession....
First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States
An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, with cases now confirmed in multiple countries. We report the first case of 2019-nCo...
The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods
At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, this book teaches students the principles of research and to construct and test t...
Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
Overview - depression, golden girl, anxiety and unpredictability, childhood failure, sudden psychosomatic death controllability - voluntary responding, response independence and...