Auto-augmentation: ought it to be done? (2007)
Lawther, Suzanne, Marshall, David, Bailie, Alan, Brown, Stephen
No abstract available.
Going Negative: What to Do with Negative Book Equity Stocks (2007)
Brown, Stephen, Lajbcygier, Paul, Li, Bob
A firm’s book equity is a measure of the value held by a firm’s ordinary shareholders. Increasingly, it is being reported as a negative number. Since the firm’s limited liability structure...
Going Negative: What to Do with Negative Book Equity Stocks (2007)
Brown, Stephen, Lajbcygier, Paul, Li, Bob
A firm’s book equity is a measure of the value held by a firm’s ordinary shareholders. Increasingly, it is being reported as a negative number. Since the firm’s limited liability structure...
Mandatory Disclosure and Operational Risk: Evidence from Hedge Fund Registration (2007)
Brown, Stephen, Goetzmann, William, Liang, Bing, Schwarz, Christopher
Mandatory disclosure is a regulatory tool intended to allow market participants to assess operational risk. We examine the value of disclosure through the controversial SEC requirement, since...
Mandatory Disclosure and Operational Risk: Evidence from Hedge Fund Registration (2007)
Brown, Stephen, Goetzmann, William, Liang, Bing, Schwarz, Christopher
Mandatory disclosure is a regulatory tool intended to allow market participants to assess operational risk. We examine the value of disclosure through the controversial SEC requirement, since...
50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida (2006)
No abstract available.
Cómo conseguir una gran marca (2006)
Traducción de: Harry Potter's Brand Magic Wizard
49thAnnual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida (2005)
No abstract available.
Jasinski, Jacek, Liliental-Weber, Zuzanna, Maruska, Herbert-Paul, Chai, Bruce H., Hill, David W., Chou, Mitch M.C., ...
(101_0) GaN wafers grown on (100) face of y-LiAlO2 were studied using transmission electronmicroscopy. Despite good lattice matching in this heteroepitaxial system, high densities of planar...
Disclosure Quality and Information Asymmetry (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A.
We examine the association between firms' disclosure quality and information asymmetry using a three-stage least squares estimation procedure that takes into account the endogeneity between these two...
Management Forecasts and Litigation Risk (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A., Lo, Kin
We examine the influence of the ex ante risk of class action securities litigation on firms' decisions to issue management earnings forecasts as well as the characteristics of those forecasts. We...
Disclosure Quality and Information Asymmetry (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A.
We examine the association between firms' disclosure quality and information asymmetry using a three-stage least squares estimation procedure that takes into account the endogeneity between these two...
Management Forecasts and Litigation Risk (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A., Lo, Kin
We examine the influence of the ex ante risk of class action securities litigation on firms' decisions to issue management earnings forecasts as well as the characteristics of those forecasts. We...
ENSC 203: Explorations in Environmental Studies (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Goebel, Allison
ENSC 203* EXPLORATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. Course Outlines, Notes, Handouts
ENSC 371: Environmental Analysis Methods (2005)
Brown, Stephen, Rutter, Allison
ENSC 371* ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS METHODS. Course Outlines, Notes, Handouts
REALLY NATURALIZING VIRTUE (2005)
A plausible naturalistic virtue ethics requires a plausible naturalistic account of virtue. One way of naturalizing virtue is to give an account of the virtues as those traits that enable realization...
Developing and Understanding Mantra: A Movement from Veda to Tantra (2004)
Advised by Professor D.R. Brooks, Ph.D. Department of Religion
The Impact of Pension Assumptions on Firm Value (2004)
I examine the association between disclosed financial accounting data and firm value, while incorporating the effect of managerial discretion in reporting those data. I focus on the assumptions used...
The Impact of Pension Assumptions on Firm Value (2004)
I examine the association between disclosed financial accounting data and firm value, while incorporating the effect of managerial discretion in reporting those data. I focus on the assumptions used...
Conference Calls and Information Asymmetry (2003)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A., Lo, Kin
We hypothesize that conference calls are voluntary disclosures that lead to long-term reductions in information asymmetry among equity investors. Cross-sectional and time-series tests show that the...
Luce: The artist engage (Maximilien Luce, France) (2003)
Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) was an early member of the Société des artistes indépendants and, in his later years, its president. Luce's artistic reputation has been based on the painted...
Conference Calls and Information Asymmetry (2003)
Brown, Stephen, Hillegeist, Stephen A., Lo, Kin
We hypothesize that conference calls are voluntary disclosures that lead to long-term reductions in information asymmetry among equity investors. Cross-sectional and time-series tests show that the...
Interstitial Optical Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer (2003)
Aim: development of optical techniques for diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer Breast tissue can be examined rapidly using Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (spectral analysis of white light...
A case study of attempted radical organizational change of Children's Services / (2003)
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Sociology, University of Alberta.
Architecture of FPGAs and CPLDs: A Tutorial (2002)
This paper provides a tutorial survey of architectures of commercially available high-capacity field-programmable devices (FPDs). We first define the relevant terminology in the field and then...
Architecture of FPGAs and CPLDs: A Tutorial (2001)
This paper provides a tutorial survey of architectures of commercially available high-capacity field-programmable devices (FPDs). We first define the relevant terminology in the field and then...
Crash Discovery in Stock and Option Markets (2001)
Gurdip Bakshi, Dilip Madan, Pierluigi Balduzzi, David Bates, Phelim Boyle, Stephen Brown, ...
This article investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the economics of stock market crashes. Using more than 100 years of daily data on the DJIA (and shorter series on NASDAQ, IBM, and...
A Model For Invisible Recovery Applied To Communications (2001)
George G. Mitchell, Stephen Brown
In this paper we present the advances we have made in our network fault tolerant computing project [1]. We examine the problems of failures within network communications and telecom systems and...
The impact of pension assumptions on firm valuation. (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D., Accounting Information and Management)--Northwestern University, 2001.
The impact of pension assumptions on firm valuation [electronic resource]. (2001)
This study examines the association between disclosed accounting numbers and firm market value while incorporating the effect of managerial discretion on these numbers. In particular, the study...
Brown, Stephen, Finn, Mark W., Hope, Ole-Kristian
Until 1998, UK accounting standards allowed firms to write off goodwill directly against shareholders' equity, bypassing the income statement altogether. Many critics contended that this accounting...
Brown, Stephen, Finn, Mark W., Hope, Ole-Kristian
Until 1998, UK accounting standards allowed firms to write off goodwill directly against shareholders' equity, bypassing the income statement altogether. Many critics contended that this accounting...
An Approach For Network Communications Systems Recovery (2000)
George G. Mitchell, Stephen Brown
In this paper we examine the problem of failures within network communications and telecom systems and outline a localised Invisible Recovery solution to such systems. We introduce a new approach...
Improving FPGA Routing Architectures Using Architecture and CAD Interactions (2000)
Benjamin Tseng, Jonathan Rose, Stephen Brown
This paper examines the interactions between the CAD tools that are used to configure an FPGA's routing resources and the design of the routing architecture itself. Such an understanding is used to...
University Microfilms order no. 9985235.
Brown, Stephen, Lo, Kin, Lys, Thomas
This study examines the properties of the R-squared metric frequently used in accounting research as a measure of value relevance. Analytical results show that the metric is unreliable in the...
Brown, Stephen, Lo, Kin, Lys, Thomas
This study examines the properties of the R-squared metric frequently used in accounting research as a measure of value relevance. Analytical results show that the metric is unreliable in the...
Designing for High Speed-Performance in CPLDs and FPGAs (1999)
Zeljko Zilic, Guy Lemieux, Kelvin Loveless, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic
We review some of the techniques for designing with FPGAs and CPLDs used in our design of a large-scale multiprocessor. Several issues concerning high-speed design are addressed: selecting the...
What is the ProbabilityofaStock Market Crash? (1999)
Gurdip Bakshi, Dilip Madan, David Bates, Phelim Boyle, Stephen Brown, Charles Cao, ...
This article addresses the provocative question: What is the probability that the stock market will crash? Using more than 100 years of daily data on the DJIA (and shorter series on NASDAQ, IBM, and...
NMR with Combined Antiangiogenic and Radiation Therapies - Breast Cancer (1998)
The original goal of the present study was to determine optimal strategies for combining radiation and antiangiogenic therapies in spontaneous murine tumors and to evaluate the potential of Nuclear...
Interstitial Optical Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer (1998)
Spectral analysis of white light reflected from tissue provides a rapid, non-invasive, diagnostic technique. We have collected paired optical and conventional histologic measurements from 647 sites...
Of Smiles and Smirks: A Term-Structure Perspective (1998)
Sanjiv Ranjan Das, Rangarajan K. Sundaram, Menachem Brenner, Stephen Brown, George Chacko, Young Ho Eom, ...
An extensive empirical literature in finance has documented not only the presence of anamolies in the Black-Scholes model, but also the "term-structures" of these anamolies (for instance, the...
Efficient Implementation of Array Multipliers in FPGAs (1998)
Alireza Kaviani, Stephen Brown
This paper proposes an efficient realization of arithmetic circuits in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Commercial FPGAs often contain special-purpose circuitry in their logic blocks that is...
Designing multimedia applications for educational use /--by Stephen Brown. (1998)
Final year project -- University of Leeds (School of Computer Studies), 1997/98.
Evaluating Parsing Schemes with Entropy Indicators (1997)
Lyon, Caroline, Brown, Stephen
This paper introduces an objective metric for evaluating a parsing scheme. It is based on Shannon's original work with letter sequences, which can be extended to part-of-speech tag sequences. It is...
Architecture of FPGAs and CPLDs: A Tutorial (1997)
This paper provides a tutorial survey of architectures of commercially available high-capacity field-programmable devices (FPDs). We first define the relevant terminology in the field and then...
39TH Military Librarians Workshop. Information Warfare: Librarians on the Frontline. (1997)
McConnell, Elaine, Brown, Stephen
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Military Librarians Workshop was held in Kansas City Missouri and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, October 9-12 1995. The conference entitled 'Information Warfare: Librarians on the...
Surface modification of a model hydrophobic drug crystal by surfactant adsorption. (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sunderland, 1996.
Segmented Routing for Speed-Performance and Routability in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (1995)
Stephen Brown, Muhammad Khellah, Guy Lemieux
This paper addresses several issues involved for routing in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) that have both horizontal and vertical routing channels, with wire segments of various lengths....
Designing for High Speed-Performance in CPLDs and FPGAs (1995)
Zeljko Zilic, Guy Lemieux, Kelvin Loveless, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic
We review some of the techniques for designing with FPGAs and CPLDs used in our design of a large-scale multiprocessor. Several issues concerning high-speed design are addressed: selecting the...
Designing for High Speed-Performance in CPLDs and FPGAs (1995)
Zeljko Zilic, Guy Lemieux, Kelvin Loveless, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic
We review some of the techniques for designing with FPGAs and CPLDs used in our design of a large-scale multiprocessor. Several issues concerning high-speed design are addressed: selecting the...
Extraordinary items and income smoothing: a positive accounting approach (1994)
Beattie, Vivien, Brown, Stephen, Ewers, David, John, Brian, Manson, Stuart, Thomas, Dylan, ...
This is an empirical study of single-period income smoothing which uses an incentives-based model to explain classificatory choices. An index is constructed to measure the smoothing effect of these...
The role of work study in TQM (1994)
Links the role of work study to TQM and argues that work study methods can play an integral part in TQM. Argues that many TQM programmes fail because they do not have measurement techniques in place...
The First Cavalry Army in the Russian civil war, 1918-1920 (1990)
Typescript. Bibliography: leaf 361-369.
Soft contact lens solution business opportunity (1987)
Typescript (photocopy) Bibliography: leaves 94-95.
Koinonia in the workplace :--a model for ministry on a commuter campus /--Stephen Brown. (1986)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Methodist Theological School in Ohio.
Comparative ecology of the Piping Plover and the Spotted Sandpiper. (1985)
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/53718/1/2153.pdf
Retail location and retail change in Belfast city centre. (1984)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--The Queen's University of Belfast, 1984.
Dissertation (Dip.L.A.)--University of Canterbury, 1981.
Biancotto, Angélique, Grivel, Jean-Charles, Gondois-Rey, Françoise, Bettendroffer, Lise, Vigne, Robert, Brown, Stephen, ...
To design strategies to purge latent reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), we investigated mechanisms by which a non-tumor-promoting phorbol ester, prostratin, inhibits infection...
Toth, Marta, Osenkowski, Pamela, Hesek, Dusan, Brown, Stephen, Meroueh, Samy, Sakr, Wael, ...
MT1-MMP (membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase) is a membrane-anchored MMP that can be shed to the extracellular milieu. In the present study we report the primary structure and activity of the...
Effects of Prostratin on T-Cell Activation and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Latency
Korin, Yael D., Brooks, David G., Brown, Stephen, Korotzer, Andrew, Zack, Jerome A.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication is linked to cellular gene transcription and requires target cell activation. The latent reservoir of HIV-1 in quiescent T cells is thought to be a...
Effects of Prostratin on T-Cell Activation and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Latency
Korin, Yael D., Brooks, David G., Brown, Stephen, Korotzer, Andrew, Zack, Jerome A.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication is linked to cellular gene transcription and requires target cell activation. The latent reservoir of HIV-1 in quiescent T cells is thought to be a...
Biancotto, Angélique, Grivel, Jean-Charles, Gondois-Rey, Françoise, Bettendroffer, Lise, Vigne, Robert, Brown, Stephen, ...
To design strategies to purge latent reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), we investigated mechanisms by which a non-tumor-promoting phorbol ester, prostratin, inhibits infection...
Toth, Marta, Osenkowski, Pamela, Hesek, Dusan, Brown, Stephen, Meroueh, Samy, Sakr, Wael, ...
MT1-MMP (membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase) is a membrane-anchored MMP that can be shed to the extracellular milieu. In the present study we report the primary structure and activity of the...
Acquisition-Related Provision-Taking and Post-Acquisition Performance in the UK Prior to "FRS 7"
Stephen Brown, Mark Finn, Ole-Kristian Hope
This paper examines the association between acquisiton-related provision-taking behaviour and post-acquisition performance for a sample of UK firms that undertook large acquisitions between 1989 and...
Southwest economy shows strength after second-quarter slowdown
Federal Reserve District, 11th
Relationships between community characteristics and municipal smoke-free bylaw status and strength
Nykiforuk, Candace, Campbell, Sharon, Cameron, Roy, Brown, Stephen, Eyles, John
Conditions for Survival: Changing Risk and the Performance of Hedge Fund Managers and CTAs
Investors in hedge funds and commodity trading advisors [CTA] are naturally concerned with risk as well as return. In this paper, we investigate whether hedge fund and CTA return variance depends...
The return to value in Asian stock markets
Brown, Stephen, Ghon Rhee, S., Zhang, Liang
This paper investigates the returns to value strategies in four Asian stock markets: Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore exhibit value premia while Taiwan shows...
The returns to value and momentum in Asian Markets
Brown, Stephen, Yan Du, Daphne, Rhee, S. Ghon, Zhang, Liang
Two unique experiments are conducted. First, we evaluate returns to the best value and momentum strategies combined by: (i) a long portfolio of stocks classified as both value stocks and winner...
Mandatory Disclosure and Operational Risk: Evidence from Hedge Fund Registration
STEPHEN BROWN, WILLIAM GOETZMANN, BING LIANG, CHRISTOPHER SCHWARZ
Mandatory disclosure is a regulatory tool intended to allow market participants to assess operational risk. We examine the value of disclosure through the controversial SEC requirement, since...
The Center Cannot Hold: Consuming the Utopian Marketplace
Pauline Maclaran, Stephen Brown
This article draws upon the utopian studies literature to integrate two strands of contemporary consumer research, the study of place and space and the analysis of consumer/marketer relations. Based...