Legal Determinants of External Finance
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 49 countries, we show that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcemen...
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UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation
The standard bootstrap (SBS), despite being computationally intensive, is widely used in maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses. We recently proposed the ultrafast bootstrap a...
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Comm...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometri...
Agency costs of free cash flow, corporate finance, and takeovers
Corporate managers are the agents of shareholders; a relationship fraught with conflicting interests. Agency theory, the analysis of such conflicts, is now a major part of the e...
Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals
Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2021, Tutor: Josep Taron Roca
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text\n Transformer
Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task\nbefore being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful\ntechnique in natural language...
Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer
Wave-particle duality is an inherent peculiarity of the quantum world. The double-slit experiment has been frequently used for understanding different aspects of this fundamenta...
Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer
Familiarization of students with the physical fundamentals of heat and mass transfer processes and modern practical problems solved within the framework of this theory, the form...