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Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We find that firms with more independent directors adjust CEO inside debt towards an optimum more quickly. This effect is more pronounced in financially unconstrained, growth, and under‐levered firms, and also firms led by more powerful or overconfident CEOs.
Bonnie Buchanan, Shuhui Wang, Tina Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Cicero under censorship: again on the erotic epigram to Tiro (Plin. «Epist.» VII 4)

open access: yesGriseldaonline
The article discusses an alleged homoerotic epigram by Cicero, dedicated to his freedman Tiro and mentioned in a letter by Pliny the Younger. Most critics have censured this writing, considering it a forgery made in the 1st century ad to discredit Cicero
Tommaso Ricchieri
doaj   +1 more source

Reassessing the Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory: Cicero, Eloquence, and the Best Form of Life

open access: yesRedescriptions, 2015
This paper provides a critical assessment of what Bryan Garsten has called the ‘rhetoric revival’ in political theory and advances an interpretation of an underappreciated strand of this tradition: Cicero’s ideal of the perfect orator.
Giuseppe Ballacci
doaj   +1 more source

Keeping Up With the Joneses: Spillover Effect of M&A Activity to Compensation

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We identify a spillover effect from Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity to CEO compensation. Previous research shows that post‐merger, acquiring CEOs receive higher pay with reduced sensitivity to negative performance. We demonstrate that CEOs who don't engage in M&A, but have compensation peers who do, also experience increased pay and ...
Patty Bick, Ryan Flugum
wiley   +1 more source

The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of an online positive parenting program: A randomized controlled trial

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI), a 6‐week culturally adapted online positive parenting program for Chinese parents of preschoolers. Background Academic‐oriented parenting in China may limit children's opportunities for play‐based learning and socioemotional ...
Minyi Li, Ni Zhang, Shiqi Wang
wiley   +1 more source

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Under the cover of darkness: Foraging behaviour increases on cloudy, new moon nights in a pelagic seabird

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
While many visual predators feed exclusively during the day, others exploit foraging opportunities at night, although the efficiency with which they do so is strongly influenced by ambient light levels. We investigated the influence of variation in nocturnal light on the foraging behaviour of a small pelagic seabird, the European Storm‐petrel ...
Darren Wilkinson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Августинова теорија праведног рата

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2015
Augustine is usually credited as the founder of the theory of just war in Christianity. This theory was defined in the time when Roman Empire was in retreat in front of the barbarians and when Church was struggling against heretics.
Miloš Jelić
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Perceived Effectiveness, Impact and Benefits of a Work‐Based Cancer Survivorship Peer Support Programme: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the perceived effectiveness, impact and benefits of a work‐based cancer survivorship peer support programme for healthcare employees who have experienced or are experiencing cancer. Design A qualitative descriptive study. Methods Purposive sampling was used to recruit 33 participants (10 peers, 12 peer supporters, 4 line ...
Maria O'Malley   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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