Three essays in finance by Chiou, Jian-Jia

“…My thesis contains three essays in finance field, engaging in topics regarding seasoned equity offerings, corporate innovation, corporate governance, common ownership, board gender diversity, retail investors, and market efficiency,. …”
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Three essays on empirical finance by Peng, Zhuozhen

“…The results show that firms with more diversified institutional ownership are associated with larger numbers of new trademark registrations. …”
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Port investment in a volatile environment : a contractual risk perspective on public-private partnership by Xiao, Zengqi

“…The results reveal that PPP investment amount, historical presence of governmental ownership, presence of foreign private investors, and presence of other types of private investors are positively associated with the extent of governmental ownership in port PPPs. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Zhang, Quan

“…The results are robust to using alternative measures of passive institution ownership. The results are also robust to using annual Russell Index reconstitutions as an exogenous shock to passive institutional ownerships. …”
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Rebellious daughters, sisters and wives : non-conforming women in South Asian diaspora fiction by Kaur, Balvinder

“…Drawing from a range of critical studies and fictional narratives, I explore the narrative shifts that occur when these daughters, sisters and wives reject patriarchal ownership in their bid for individuality. The dissertation comprises two main components: an extract of an original work of fiction written by me, and a critical exegesis that contextualises my fiction. …”
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China's rural land transfer: land institutions, trans-local livelihoods, and agrarian capital by Chen, Xingyan

“…Each of these aspects corresponds to a contentious issue: 1) Has China’s land tenure, based on collective land ownership, safeguarded or infringed upon peasants’ land rights? …”
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Three essays of corporate finance by Cha, Yun Ju

“…We find that firms with LISs have higher firm value than those without LISs, particularly when LISs’ ownership is larger and when firms have poor governance. …”
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CEO's temporal orientation : the contexts of CEO retirement and CEO succession by Thosuwanchot, Nongnapat

“…By incorporating prospect theory with agency theory, I also examine different components of major CEOs’ incentives, including cash compensation, stock options and equity ownership, as boundary conditions that can alter retiring CEOs’ temporal orientation. …”
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Securing edge deep neural network against input evasion and IP theft by Wang, Si

“…Three original contributions, including two hardware-oriented approaches, a new lightweight in-situ adversarial input detector for edge DNN, and a method for fingerprinting DNN to attest the model ownership, are presented in this thesis.…”
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Optimization of power and energy management for fuel cell-fed hybrid electric system in marine applications by Chen, Wenjie

“…The main objective of this PhD research is to develop an improved PMS strategy to achieve optimal operation and minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) and operation of marine vessels, considering fuel efficiency, emission limits and the lifetime of power devices. …”
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Urban road transport emissions and potential for reducing emissions by electric vehicles by Dwiyanti Arimbi Jinca

“…This result comes from the series of transportation policies such as vehicle growth control by way of vehicle quota system (VQS) and vehicle ownership in terms of the certificate of entitlement (COE) (which results in a high turnover rate of vehicles) and a combination of fiscal measures (e.g., vehicle taxes). …”
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Robust AI: security and privacy issues in machine learning by Chattopadhyay, Nandish

“…In the context of preserving privacy of the trained neural network models, we direct our attention to protecting ownership and IP rights of the models, using watermarking. …”
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