So where does a new author begin? Begin with an idea, give it an innovative slant, complete the library research, and write the body of the article focusing on the main idea. Include an interesting introduction, informative tables and figures, accurate reference list, and concluding summary of the article's main points. There are no secrets to publishing an article, rather there is a process, methodical and orderly, that moves the nurse author from idea to publication.

News are the direct channel through which most investors learn about fundamental changes, hence news publishing should have a large impact on asset pricing. However, current literature mostly focuses on the sentiment contained by news and how would it affect investors behavior. The objective of this dissertation, instead, is to study the fundamental information about links between assets that is disclosed in news. Moreover, in an equilibrium where investors delegate their information choices to news editors, the partial coverage decisions on such information can unveil the current economy condition and the co-movement between assets. Chapter 2 shows that the business news is a rich source of data on distressed firm links that drive firm-level and aggregate risks. The news tends to report about links in which a less popular firm is distressed and may contaminate a more popular firm. This constitutes a contagion channel that yields predictable returns and downgrades. Shocks to the degree of news-implied firm connectivity predict increases in aggregate volatilities, credit spreads, and default rates, and declines in output. Chapter 3 further shows that peer linkages instead can be found in news on cryptocurrencies. Such linkages induce significant price co-movement in crypto markets in excess of common risk factors and correlated demand shocks. When large abnormal return shocks hit one crypto, its peers experience unusually large abnormal returns of the opposite sign. These effects are primarily concentrated among smaller peers and revert after several weeks, resulting in predictable returns. Trading strategies can be developed to exploit this reversal, and they are significantly profitable even after accounting for trading frictions. Chapter 4 on the other hand suggests that news editors have state-dependent preferences for different types of firms. Moreover, firms with high editor preference earn higher returns than those with low preferences, on average. This is consistent with the theory positing that if investors delegate their information selection to news editors, the state-dependent coverage decisions signal risky features and hence covered firms require more risk compensation. The annualized excess return of around 12% due to coverage cannot be explained by standard risk factors. This excess is also present among non-covered firms but is more short-lived.

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This biographical dissertation focuses upon Katherine Anne Porter's relationship with her literary agent, Cyrilly Abels, and her editors and publishers, Donald Brace and Seymour Lawrence, who were associated with Harcourt, Brace and Atlantic-Little, Brown respectively. The study is based upon the thousands of pages of correspondence between Porter and her professional associates housed in the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter at the University of Maryland. Porter's professional alliances are placed within the context of nineteenth and twentieth century publishing history and within a long tradition of idiosyncratic author editor/agent dependencies that can be traced throughout American literary history.;The heart of the dissertation includes in depth analysis of the writer's intimate and complex professional friendships with Donald Brace, Seymour Lawrence, and Cyrilly Abels. Porter became dependent upon her publishers for financial and emotional support. The writer's publishers strengthened her artistic identity and offered loyalty and continuous support. at the same time, they demanded the loyalty of their valued client, and they exerted powerful control over her creative agenda. Porter sought to please her publishers for personal as well as practical reasons. For three decades, she struggled to meet their demand that she unnaturally transform herself from a brilliant short story writer into a novelist. In trying fruitlessly to fulfill their expectation, her financial indebtedness to them grew steadily; she experienced years of frustration, anxiety, and despair, contributing to an arduous creative journey marked by prolonged silences. Gradually, Porter developed an extreme resentment, even hostility, toward her publishers, especially after she discovered that she had unknowingly relinquished all of her literary rights and controls to them. She discovered the hard way that the complete trust she had put in her publishers had been misguided. She would have been wise to employ the services of an agent early on in her career, but she mistakenly believed that agents were superfluous and would only interfere with the author-publisher bonds she wished to cultivate. By the time Porter finally chose to work with an agent she trusted implicitly, Cyrilly Abels, it was too late in her career to make a practical difference.;Katherine Anne Porter experienced the publishing world as intimate, familial, and nurturing and also as competitive, results-oriented, and mercenary. The contradictions within this world made it difficult for the writer to navigate, as her inner world of imagination and creativity were profoundly at odds with the practical aspects of profits, losses, contracts, and deadlines. Ironically, the writer's inability to distance herself from her editors and publishers encouraged her complete cooperation with them, so that she participated actively in her own artistic incarceration.

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A vast amount of microdata about individuals and entities are collected and published for different purposes, such as demographic and public health research. However, data in its original form contains sensitive information about the individuals and publishing such data violates individuals privacy. To resolve this problem, privacy-preserving data publishing (PPDP) proposes many approaches to generate a public version of data that is practically useful and an individual’s privacy is protected. k-anonymity has emerged as an efficient approach to protect the individual’s privacy by generalizing and/or suppressing portions of the data to make individuals indistinguishable in the released data. Existing generalization algorithms focus on minimizing the information loss during generalization of attribute values. Any data dependencies defined over the data may be lost during this generalization step. A data dependency is a formal concept which is used to describe patterns in data. These patterns are employed during data analysis and data cleaning. A typical data dependency in a database is a Functional Dependency (FD): X -> Y expresses that the values of attribute X uniquely determine the values of attribute Y e.g. postal code -> province means the value of postal code uniquely determines the value of province. In this thesis, we study the problem of publishing data with two objectives. First, protecting the identity of the individuals in the published data through k-anonymity. Second, to provide high utility by preserving the instances of the data dependencies in the released data. We introduce dependency loss as a penalty measure for the anonymized public data. We define and study the problem of dependency-preserving generalization for finding a public database instance that guarantees privacy through k-anonymity and has minimum dependency loss. We present two clustering-based generalization algorithms that find such a database instance and we run experiments to show the comparable performance and improved utility in preserving data dependencies of our algorithms. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

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