Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2009. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 212 pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Radio-Television-Film / This report is the narrative chronology of my nine-year process of writing my first ever feature film script, Saturn Returns, which I’ve submitted in final draft form as my thesis work for this degree. / text

Recent financial literature suggests that the variation in the dividend–price ratio is significantly related to the expected returns but not to the expected dividend growth. In other words, stock returns are predictable but dividend growth is not. However, most of this evidence comes from the U.S. at the aggregate level, and there is a lack of research that relates to this topic in the New Zealand stock market. This research examines the predictive power of the dividend–price ratio using New Zealand stock market data from 1931 to 2012. The results confirm the claim in the U.S data that returns are predictable but dividend growth is not in the New Zealand stock market data. This research also investigates whether the return predictability is associated with risk-pricing or mispricing; whether the return predictability is due to the fundamental relationship among the dividend–price ratio, future returns and future dividend growth, or whether it is due to the effects of historical events; whether out-of-sample forecasts will have the same patterns as in-sample predictions; and whether individual company returns are predictable.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Warfare Systems Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Housel, Thomas J. ; Bergin, Richard D. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 9, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: ROI, return on investment, ROA, return on asset, IT ROI, IT performance, IT valuation, KVA, Knowledge Value Added, public sector finance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65). Also available in print.

In January 2019, Ghana launched its Year of Return program to mark 400 years since the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. The year-long event was described as a spiritual birth right journey for members of the Black diaspora and aimed to boost tourism and migration to the country by posing Ghana as a key destination for the Black diaspora and African Americans in particular. As the Ghanaian state encourages the diaspora to travel and migrate to Ghana to help boost its economy, Ghanaian citizens are looking for opportunities to migrate out of Ghana for better education and employment opportunities. Considering this dichotomy, this thesis explores the differing and often contrasting mobilities apparent in the Black diaspora through the context of the Year of Return program. It is informed by fieldwork conducted via information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the COVID-19 pandemic through participant observation, interviews, and media analysis. This thesis first explores how Ghana's historical relationship with the Black diaspora laid the groundwork for the success of the Year of Return. It then explores how different understandings of Blackness were used by the Ghanaian state to promote connections across the Black diaspora. Finally, it focuses on the differing mobilities characterizing the phenomenon of return to Ghana to inquire into the state of global Black mobility.

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The present study was designed to look at inhibition of return within a schizophrenic population for the first time. Inhibition of return is an attentional phenomenon that has been studied with a number of populations, and has been shown to be present in normal individuals. Based on the disattention hypothesis put forth by Cromwell and colleagues (e.g., Cromwell & Dokecki, 1968), it was hypothesized that patients with schizophrenia would show an impaired inhibition of return. Twenty-eight inpatients with schizophrenia, and 19 normal comparisons were evaluated on a visual inhibition of return task. Consistent with hypotheses, schizophrenia patients have significant impairments in inhibition of return compared to normal comparison participants. Further, the relative lack of inhibition of return in the schizophrenic group was found to be strongest to stimuli in the left visual field. These results provide initial support for a reconceptualization of the disattention hypothesis.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Offering price is set by public company and underwriter, but the price always is underpriced. There is a restricted price fluctuation in Taiwanese stock market, which causes price of initial public offering doesn¡¦t response real marker situation in short run. New securities laws and regulations requests underwriter set an appropriate offering price to meet the real situation of supply and demand in market since 2005. Competent authority cancels offering price formula and rules that new stocks are offered by public subscription and book building. We take IPO samples since 2005, to research performance between public information and initial return. The conclusions of this study are presented as follows: 1.The emerging stock company becomes over-the-counter (OTC) company or the OTC company becomes listed company by initial public offering, which average transaction price of last transaction date in market is a good estimator that can predict initial return performance of IPO. The higher average transaction price of last transaction date in market, the more initial return. 2.New securities laws and regulations requests underwriter set an appropriate offering price to meet the real situation of supply and demand in market. The underwater has an incentive to set a lower offering price to avoid law risks. 3.The median of book building price range is smaller than market price, the higher closing price of first listed transaction date.