Rider University

About: Rider University is a education organization based out in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dosimetry & Creativity. The organization has 881 authors who have published 1934 publications receiving 50752 citations.

A global supply chain profit maximization and transfer pricing model

Abstract: In environments where tax rates in local regions do not represent major decision factors, a cost minimization methodology, which represents the most common optimization modeling approach for integrated manufacturing and distribution planning, can help formulate an effective integrated plan. However, when planning flexibility or alternatives exist because of differing local country tax rates and types and intra-company transfer pricing options, cost minimization methodologies may inaccurately identify profit-maximizing global production and distribution plans. Instead, a profit maximization model that explicitly evaluates decisions such as where to incur tax liabilities and how to set intra-company prices may be required to develop an integrated global manufacturing and distribution plan. In this paper, we discuss and formulate a model that yields profit maximizing global production and distribution plans. We discuss the managerial implications of our results, and the potential applications and benefits of the model.

Unified, Insular, Firmly Policed, or Fractured, Porous, Contested, Gifted Education?:

Abstract: Much like medieval, feudal nations, professional fields such as gifted education can take shape as centralized kingdoms with strong armies controlling their compliant populations and protecting closed borders, or as loose collections of conflict-prone principalities with borders open to invaders. Using an investigative framework borrowed from an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the social sciences and humanities, four scholars of gifted education analyzed four different analytic levels of our field (practice, research, theory, philosophy) to discern whether gifted education is unified, insular, and firmly policed, or fractured, conflict-ridden, and porous. Each disciplinary structure generates unique advantages, disadvantages, and implications for scholars and practitioners.

Examining the Mismatch between Learner-Centered Teaching and Teacher-Centered Supervision:

Abstract: Student teacher supervision, with few exceptions, remains a teacher-centered enterprise. Typical supervision policies, procedures, and forms focus on teachers’ observable behaviors. They grant authority to the perceptions of the supervisor/teacher. The concerns, questions, professional knowledge, and deliberative processes of the student teacher/learner are secondary, if they are considered at all. In this self-study, the authors explore alternatives to teacher-centered supervision by first supervising each other in their own learner-centered college classrooms, then extrapolating what was learned to their student teaching supervision. Data analysis yielded themes of responsibility, power, and purpose; challenges to the lesson as the unit of analysis and standard sources of data on student teachers’ work; and the importance of the social construction of roles and meanings. The authors’ intent is not to put forward yet another model of student teacher supervision but to describe a process of coconstructing...

Observation of magnetic inhomogeneities in crystalline-doped manganites by electron magnetic resonance

Abstract: Electron magnetic resonance measurements were employed for studying the magnetic spin structure in bulk and crushed crystalline samples of doped ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.888}{\mathrm{Na}}_{0.113}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{0.997}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ and ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.833}{\mathrm{Sn}}_{0.126}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{0.997}{\mathrm{O}}_{3},$ and self-doped ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.94}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{0.98}{\mathrm{O}}_{3},$ grown by fused-salt electrolysis. The ferromagnetic resonance exhibits a common characteristic multiline spectrum for single crystals and ``noiselike'' oscillations superimposed on ferromagnetic signal for crushed crystals. A coexistence of ferromagnetic and electron paramagnetic resonance signals was observed in a wide temperature range around ${T}_{c}.$ The results obtained are discussed regarding the presence of inherent magnetic inhomogeneities in studied manganites.

Stock Prices and the Secondary Dissemination of Information: The Wall Street Journal's “Insider Trading Spotlight”Column

Abstract: In this paper we test whether a secondary dissemination of information affects stock prices. We examine stock price reactions to the publication of the “Insider Trading Spotlight”(ITS) column in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Since insider trades reported in the ITS column are initially disclosed to the public when insiders’ reports are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the information contained in the WSJ is a secondary dissemination. Around the WSJ publication day, we find significant abnormal stock performance accompanied by a significant increase in trading volume. Our evidence suggests that a secondary dissemination of information can affect stock prices if the initial public disclosure attracts only limited attention by the market. In addition, we document how insider trading information is conveyed to the market.