This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we exploit variation from the staggered rollout of CS...

An Empirical Research on Factors Affecting the Liquid-ity of Listed Construction and Materials Firms: Evalua-tion from Quantile Regression Model -- The choice between accrual and real manipulation around information uncertainty -- Capital Structure, Financial Risk, and Operational Ef-ficiency:...

Preface -- Session 1 E-Commerce and Business Informatization -- Research on the Construction of Internal Control System of Cloud Accounting Resource Sharing Platform 1 -- What Makes MNC’s B2B Freemium Model for Start-Ups Work in the Emerging Markets? Insights From India -- The Impact of...

Research on the relationship between innovation openness, R&D investment and innovation performance of manufacturing enterprises. -- Board Characteristics & ESG: Evidence from New Zealand -- The Effect of Online and Offline Social Information on Smartphone Phone Purchase Decision: The Case Study...

The objective of this thesis is to estimate, for adistribution network, confidence intervals containing thevalues of nodal hourly power consumption and nodal maximumpower consumption per customer where they are not measured.The values of nodal hourly power consumption are needed inoperational as...

<CENTER><H4>An Analysis of the Financial Incentives Impact on the Utility Demand-Side Management Programs</h3></center><p align="justify"> Many utilities implement the financial incentive plans in promoting their Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs. The plans are intended to reduce the customer investment cost for a high efficiency...</p></h4>

Understanding the relationship between technology and economics is fundamental to making judicious policy and design decisions. Many technologies that are successful in meeting their technical goals often fail to get adopted due to economic factors. This holds true even for networked systems,...

This dissertation studies several security issues in data networks, to reveal the vulnerability, to propose defense mechanisms, to provide better tools for analysis, and to develop good security architecture. This dissertation consists of the following three parts: (1) Internet-like topologies...