Purpose This study examined the effect of leverage, debt maturity on corporate financial performance of non-financial firms listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange.Targeted population of this study was 100 firm listed at PSX as KSE-100 index out of which 74 non-financial Foot Files firms were selected from 28 different sectors for the period of 5 yea
Estimation of treatment effect in presence of noncompliance and competing risks: a simulation study
Abstract A randomized controlled trial is commonly designed to assess the treatment effect in survival studies, in which patients are randomly assigned to the standard or the experimental treatment group.Upon disease progression, patients who have been randomized to standard treatment are allowed to switch to the experimental treatment.Treatment sw
Ball culture of the Moscow nobility of the 18th - first halfof 19th century: ceremony, entertainment or love game?
In the article on the basic of various sources, including the manuscripts and personal origin, attempt of reconstruction of ball culture of the Russian metropolitan nobility of the eighteenth and the first half of nineteenth century.The author made a conclusion of the nobility ball from compulsory cap state ceremony to secular entertainment determi
Deciphering the intracellular metabolism of Listeria monocytogenes by mutant screening and modelling
Abstract Background The human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes resides and proliferates within the cytoplasm of epithelial cells.While the virulence factors essentially contributing to this step of the infection cycle are well characterized, the set of listerial genes contributing to intracellular replication remains to be defined on a genome-wide l