abnormal powers

12 each: Prestone Power Steering Fluid (AS-261)
$55.06
Sold as one unit. (1 unit = 12 each.) Protects seals and helps prevent abnormal wear. Helps stop squealing. 32 oz. bottle . Manufacturer number: AS-261. SKU #: 8003147. Country of origin: (TBA). Distributed by Honeywell Consumer Prdts Grp.

Defense Industry Mergers and Monopoly Power: Analysis of Abnormal Earnings Using the Edwards-Bell-Ohlson Model
$36.95
This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A399043. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Recent defense industry consolidation has created several large defense firms. As a result of merger activity with their suppliers and competitors, these firms account for an increasing percentage of sales to the Department of Defense. This thesis investigated seven large defense industry mergers, involving 12 defense firms, to assess the effect of the mergers on the firms. Changes in a firms' anticipated abnormal earnings both premerger and post-merger were analyzed to determine whether the defense firms exhibit monopoly power. The merger process was divided into five stages. The Edwards- Bell-Ohlson (EBO) valuation model was used to create measures of firms' expected abnormal earnings at each stage. Each firm's resulting abnormal rates of return on equity were observed and analyzed between stages to track changes in assessments of expected abnormal earnings as the merger process proceeded. Major findings indicate that post-merger abnormal rates of return increased from premerger levels for all firms. These findings are consistent with defense firm earnings power and monopoly position increasing due to merger activity.

The specification and power of tests to detect abnormal changes in corporate investment [An article from: Journal of Corporate Finance]
$10.95
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Corporate Finance, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
We evaluate methods used to measure abnormal changes in capital expenditures. We examine both statistical tests and models of expected capital expenditures. We find that commonly used research designs yield test statistics that are misspecified, even in random samples. In cases where sample firms share a common characteristic such as extremely low or high investment, size, leverage, return on assets or market-to-book ratio, it is very important to match sample firms to a control group that shares this pre-event characteristic. We also find that using control groups, rather than a single control firm, yields more powerful test statistics.

The Power of the Inner Judge: Psychodynamic Treatment of the Severe Neuroses
$66.00
This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego. Diverging widely from Kernberg's and Kohut's work with the same broad spectrum of patients, L���on Wurmser demonstrates his flexible and individualized method with clinical material taken directly from actual patient?therapist interaction. The core of the therapeutic work focuses on trauma; forms of defense; conflicts within the superego; and the related affects of guilt, shame, depression, and resentment. Appreciating the complex and individual nature of each case, the author uses the familiar concepts of masochism, aggression, narcissism, and repetition compulsion as descriptions, not explanations, of clinical observations. There are no shortcuts; a genuine understanding that results in real change for the patient requires an in-depth exploration of the material in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Observing that categories, while necessary, tend to be slowly transformed into words of devaluation, Dr. Wurmser addresses the implicit, and often quite explicit, judgmental spirit directed toward severely ill patients, and cautions clinicians to avoid falling into the role of a judging authority. This is an eloquent accounting of a master therapist's successes and failures, valuable especially for offering effective and decisive interventions in treating traditionally untreatable patients.