Essays about: "zero leverage"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words zero leverage.

  1. 6. Strategic targets and KPIs for improved value chain circularity and sustainability performance : A case study of a large manufacturing enterprise within the energy sector

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Industriell miljöteknik

    Author : Jonas Jansson; Herman Holmberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Circular Economy; Circular Economy business; Key Performance indicator; Circular indicators; Sustainable value chain; sustainable business models. sustainability; circular business model; resource efficiency; Environmental strategy; sustainability strategy; energy efficiency; Circularity; Circular business; KPI; Sustainability KPI; Renewable Energy; Circular targets; sustainability target; Circular transformation; Industrial manufacturing; sustainable manufacturing; Cirkulär ekonomi; hållbar utveckling; Mätetal; Hållbarhetsstrategi;

    Abstract : Global consumption levels currently extend far beyond what planet Earth in terms of natural resources can regenerate in a sustainable manor and will by 2050 reach levels corresponding to what it would require three Earths to sustain. This overexploitation and unsustainable management of the Earth’s resources in combination with the necessity of mitigating climate change and reaching net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 require action across all sectors, not least the manufacturing industry. READ MORE

  3. 7. Zero-shot, One Kill: BERT for Neural Information Retrieval

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Stergios Efes; [2021]
    Keywords : neural information retrieval; passage ranking; weak supervision; question answering; passage reranking; BERT; transfer-learning in IR; zero-shot IR; passage-retrieval; BERT for passage-retrieval; MS Marco; information retrieval; neural IR;

    Abstract : [Background]: The advent of bidirectional encoder representation from trans- formers (BERT) language models (Devlin et al., 2018) and MS Marco, a large scale human-annotated dataset for machine reading comprehension (Bajaj et al., 2016) that made publicly available, led the field of information retrieval (IR) to experience a revolution (Lin et al. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Zero-leverage Puzzle : Evidence from Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Spennare; [2021]
    Keywords : financing decisions; capital structure; zero leverage; debt conservatism; financial constraints; financial flexibility;

    Abstract : This study investigates why some firms have no debt in their capital structure despite the potential benefits of leverage. A logistic regression analysis is used to examine the impact of firm-specific characteristics on a firm’s propensity to have zero leverage. READ MORE

  5. 9. Ownership Structure and the Zero-leverage Puzzle – An empirical study on the Swedish market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Rasmusson; [2019]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

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  6. 10. Puncturable Symmetric KEMs for Forward-Secret 0-RTT Key Exchange

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik

    Author : Matilda Backendal; [2019]
    Keywords : cryptography; cryptographic protocols; session resumption; forward secrecy; 0-RTT; TLS 1.3; puncturable PRFs; key encapsulation mechanisms; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The latest version of the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS 1.3) introduces a pre-shared key zero round-trip time (0-RTT) mode. This enables session resumption with no latency before the first application data can be sent, at the cost of losing forward secrecy and replay protection. READ MORE