Cottey College

Abstract: Purpose – The paper aims to examine whether corporate investment in social responsibility takes away from expected dividends.Design/methodology/approach – The article builds two hypotheses that are tested empirically through the analysis of 17,670 US firm‐year observations covering the period 1991‐2007. The tests are conducted in both univariate and multivariate settings.Findings – The evidence supports the hypothesis that mature firms tend to invest more in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Specifically, firms investing highly in CSR tend to be larger, more profitable, and with greater earned (rather than contributed) equity. The evidence also supports the hypothesis that CSR investment does not subtract from dividends. Instead, CSR effort and dividend tend to increase together. Thus, CSR investment tends to be effected by companies who can afford it, and it does not lower value by lowering investors' expected payout.Practical implications – These results imply that spending resources on CSR does no...

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between sex-role attitude change and female victims' reports of rape incidents to police in an analysis of time-series data from national attitude surveys of college freshmen and adults, and from annual victimization surveys. Declining support for traditional sex-role attitudes among both college women and men is strongly related to an increase in the proportion of rapes by nonstranger assailants that were reported to police from 1973 to 1985. However, victims' reports of rapes by strangers are more closely related to offenders' use of weapons during sexual assaults. These findings and other evidence against alternative explanations suggest that the cultural bases for “rape myths” have eroded during the 1970s and 1980s, and that broader definitions of rape have contributed to increased reporting of certain forms of sexual assault to police.

Abstract: With the advancement in technology, the demand for green energy production and storage is increasing year by year. To meet the increasing demand for green energy, there has been continuous research in a bid to find better materials and efficient ways to store energy. Supercapacitors continue to show a promising green energy storage capacity with their modified and improved electrode materials, which show better electrochemical properties. Transition metals such as Fe, Mo, Ni, etc. based materials have shown great potential for electrode materials in supercapacitors, electrocatalysts for water splitting, and urea oxidation reaction (UOR). In this work, nanostructured nickel‑cobalt oxide and nickel‑cobalt sulfide were synthesized using a facile hydrothermal method for their applications in a supercapacitor, water splitting, and urea oxidation reaction. It was observed that the properties of nickel‑cobalt oxide improved significantly after converting it to nickel‑cobalt sulfide. The energy storage capacity of nickel‑cobalt sulfide was significantly enhanced compared to nickel‑cobalt oxide. Additionally, nickel‑cobalt sulfide showed an overpotential of 282 mV, while nickel‑cobalt oxide displayed an overpotential of 379 mV to generate a current density of 10 mA/cm2, towards oxygen evolution reaction. After the introduction of 0.33 M urea, the potential for oxidation of urea for both nickel‑cobalt oxide and nickel‑cobalt sulfide was reduced significantly.