Shippensburg University

Pet-owner synchrony: Operationalization, application, and implications

Abstract Despite the pet industry’s significant economic and social importance, academic attention to this sector of the economy has been limited. Rather than focusing solely on the household demographics of pet ownership or the attitudinal components of the pet-owner relationshi...

The Performance of Sector ETFs at Long Horizons

This study evaluates the performance of 528 sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) relative to T-bills and the broad stock market from 2001 to 2022. Mean annual returns for sector ETFs range from 5.83% in the utilities sector to 12.01% in the technology sector, compared with an aver...

WIEFERICH PRIMES AND MONOGENIC TRINOMIALS

Abstract A prime p $p$ p is called a Wieferich prime if 2 p − 1 ≡ 1 ( mod p 2 ) $2^{p-1}\equiv 1 \pmod {p^2}$ 2 Superscript p minus 1 Baseline identical to 1 left parenthesis mod p squared right parenthesis . A monic polynomial f ( x ) ∈ Z [ x ] $f(x)\in {\mathbb Z}\, [x]$ f left...