learning about return and risk from the historical record
Balancing risk, return and capital requirements the effect of solvency II on asset allocation and investment strategy
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06/12/2015, 23:08
... higher-rated corporate debt, support the view that insurers are assessing the risk and return trade off for themselves About this Report In October and November 2011, the Economist Intelligence Unit, ... take investment risk, but rather to ensure a direct link between the assets in which they invest their underlying risks and the assigned capital charge He adds: “[Solvency II] may, therefore, have ... in the Netherlands, says: “There are two aspects to consider: the capital that you need to set aside for investing in risky assets and the volatility of that asset price Although hedge funds and...
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Báo cáo y học: "introduction to special issue on Eye and Zoonosis – from the guest editors"
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03/11/2012, 11:11
... acquired and congenital infections in presumed ocular toxoplasmosis Am J Ophthalmol 2008;146:851-5) • Optical Coherence Tomography in ocular toxoplasmosis • Usefulness of vitrectomy in the treatment ... treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis • Update on the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis We hope that this special issue will be interesting to readers and provides researchers with timely update on ... provides researchers with timely update on various topics in this important field Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists http://www.medsci.org ...
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Silychristin and isosilychristin from the fruits
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07/11/2012, 15:53
... were made carefully from HSQC and HMBC and from the comparison with those of as shown in table The H-C long-range correlations in the HMBC were shown in Fig.2 further confirming the structure of ... The ESI mass spectrum of was taken confirming the molecular formula of C25H22O10 of from the appearance of an ion peak at m/z 483 [M+H]+ in the positive and an ion peak at m/z 481 [M-H]+ in the ... correlations in the HMBC of and Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Mr Dang Vu Luong, the NMR Lab., Institute of Chemistry, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology for recording the NMR...
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Tài liệu Unix Use and Security From The Ground Up_ The Prophet pdf
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21/12/2013, 04:19
... is the name of the remote system to perform the command on, and the rest (command line) is the command to be performed, and any arguments to the command You will not receive any of the commnand's ... a value from 0-23 The third field is the day of the month, a value from 1-31 The fifth field is the month of the year, a value from 1-2 The sixth field is the day of the week, a value from 1-7, ... input from the keyboard and send their output to the screen With most commands and programs, however, you can instruct them to draw their input from a text file and redirect their output to another...
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12 Powerful Ideas On Creativity and Business From The PSFK Conference
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09/02/2014, 20:13
... online when they come out, this one should be it The scope of the challenge he and his team at Austin based Frog Design took one was vast … but the solution they offered, and the way they thought ... to carbon footprints The opportunity, as Dana Cho and Beau Trincia from IDEO shared in their presentation, is for brands to embrace and proactively share their “story of the maker.” In a world ... virtual bubble – and when you bring the digital and the real together, you can create the most powerful spectacles that any of us are likely to experience in our lives And if you think about it, that...
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Tài liệu The Benefits of Bank Deposit Rate Ceilings: New Evidence on Bank Rates and Risk in the 1920s (p. 2) docx
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15/02/2014, 05:20
... three years and for all four earnings variables, he found that the higher the earnings, the lower the rate paid on demand deposits Both Cox and Benston drew the obvious implication from their results: ... subperiod, the subperiod totals are smaller: 39 for the first and 27 for the second and third Although the sample banks are from the same market, they are quite diverse, according to some standard ... exchanges and demand cash items, and other items in cash.) • Deposit Rates and Risk The critical variables for this study are deposit rates But for which deposits are the rates on these reports? The...
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AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA A PICTURE OF LIFE AND CUSTOMS FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ppt
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06/03/2014, 12:20
... service, and, under the leadership of their own princes, proved themselves to be the best and truest soldiers of the imperial army, even far from their home in the farthest limits of the realm The ... fetters and throw him head over heels from the terrace of the palace to the courtyard below The horrible deed was done but the wretch was not dead Then the Emperor commanded the shattered body of the ... his grandfather Baber before him, he had many bitter battles with them, for no other Indian people had opposed him so vigorously as they Their domain blocked the way to the south, and from their...
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Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record ppt
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06/03/2014, 19:20
... recoveries from 1880 to the present Figure shows the quarterly path of GDP from the preceding peak to the trough of each business cycle and then the quarterly path of GDP from the trough for the same ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The fabp4 gene of zebrafish (Danio rerio) ) genomic homology with the mammalian FABP4 and divergence from the zebrafish fabp3 in developmental expression pot
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07/03/2014, 10:20
... including the diencephalon, hindbrain, spinal cord, and somites (Fig 5A) At 24 hpf, the fabp4 transcripts were abundant in the lens and in the dorsal diencephalon, and visible in the choroid fissure The ... ligand-binding specificity and affinity [10] In addition to the similar threedimensional structure and ligand-binding specificity and affinity of FABP3 and FABP4, the transcripts and proteins of the two paralogous ... fabp3 and other fish and mammalian FABP genes was performed using clustalx [43] The Antarctic fish H6-FABP and H8FABP sequences were included in this analysis, and the putative FABP4 sequences from...
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SCULPTURE AND INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE MONUMENTAL ENTRANCE TO THE PALATIAL COMPLEX AT KERKENES DAG, TURKEY pot
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07/03/2014, 13:20
... Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece The Oriental Institute News & Notes Epigrafia greca Anatolian Studies Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975 The Highlands of Phrygia: Sites and Monuments ... Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Cult Image and Divine Representation, The Queen of the Night The Furniture of Western Asia, Ancient and Traditional: Papers of the Conference Held at the Institute ... Hittites The Birth of Greek Art: The Mediterranean and the Near East Istanbuler Mitteilungen The Aegean, Birthplace of Western Civilization: History of East Greek Art and Culture, 1050333 B.C The...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular cloning, expression analysis and functional confirmation of ecdysone receptor and ultraspiracle from the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata pdf
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07/03/2014, 21:20
... [29–33], and were also reported for a dipteran, the yellow fever mosquitoe Aedes aegypti [34], and lepidopterans, the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta [35–37] and the silkworm Bombyx mori [38,39] On the ... 2A, the EcR message steeply increased at day 4, then remained at the high expression level until day Total RNAs from the whole body of male and female adult, testis and ovaries as well as from ... LdEcR and LdUSP (A) LdEcR mRNA and LdUSP mRNA expression in the fat body (FB), gut (GUT), integument (INT) and whole body (WB) at day in the last larval instar, in the INT at day 0, 2, 4, and in the...
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Marching to Different Drummers: Health Advocacy Groups in Canada and Funding from the Pharmaceutical Industry pptx
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22/03/2014, 11:20
... opposed to women in their 70s and 80s] that osteoporosis was something they needed to be thinking about then because there were steps they could take in their 50s and 60s to make sure they didn’t end ... funding from an arm’s length health advocacy agency They will be required to disclose the amount of their funding from this agency (as well as from other sources) and the terms of reference of the ... that the superior safety record of drugs in the US prior to 1992 came from a meticulous and rigorous review process and a political culture of independence from industry within the FDA.31 The...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Identification, cloning and characterization of two thioredoxin h isoforms, HvTrxh1 and HvTrxh2, from the barley seed proteome pot
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23/03/2014, 17:22
... HvTrxh1 and HvTrxh2 The residues that differ between HvTrxh1 and HvTrxh2 are mainly at the N-termini and C-termini of the proteins, and they are mostly located away from the active site in the modelled ... of the inserts were determined on both strands and found to be as expected from the identied TC sequences, and conrmed that the cloning junctions were correct Accession numbers for HvTrxh1 and ... by the antibody, spots 296, 297 and 313 (Fig 1A) were considered likely to contain thioredoxin h The approximate molecular mass and pI of the proteins in these spots were determined from their...
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o'reilly - unix backup and recovery - from the o'reilly anthology
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31/03/2014, 17:17
... volumes but can't find them if you need them, what good are they? There is also the physical layout of the servers themselves If they are all laid out in a standard way, recovering from a disaster is ... restore at all For example, if the operating system disk is crashed, you simply put the disks back the way they were and then rebuild the stripe in the same order, and the data should be intact I've ... both the volumes and the storage vendor cost money You might decide to send them off-site only once a week On the other hand, the cost of re-creating that data must be taken into account, and...
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university of minnesota press high techne art and technology from the machine aesthetic to the posthuman nov 1999
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11/06/2014, 12:49
... Art and R L Rutsky Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman Art and Technology from the Machine University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London Aesthetic to the Posthuman Art and ... technological and the aesthetic have become techno-cultural The Aesthetics of High Tech The high-tech aesthetic obviously draws heavily from, and in fact develops out of, the modernist “machine aesthetic.” ... it is, in other words, the semblance of machinery, of the kind seen in dreams, at the theatre, at the cinema” (p 21) The connection between the cinematic and the bachelor machine is, then, a matter...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Algorithms for Blind Components Separation and Extraction from the Time-Frequency Distribution of Their Mixture" docx
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23/06/2014, 01:20
... the program selects the smallest value and the points associated to them This will yield the location where the crossing occurred and the components involved in the crossing Then, we use a simple ... display the estimated IFs of the two components The dotted lines correspond to the HAF algorithm and the dashed lines correspond to the proposed first algorithm The true IFs are represented by the ... sequentially That is, the algorithm extracts the first component (or part of it), then the next one, and so on until the last one Normally, the overall energy in the TFD becomes smaller and smaller after...
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A comparative analysis on making polite apologies in english and vietnamese from the cross cultural perspective
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27/07/2014, 18:51
... various relationships in these situations such as the student to the professor, the student to the student, the host to the guest, the employee to the boss, the stranger to the stranger This variety ... collected to serve for the direction of the thesis From November to December, the thesis proposal was corrected carefully through the instructor‟s advices At the end of December, the thesis proposal ... similarities and differences between the languages In the present study, the focus of analysis is to find out the similarities and differences in Vietnamese and English in the way of native English and...
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Adobe Photoshop CS Tips and Tricks from the Experts - part 1 doc
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05/08/2014, 23:21
... adjust the gradient in any way you want Clicking the paint wells below the gradient allows you to move their position or change their color in the settings area Clicking below the gradient where there ... well The wells along the top of the gradient control opacity 10 Adjust the angle Once you have the gradient you want, click OK to exit the Editor Back in the Layer Style dialog, adjust the Angle ... Black and White, ready for editing the layer mask Constrain the correction With the foreground color set to Black, use the Brush tool set to a soft-edged brush to paint out the correction in the...
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