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Long term portfolio construction
… commonly advice individual investors with a long investment horizon to invest in portfolios comprised more of equities. This advice is usually coupled with the practice of shifting the investor's portfolio from risky asset holdings towards bonds and cash as the investor's target date gets …
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Modelling long-term security returns
… trajectories with an independent Poisson process term based on the GBM model. Market crashes, defined as a decline of at least 10% in the S&P500 over a maximum of 252 trading days, are modelled using a homogeneous Poisson process. The combined simulation results show that the model is effective in …
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Inhibition in long-term memory
… examined the issue of inhibitory processes in long-term memory. Several theoretical frameworks, which posit various loci of an inhibitory mechanism, have been examined. The locus of an inhibitory mechanism was investigated within the retrieval practice paradigm, in which inhibition is recruited …
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Personal long-term memory aids
… help remedy common memory problems. Assuming a long-term personal archive exists, when confronted with a memory problem, one faces a new challenge, that of finding relevant memory triggers. This dissertation examines the use of information-retrieval technologies on long-term archives of personal …
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Long term impact of endocrine tumors
Contains fulltext : 207771.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Estimating Long Term Equity Implied Volatility
Estimating and extrapolating long term equity implied volatilities is of importance in the investment and insurance industry, where ’long term’ refers to periods of ten to thirty years. Market-consistent calibration is difficult to perform in the South African market due to lack of long term liquid …
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Long-term care and the elderly
Long-term care expenditures represent one of the largest uninsured financial risks facing the elderly. Medicaid provides incomplete insurance against these costs: unlimited nursing home benefits with a deductible equal to the savings and income above the means-testing limits. While private …
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Are long-term earnings targets forecasts?
… paper examines whether earnings targets used in long-term performance-based compensation plans predict future performance. Using a sample of targets from long-term grants made to CEOs from 2007 to 2012, I find that earnings targets provide information about future earnings outcomes; however, …
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Commitment in long term cohabiting couples
Researchers on close relationships presupposed marriage as a central measure of successful commitment and identified a mix of structural and personal motives underlying commitment. Debate on how to measure and predict commitment has been prompted by its conceptual complexity and the importance of …
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Long term behavior of Arall laminates
The behavior of ARALL (ARamid ALuminum Laminates) subjected to tension-tension cyclic loading was experimentally investigated as a first step towards the understanding of the fatigue damage mechanisms in Arall laminates, and the relationships between damage and stiffness change, remaining strength …
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Female Mate Selection for Long-Term Relationships
… opposites attract. However, in order to have a long-term relationship individuals tend to marry someone who is similar to them. I propose that females tend to select partners who are similar to themselves. Previous studies have shown that individuals do tend to select partners who are similar in …
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Long Term Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure
… This thesis provides an in-depth review of the long-term management of CHF, beginning with its etiology and epidemiology. It explores the mechanisms driving disease progression, including neurohumoral activation, structural changes, and chronic inflammation. A central focus is on clinical …
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Combating employee burnout in long-term care
Employee burnout in long-term care is a growing concern due to the changing demographics of individuals admitted to nursing homes in the United States. There is an increase in the number of admissions to nursing homes that include residents with dementia or some form of major mental illness. In …
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Long-Term Modelling of Composite Pavement Performance
… such as dynamic vehicle loading in modelling the long-term performance of flexible composite pavement structures. The mechanisms of traffic driven reflective cracking are investigated, as well as a thermal driven cracking model. The above models are combined with a dynamic vehicle model into a …
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Long-term creep of encased polymer liners
… this work, a testing method was developed to determine the long-term creep behavior of encased polymer liners.;Short-term tests, following the ASTM D790 procedure, were conducted on pipe liner samples to determine the initial elastic modulus and compare it to the elastic modulus obtained from …
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Long-Term Heroin Careers: Narratives of Persistence
This thesis seeks to understand persistence in long-term heroin careers. This includes thick description of the processes and micro level interactions experienced by heroin users. In addition, it aims to account for variation found within heroin careers as well as differences between the careers of …
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Long-term variation in cosmic-ray modulation
The transport of cosmic rays inside the heliosphere can be described b the Parker equation (Parker, 1965). Since there are no full analytica solutions to the Parker equation, two first-order approximate solutions o the equation can be derived, namely the Convection-Diffusion and th Force-Field …
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