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Showing 1 to 20 of 5692 for “"return"”.
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Return
… field research, development, and contexts around Return, my dissertation project.
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Gabriel's Return
Screenplay.
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Orifice of Return
Orifice of Return is a collection of poetry that posits Black femme bodies as living and breathing archives, corporeal manifestations of intuitive and intellectual claims at survival. The poems in this collection illustrate the multifaceted nature of my craft, through which the personal, the …
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War and Return
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>WAR AND RETURN</p> <p>By</p> <p>Alexander Vartan Gubbins</p> <p><em>War and Return</em> is a collection of poetry that pivots on the conflict between loss of human life, sometimes even whole cities, and reinvention of cultural identity. In these poems, I search for and shape my …
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Roll related return in the S&P GSCI Excess Return Index
… prices will be profitable. However, the return performance of the S&P GSCI rarely equals the price change of its underlying spot commodities. This thesis examines the historical excess returns of S&P GSCI futures holdings from 2007 to 2013, duplicating the official S&P GSCI trading …
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Risk, Return and Credit
… the role of credit in the evaluation of risk and return. The research comprises three essays, which analyze the use of credit from different perspectives. Chapter 1: The first essay proposes a comprehensive theory for the assessment and implementation of "acceptable" underwriting and rating …
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Risk-return portfolio modelling
… a given security as the variance of the expected return and showed how under certain conditions an investors portfolio can be managed by balancing the expected return of the portfolio and its variance. Building on Markowitz original framework, William Sharpe, extended these ideas by connecting a …
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Real bond return parity
We test a set of assumptions that imply the return parity of long-run, real bonds denominated in different currency numeraire. The joint hypothesis is rejected in our post-2009 sample of developing and developed market currencies; however, we document a strong relationship between changes in the …
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Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood
… devastation still exists, but the community returns to their original village site once a year for a gathering called Kewekapawetan, meaning “going back” or “looking back” in the Cree language. My film documents my interactions with family members at this gathering in 2008, and uses archival …
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The return-sweep in reading.
Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that take a reader’s fixation from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Our current understanding of return-sweeps is limited to a description of their physical characteristics. Moving beyond these descriptive characteristics, this thesis …
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Essays on asset return predictability
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Risk-Return Tradeoffs and Managerial incentives
… this assumption or the role of such risk-return tradeoffs in incentive compensation design. Using measures based on the firm’s stock price, I find that shareholder value increases with risk, consistent with managerial risk aversion imposing agency costs on shareholders. I also find that …
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Accurate portfolio risk-return structure modelling
Markowitz's modem portfolio theory has played a vital role in investment portfolio management, which is constantly pushing the development on volatility models. Particularly, the stochastic volatility model which reveals the dynamics of conditional volatility. Financial time series and volatility …
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Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine
In the 1960's, psychedelic drugs were a part of not only popular culture, but also cuttingedge psychology research. Scientists were studying these drugs in the hope of understanding and treating various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they …
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Airborne radar altimeter return waveform computations
… the effects of pointing angle errors on the return information and difficulty in performing accurate range tracking. In order to understand these problems, investigation of the sensitivity of the average return waveforms to pointing errors is necessary. These waveforms are computed using a …
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Return to work following a sick leave
… Icelandic organizations welcome their employees' returning to work after sick leave. Employee's sick leave is an unavoidable part of organizations, but the scope of how Icelandic organizations welcome their employees back is relatively unknown. The research used a qualitative method to gather data …
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