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Information Acquisition and Portfolio Under-Diversification

Individual investors hold a fraction of their equity portfolio in a highly diversified mutual fund and another fraction in a small number of highly correlated assets. Such behavior is optimal for investors who face constraints on how much they can learn. Optimal under-diversification arises because of increasing returns to scale...

Tags: Asset, Fraction, Acquisition, Investor, Under-diversification, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2004-09-22

The Polysaccharide Fraction AIP1 From Artemisia Iwayomogi Suppresses Apoptotic Death of the Mouse Spleen Cells in Culture

This paper deals with the polysaccharide fraction, AIP1, purified from Artemisia iwayomogi that was shown to have immuno-modulating and anti-tumor activities in mice. It determines how the AIP1 fraction exhibits the immuno-modulating activity and the investigation of effect of the fraction on the apoptosis of mouse spleen cells. It also...

Tags: Peripherals, Mice, Mouse, Fraction, Hardware

White papers 2003-04-25

Putting Compound Interest to Work Through Zero Coupon Bonds

In chemistry, a compound substance refers to a combination of two or more elements that cannot be separated. In math, a compound fraction means a fraction that has a numerator, a denominator, or both that contain fractions. In finance, compound interest means an investor is likely to achieve his financial...

Tags: Bond, Fraction, Investment, Finance

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Robust control of traffic networks under uncertain conditions

Uncertainty of traffic network operations has been a subject of lively debate in the last decade. However, little effort has been put in developing control frameworks that are not only aimed at improving the average performance of the system, but also at improving the system robustness and...

Articles 2008-09-22

Woodbridge Holdings Corporation Announces Effective Date of Reverse Stock Split

Woodbridge Holdings Corporation (NYSE: WDG) announced today that it intends to effect its previously announcedone-for-five reverse split of its common stock as of the close of businesson September 26, 2008. As previously announced, at the effective time ofthe reverse stock split, each five shares of Woodbridge's Class A CommonStock...

Articles 2008-09-04

Gustav damage may hit up to $10B

Hurricane Gustav packed less of an economic punch than expected, leading analysts to estimate insured damage at between $2 billion and $10 billion. But Gustav is one of only many storms that could wreak havoc on the U.S. this year. "Insurers exhaled a partial sigh of relief, but...

Articles 2008-09-03

Oro Loma Sanitary District raises rates 3 percent

SAN LORENZO -- Taking out the trash just got more expensive. The Oro Loma Sanitary District directors voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve an approximately 3 percent rate hike, a move that affects 45,000 residential customers and 1,000 businesses in San Lorenzo and surrounding areas, including Hayward and...

Articles 2008-09-03

Enterprise Completes Initial Assessment of Onshore Facilities Impacted by Hurricane Gustav; No Major Damage Reported

HOUSTON -- Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) today announced that initial inspections by onsite field crews indicate minimal or no visible damage to its natural gas processing, fractionation and natural gas and liquids pipeline assets in Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Gustav. Enterprise expects to conduct aerial evaluations of...

Articles 2008-09-03

SUPERVALU Launches Its New Exclusive Culinary Circle™ Brand of Premium Foods

Culinary Circle delivers a casual restaurant meal experience at home, at a fraction of the time and cost of dining out MINNEAPOLIS -- At a time when consumers are increasingly looking for ways to stretch their food budgets without sacrificing quality and taste, SUPERVALU (NYSE: SVU) today announced...

Articles 2008-09-03

New Data on the Benefit of Cardiac Devices in Heart Failure Patients Presented At ESC Congress 2008

Analyses Further Support Use of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy in Asymptomatic and Mildly Symptomatic Heart Failure Patients MINNEAPOLIS & MUNICH, Germany -- New analyses presented today during the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology ESC on the effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy CRT in patients with mild...

Articles 2008-09-03

CIT Announces 100th Aircraft Financing Milestone with NetJets

Relationship Approaches $1.5 Billion in Total Lease and Loan Originations NEW YORK -- CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a leading global commercial finance company, today announced that CIT Aerospace, a unit of CIT, has reached a milestone of financing 100 total aircraft, mostly in increments of 1/16th and...

Articles 2008-09-03

ALEXA Membership Grows to 100 Catalogs

American List Exchange Association Files Exceeds 32,000,000 Names EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. -- ALEXA[TM], the American List Exchange Association, today announced that it now has more than 100 prominent catalogs participating as members, while growing its total file size to 32,000,000 names. Created to enhance list exchange...

Articles 2008-09-02

Wind power is overrated

An article of Aug. 19 praises the wind-turbine facility at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. But it's misleading. It says this is a 19-megawatt facility and is expected to produce energy 80 percent of the time. But that doesn't mean it will produce 19 megawatts 80 percent of the...

Articles 2008-09-02

Implanted defibrillators

Implanted Defibrillators: Patients taking optimal drug therapy for mild symptoms of heart failure may benefit from an implanted defibrillator to resynchronize the heart's pumping action. Swedish researchers say those receiving the combination therapy showed a significantly greater improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction than those on drug therapy alone...

Articles 2008-09-01

Classic F1 corners to go in Spa revamp?

Spa-Francorchamps - one of the few remaining classic circuits left on the Formula 1 calendar - may have to be shortened for future editions of the Belgian Grand Prix. The Ardennes track has welcomed F1 on no fewer than 40 occasions since the official inception of the world...

Articles 2008-09-01

'Free' relish leaves a sour taste

DARINA Allen may be "relishing" the success of her Ballymaloe food products around the world. But today we reveal how British supermarket ASDA are literally giving the Cork chef's famous brand away for free. Irish customers are quite happy to fork out...

Articles 2008-08-31

Giovanardi on the back foot.

Points leader Fabrizio Giovanardi has been left with work to do on race day at Silverstone after missing out on a place in the top ten in qualifying for the latest rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship. Despite maximum ballast onboard his Vectra VXR, the...

Articles 2008-08-31

DVDO Launches EDGE™

- Affordable high-quality video processor features complete range of Video Reference SeriesTM (VRSTM) technologies at a fraction of the cost of comparable offerings. - Combination of High Performance and much Lower Price sets new standard enabling broader application in a wider variety of HDTV setups. DENVER...

Articles 2008-08-29

Gotcha! How to swat a fly, and know that it will die

The enduring mystery of why it is so difficult to swat a fly has been solved by scientists who believe they can now offer technical advice on how to hit a fly before it has chance to escape. A series of experiments with high-speed digital cameras and...

Articles 2008-08-29

Settlement in SunCrest case proposed

A deal has been proposed that would allow unsecured creditors of the bankrupt SunCrest development to get back at least a fraction of the money they are owed. The proposed settlement, detailed in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing Thursday, would convert the case from Chapter 11 to...

Articles 2008-08-29