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Portfolio management with cryptocurrencies: The role of estimation risk

Economics Letters, 2019
This paper contributes to the literature on cryptocurrencies, portfolio management and estimation risk by comparing the performance of naive diversification, Markowitz diversification and the advanced Black–Litterman model with VBCs that controls for ...
Emmanouil Platanakis, Andrew Urquhart
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Donor age contributes more to the rheological properties of stored red blood cells than donor sex and biological age distribution

Blood Advances
: The quality of stored red cell concentrates (RCCs) has been linked to the biological age distribution of red blood cell (RBC) subpopulations. Teenage male RCCs contain higher proportions of biologically old RBCs, with poorer quality.
Olga Mykhailova, Mackenzie Brandon-Coatham, Sanaz Hemmatibardehshahi, Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh, Carly Olafson, Qi-Long Yi, Tamir Kanias, Jason P. Acker   +7 more
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A review of the use of Streptozotocin (STZ) in the induction of diabetes in rats and subsequent ocular tissue changes

African Vision and Eye Health, 2009
Streptozotocin is widely used in medical research for treating certain cancers of the Islets of Langerhans and to produce an animal model for type 1 diabetes.
H. L. Sithole
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Green portfolios

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
We develop a long-horizon framework that merges Merton’s intertemporal portfolio theory with the damage-based logic of Nordhaus-type climate models. In this setting, equity investments can damage future production and consumption possibilities through their climate impact. We identify the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) as a key determinant of both optimal
Fischer, Thomas, Lundtofte, Frederik; id_orcid 0000-0003-2613-3816, Parra-Alvarez, Juan Carlos; id_orcid 0000-0001-9076-9021   +2 more
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Isolation of anti-mycobacterial compounds from Curtisia dentata (Burm.f.) C.A.Sm (Curtisiaceae)

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2017
Background Tuberculosis is counted amongst the most infectious and lethal illnesses worldwide and remains one of the major threats to human health. The aim of the current study was to isolate and characterize anti-mycobacterial compounds present in ...
Victor O. Fadipe, Nkoana I. Mongalo, Andy R. Opoku, Preachers M. Dikhoba, Tshepiso J. Makhafola   +4 more
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Polymer Coating Enabled Carrier Modulation for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Network Inverters and Antiambipolar Transistors

Nanomaterials
The control of the performance of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) random network-based transistors is of critical importance for their applications in electronic devices, such as complementary metal oxide semiconducting (CMOS)-based logics.
Zhao Li, Jenner H. L. Ngai, Jianfu Ding
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Inedible II

, 2008
One print from a portfolio issued by Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction ...
Tolley, Rebekah A. L.
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Ambiguity aversion and household portfolio choice puzzles: Empirical evidence

Journal of Financial Economics, 2016
We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: nonparticipation in equities, low allocations to equity, home-bias, own-company stock ownership, and portfolio under-diversification.
Stephen G. Dimmock, Roy Kouwenberg, Olivia S. Mitchell, Kim Peijnenburg   +3 more
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Untitled

, 2008
One print from a portfolio issued by Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction Vermont. It consists of a limited edition of thirty-seven prints and six artist proofs by each of twenty-six artists affiliated with Two ...
Jayne, Debra
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Analysis of optimum informational support for sales channels during product launches

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2008
The aim of this article is to analyse efficiency of sales channels in the time when new products are being launched. As the most suitable method for this analysis was chosen the method of mystery shopping because it can properly compare and measure the ...
Michal Vodák
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