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Performance and Style Shifts in the Hedge Fund Industry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
We suggest a performance attribution model which is adapted to the requirements of hedge funds by a set of style-consistent benchmark indices obtained from a neural network based clustering procedure. We compare our approach with alternative models and analyze whether fund of hedge funds managers create added value. Employing factor loadingchanges as a
Ramin Baghai-Wadji, Stefan Klocker
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Levels of style-shifting

Journal of Pragmatics, 1985
Abstract This paper investigates speech styles and style-shifting in the speech of the moderator of a German radio participation programme. Style-shifting is shown to affect several distinct linguistic levels: phonetic, morphophonemic, syntactic, and lexical.
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Style-Shifting in Public

2012
Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection.
Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy   +1 more
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Shifting Tacitisms. Style and Composition in Grotius's Annales

Grotiana, 2008
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to assess the nature and proper context of Grotius's imitation of Tacitus. It starts by establishing how the Tacitean style is characterised in the literary criticism around 1600. It then explores the qualities of Grotius's imitation from both the seventeenth-century and the modern perspective.
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Style-shifting in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2001
Using Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth as a case study, this article revisits the issue of speech representation in narrative fiction by drawing on recent socio-linguistic and discourse-analytic research on style. Wharton's novel features a broad range of social styles, with style-shifts both indexing and helping to precipitate conflicts ...
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Style-shifting in the hedge fund industry

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Shifts of students' learning styles on a social work course

Social Work Education, 1993
Social work education involves knowledge, skills, attitude and feelings, and its multidimensionality should be recognised. Kolb's Model of Experiential Learning which conceptualises learning as a four-mode cyclic process is proposed as a compatible model in the study of social work education.
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The interaction of style-shift and particle use in Japanese dialogue

Journal of Pragmatics, 2000
Abstract Until now, research on speaker attitude in Japanese has largely approached style-shift as an independent entity from the use of interactional particles. Through examination of novelised television drama, this study investigates the use of interactional particles such as yo and ne at points of shift between desu/masu and da verb forms
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