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Hedge Fund Manager Skill and Style-Shifting

open access: yesManagement Science, 2018
Using a novel style identification procedure, we show that style-shifting is a dynamic strategy commonly used by hedge fund managers. Three quarters of hedge funds shifted their investment styles at least once over the period from January 1994 to December 2013.
George J. Jiang   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Young and the Old: (t) Release in Elderspeak

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2017
Elderspeak refers to a speech style used when talking to the elderly. The aim of this study was to find out whether a higher rate of standard phonetic variants of phonemes is a feature of elderspeak.
James Michaelov
doaj   +1 more source

Style-Agnostic Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
We present a novel method of learning style-agnostic representation using both style transfer and adversarial learning in the reinforcement learning framework. The style, here, refers to task-irrelevant details such as the color of the background in the images, where generalizing the learned policy across environments with different styles is still a ...
arxiv  

Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/  in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
doaj   +1 more source

Fund family tournament and performance consequences: evidence from the UK fund industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
By applying tournament analysis to the UK Unit Trusts data, the results support significant risk shifting in the family tournament; i.e. interim winning managers tend to increase their level of risk exposure more than losing managers.
Zhang, Zhichao   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Code-Switching in the University Level Students of Bangladesh: An Empirical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The motto of this research article is to present how Bangladeshi University students use the mixture of both English and Bengali language as their spoken language.
Amin, Md Ruhul
core   +2 more sources

“That’s What It Felt Like, ‘You’re Pathetic’”: Creaky voice, Affective Stance, and Authentication in the Speech of Lady Gaga

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2017
This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
doaj   +1 more source

Cross-modal extinction in a boy with severely autistic behaviour and high verbal intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Anecdotal reports from individuals with autism suggest a loss of awareness to stimuli from one modality in the presence of stimuli from another. Here we document such a case in a detailed study of T.M., a 13-year-old boy with autism in whom significant ...
Adini, Y   +10 more
core   +1 more source

PromptStyler: Prompt-driven Style Generation for Source-free Domain Generalization [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
In a joint vision-language space, a text feature (e.g., from "a photo of a dog") could effectively represent its relevant image features (e.g., from dog photos). Also, a recent study has demonstrated the cross-modal transferability phenomenon of this joint space.
arxiv  

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