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The Hong Kong stock index futures marketWan, Hon-kuen, Francis., 溫漢權. January 1987 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Business Administration / Master / Master of Business Administration
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Secular change in BMI from 1974 to 2000 in Swedish childrenTsang, Chi-chung., 曾志聰. January 2005 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences
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Development of an index to rate the completeness and quality of mitigation project definitionMuramatsu, Tadahisa 02 November 2010 (has links)
In the summer of 2008, two hurricanes made landfall along the Texas coast causing
billions of dollars in damage. Texas received presidential disaster declarations, which
resulted in the state receiving over $350 million in hazard mitigation funds. Over 500
requests for mitigation projects were submitted to the government from communities
impacted. Not all requested projects could be funded. As a result, those communities that
submitted requests for well-defined mitigation projects were the primary beneficiaries of
the federal mitigation funds. To better understand the factors that characterize a “welldefined”
mitigation project, this study developed an index to rate the completeness and
quality of mitigation project definitions. The study incorporated concepts from research
on quality community planning and from project definition rating methods. The rating
tool consists of detailed descriptions of the project scope elements along with a scoring
method for the completeness and quality of the project’s definition. The rating tool and
the detailed descriptions help to develop a “well-defined” mitigation project definition as
well as to evaluate it. / text
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Testing the pricing and informational efficiency of the S&P 500 stock index futures market.Hassan, Mahamood Mahomed. January 1989 (has links)
Three empirical studies are conducted examining the efficiency of S&P 500 futures prices and the pricing of these futures contracts. In the first study, the ability of futures prices to predict the realized spot S&P 500 index prices on the expiration date is examined for near term contracts. The futures prices are found to be unbiased predictors of the realized spot index prices for the nineteen quarterly contracts from 1982 to 1986. Previous studies report significant deviations in S&P SOO futures prices from theoretically determined Cost of Carry Model (CCM) prices. In the second study, it is found that the CCM using the federal funds rate, a proxy for the overnight repurchase rate, provides relatively better estimates of the S&P S(x) futures prices over the 1984-1986 period. The futures mispricing also reflects the weekend effect anomaly: futures prices are "over-priced" relative to CCM prices on Mondays, whereas the opposite occurs on Fridays. The futures over-pricing (under-pricing) is characterized by "bull" ("bear") financial markets and the extent of price changes are relatively greater in the futures market. The futures under-pricing is supported by strong future market volume and open-interest positions. The basis and changes in it over the futures contract period are measures of how well integrated the futures market and the underlying spot market are. In the third study, based on daily closing prices for the S&P 500 index and index futures for the 1984-1986 period, it is found that the basis decreases over the contract period but the rate of decrease is independent of the time to expiration. The change in basis on Mondays is generally positive which also reflects the weekend effect anomaly. The daily basis is negative on 107 days, which generally occurs during strong futures market trading volume and open interest positions. It is doubtful whether the negative basis can be attributed to a negative net financing cost, where the dividend yield 0.1 the spot index exceeds the cost of financing the spot index forward.
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Anthropometry, morbidity and mortality in rural SarawakDuffield, Arabella Elizabeth January 1999 (has links)
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Availability of Information for Dosing Injectable Medications in Underweight and Obese PatientsJacques, Kimberly January 2010 (has links)
Class of 2010 Abstract / OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the product information and pivotal studies of injectable medications to determine if a specific size descriptor was included and if information was provided for dosing patients with extremes of body weight (body mass index < 18.5 or > 40 kg/m2).
METHODS: This is a descriptive study of medications that received an approved new drug application (NDA) by the FDA between 1 January 2004 and 30 January 2009. Any information related to size descriptors, or dosing of patients with extremes of weight, was extracted and evaluated with a dosing usefulness score that ranged from a low of 0 to a high of 3. A score of 2 or greater was considered at least minimally adequate for dosing patients with extremes of weight.
RESULTS: Of the 84 medications evaluated, some reference to weight descriptors was found for 23 (27%). None of the medications had information that generated a usefulness score of 2 or greater.
CONCLUSIONS: The product information and pivotal studies involving newly approved medications is inadequate for dosing patients with extremes of weight and further research is needed. The FDA should mandate that product information contain the size descriptor and extremes of body weight relative to age and height that were used to develop dosing recommendations.
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A subject analysis and index to Ebony, 1945-1955Patterson, Thelma 01 August 1960 (has links)
No description available.
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Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) blubber cortisol concentration as an indication of chronic stressAnderson, Randi 27 September 2016 (has links)
Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in the Canadian Arctic are subject to a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors that stand to potentially compromise population health and survival. Typically, animals exposed to chronic stressors initiate a stress response resulting in cortisol production, which results in physiological and behavioural changes designed to maintain homeostasis under the influence of the stressor. Cortisol extraction techniques were developed for Ringed seal blubber and fur samples. Blubber cortisol was found to be a reliable indicator of the condition factor ratio of blubber depth to core diameter. Ringed seal blubber cortisol concentration and condition was shown to alter depending on season and age class. The findings of this study are an important first step in developing an understanding of how this ice obligate species has and may respond to environmental stressors and will assist with developing conservation strategies. / October 2016
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Evaluating How Representative Simple Multiscalar Drought Indices Are of Modeled Soil Moisture Across the Desert Southwest United StatesMcKellar, Trevor T., McKellar, Trevor T. January 2017 (has links)
Drought indices based on monthly precipitation and sometimes temperature are widely used due to their simple calculation with readily available climate data. The portrayal of drought through simple precipitation anomalies or water balances when accounting for temperature may not capture the potentially complex evolution of drought events due to the timing, intensity, and frequency of precipitation events at the daily scale. In this study, we present a new drought index that incorporates a deterministic soil model, HYDRUS-1D, and daily climate data to assess how representative simple drought indices are of soil moisture status in the Southwest. Specifically, we compare our drought index with two widely used drought indices: the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardized Perception-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). Modeled soil moisture output was summed into monthly values for direct comparison between indices. SPI and SPEI proved to be representative of soil moisture status at shallow depths, correlating best at a two-month window. SPI correlated higher with our modeled drought index than SPEI in shallow settings across all study sites. Intense drought events were controlled by the magnitude and frequency of precipitation, with large events creating water surplus and then a slow decay in soil moisture until the next large event. Furthermore, heat map correlations indicate that monitoring drought at depth is dependent upon the previous years monsoon, with the best correlating window growing with distance from monsoon onset. Modeled soil moisture showed volumetric water content increased during monsoon season and remained high through the fall and into the winter months. Higher moisture content increased hydraulic conductivity, priming the soil profile for winter recharge. We believe that the addition of a soil physics based drought index greatly improves drought monitoring conditions for the southwest.
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The Validity of the Texas Economic IndexSimpson, Edgar Randell 01 1900 (has links)
Since the economic index is one of the two instruments which are so important to the financing of every school district of the state, and since the index is a hypothetical measure, it should be studied at regular intervals. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to re-examine the economic index used in Texas school finance for the purpose of determining its validity.
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