The restructuring of the institutional real estate portfolio in the UK

Real estate investment portfolios of financial institutions have seen dramatic changes over the last three decades or more. Historically such property investment decisions have been seen within a portfolio diversification paradigm that has sought to balance risk and return. This paper considers the role of the supply of assets in the determining and constraining the UK institutional portfolio. The supply of real estate assets not only expands during property booms but has also been transformed by a long term urban development cycle as cities adapt to cars and the ICT revolution that has brought new property forms. The research examines long term trends in investment change by disaggregating into ten property forms rather than the usual three land use sectors. It then assesses to what extent investment patterns can be explained in terms of portfolio theory, short term net returns of individual sectors or driven by the supply of real estate assets. It concludes that the supply of real assets is an overlooked explanation

Quest for Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910)

The United States and Germany experienced difficulties beyond imperial ist competition during the final years of the nineteenth century. Tariff wars, naval growth, and the Anglo-American rapprochement only added to the German-American rivalry rooted in imperialism

Museum Visits in Social Studies: The Role of a Methods Course

Museum visits provide opportunities for students to learn content in engaging and interactive ways. In social studies, museums may be spaces where students can increase their historical and civic understanding through exposure to artifacts and narratives unavailable in classrooms. Yet, research suggests teachers are insufficiently prepared to integrate museum visits into classroom curriculum effectively. In this project, the instructors of the two secondary social studies methods course sections organized a visit to a natural history museum. The instructors modeled pre- and post-visit lesson activities during class and provided a guide for pre-service teachers to complete during their museum visit. While pre-service teachers reported they better understood the importance of connecting museum visits to classroom curriculum, they also raised questions about how methods course faculty might introduce pre-service teachers to museum visits. This article discusses what was learned during the project, as well as approaches social studies methods course instructors might reflect upon when considering museum visits as a component of social studies teacher education.</jats:p

The geology of a portion of the San Jose Hills

The area discussed in this report, consisting of sixteen square miles, embraces a portion of the San Jose Hills approximately three miles south of the town of Covina, Los Angeles County, California. The area was mapped on a base map prepared from U. S. Geological Survey topographic maps, and the Brunton compass-pacing method of mapping was used. The region is part of an upland that rises above the Los Angeles and San Gabriel basins, and consists of a group of rolling hills trending in an approximate east-west direction. The relief throughout the region is moderate, and as a result of the semi-arid climate vegetation in the area is sparse. Bedrock is well exposed, excepting in some of the areas underlain by shale, where slumping has distorted the rocks and soils and a dense grass growth further hinder exposure of the underlying formations. All of the rocks exposed in the area are of sedimentary origin, and, with the exception of Recent and Pleistocene alluvium, are part of the Puente formation of upper Miocene age. The Puente formation is divided into three members--a lower member of shale, a middle member of sandstone and conglomerate, and an upper member of shale, sandstone, and conglomerate. The subsurface rocks, knowledge of which has been derived from wells drilled in the area, consist of the Topanga formation, the Glendora volcanics, the Mountain Meadows dacite porphyry, and the basement complex in that order with increasing depth. There appear to have been two major periods of deformation in the San Jose Hills area during Tertiary time--one at the close of the Pliocene and one during and after the deposition of the Miocene Puente formation. The Puente deformation seems to have involved only gentle folding, but the post-Pliocene deformation was more severe, involving steep folding and some faulting. The general structural trend of the region is approximately N 60 E, and is parallel to the boundaries of the higher hills. Folding in the area has created a series of parallel anticlines and synclines, with the San Jose anticline in the northern half of the area being the major structure. The one fault of any magnitude in the area is the San Jose fault, which enters from the east and apparently dies out in the central part of the area. It is a vertical or steeply dipping reverse fault with considerable downthrow on the south side. There are other smaller faults in the southern half of the area. The geologic history of the region largely involves erosion after the intrusion of the basement complex in Mesozoic time until the Miocene period, when the area became one of deposition. The Glendora volcanics were deposited in early middle Miocene time, followed by submergence of the area and deposition of the Topanga, Puente, and Pliocene formations. After the close of the Pliocene the region emerged from beneath the sea and again became an area of erosion

A study of successive discriminations of brightness in chicks

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Psychology, 1930