Risk and Return Performance Attribution for Cross Border Investment Portfolio

Should currency be treated as a separate asset class? If currency hedging adds value to a portfolio, how should this be done

This is How it is

We lived in the house now for only three months but already the children come. We are careful, living in India, because we are not prepared to battle the diseases strange to our bodies and so we must sometimes inhibit our love for the children until we are stronger. We are strangers to the country but not to the hunger and yearning on the faces of the children. The children are all from one family, and our favorite is the wild little five-year-old girl named Sakri. But aside from this slight preference we laugh and run with her two older brothers, Ramchander and Deysha, and the older and beautiful sister, Mutelly. The tiny baby, Thumpully, doesn\u27t count but only bounces along first on one hip, and then another. This is a family of Untouchables and although the constitution makes them equals the Laws of the Heart do not as yet

Insertion loss of a simple plywood noise enclosure

Noise enclosures are used to reduce noise exposures to the employee. Some problems with commercial noise enclosures is they tend to be expensive and often provide much more insertion loss (IL) than is truly needed. The two studies described here tested the effectiveness of a simple plywood noise enclosure with a size of 75 cm x 75 cm x 75 cm. To determine the IL of the enclosure an OROS OR 38 noise analyzer was used in conjunction with eight PCB piezotronic microphones located at four and eight feet from the source perpendicular to each vertical side of the enclosure.;Study One tested the effects of insulation coverage (Insulation), measurement distance from sound source (Distance), and direction in the horizontal plane (Microphone Location) on the IL of the enclosure when there were no holes in the enclosure. The results of Study One showed that the bare enclosure (0% insulation) provided a 6.9 dBA average IL. When the inner surfaces of the enclosure were covered with 50% and 83% of Insulation coverage, the IL values were 10.2 and 11.0 dBA, respectively.;Study Two tested the conditions listed in Study One as well as the effects of adding Hole Diameters of 2 and 4 at different times. It also included rotating the enclosure so the Hole Direction was either facing 0° or 180° from the original orientation. The results of Study Two showed that the average IL of the enclosure was reduced by 0.8 dBA when there was a 2 hole in the enclosure and by 1.7 dBA when there was a 4 hole in the enclosure.;The most important conclusion reached from the two studies was a simple noise enclosure can be constructed of plywood and it will be effective to some degree even if there all holes in it. The minimum IL this enclosure produced was 5.3 dBA when there was a 4 hole in one side. In many cases this would be sufficient enough to reduce a company underneath regulatory standards

Anatomy of extreme events in a complex adaptive system

We provide an analytic, microscopic analysis of extreme events in an adaptive population comprising competing agents (e.g. species, cells, traders, data-packets). Such large changes tend to dictate the long-term dynamical behaviour of many real-world systems in both the natural and social sciences. Our results reveal a taxonomy of extreme events, and provide a microscopic understanding as to their build-up and likely duration.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Now with Postscript figure

Alien Registration- Lamper, Mildred G. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Uncovering the Past Landscape of Central New Hampshire: Accuracy Assessment for Identifying Stonewalls Using LiDAR-derived Products

Revealing a landscape’s manmade history can be difficult if only satellite or aerial imagery is available. With the advent of LiDAR, changes along the bare-earth can easily be seen and further teased apart. LiDAR-derived products can be utilized to successfully identify historical resources found along the landscape, such as stonewalls. Common approaches include creating various terrain products from LiDAR-derived digital elevation models (DEMs), such as hillshade and slope, that are used as visualization tools. It is important to evaluate the accuracy of digitizing historical resources through field sampling. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the effectiveness of the most common LiDAR-derived visualization products in accurately identifying stonewalls within a study area located in the White Mountain National Forest, NH. Line-transect sampling was used to develop a field accuracy assessment of both the presence and absence of said digitized stonewalls. This field approach will be essential for standardizing statewide and regional digitizing efforts of historical resources with the newly available New Hampshire LiDAR data