How Informative Is Floating NAV When Securities Trade Infrequently?

We examine if a floating net asset value (NAV) increases the transparency of risk for investors. Using closed-income fixed income funds we find little evidence that a floating NAV helps investors better understand the value and risk of a fund when a fund\u27s assets trade infrequently. This potentially informs the debate regarding the adoption of a floating NAV in the money market industry. Our results suggest that it is unlikely that the benefits of floating NAV will outweigh the costs

The Rhenish Chronicles and Christian Martyr Philosophy: Jewish Origins and Cultural Re-Appropriation

The Christian religion was founded on a tradition of self-sacrifice, a custom sparked by the crucifixion of Jesus himself. As the Christian faith evolved and expanded throughout late antiquity and the Middle Ages it consistently maintained this emphasis; devotion through self-denial has been a foundational pillar of popular Christian thought from the early evangelists to the late Medieval era. Within this vein of Christian morality Martyrdom, that is the practice of self-sacrifice, or more specifically the sacrifice of the body in the name of the divine, has held a position of undisputed prestige. With the rise of Christian power in the Western world, and the subsequent dominance of Christian culture over non-Christian European minorities, the Christian tradition of self-immolation was given a unique opportunity to influence thought beyond the peripheries of its own religious community. This potential for influence was especially relevant for the Western European Jewish community. This was a culture surrounded, governed, and exposed to Christian secular authority and religious theology from late antiquity onward. Some of the clearest examples of how Christian cultural influences effected European Jews can be found in periods of high inter-religious tension. In the year 1096, the initial expedition of the First Crusade, aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem from Islamic rule, moved across the German Rhineland. Here the Crusading host unleashed its religious fervor on the Jewish community, massacring or forcibly converting Jews in settlements from the northern Rhine River all the way down to the Danube. In the wake of this devastation, Jewish writers in the Rhineland began composing venerative chronicles. These recounted the persecution and the plight of the Rhenish victims and, important for the purposes of this analysis, praised those who died rather than convert as martyrs. What role might the cultural influences of Christian martyr tradition have played in the way the Rhenish Chroniclers portrayed the Rhineland persecutions? It is this question that prompts the following investigation

An analysis of the vocational choices of marines who were released to inactive duty at the marine barracks, U.S. Naval Base, Boston, Massachusetts, during the period October 1957 to December 1957 and February 1958 to April 1958

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Performance parameters of low-density ammonium nitrate base explosives; experimental results and J. Taylor\u27s method

Ammonium nitrate has been known to the explosive industry for a long time. Compelled by the ever increasing mining costs, in 1954 Akremite was introduced to the market. It is a simple carbonaceous ammonium nitrate mixture and is the cheapest explosive available to the open-pit operators. During the following years considerable amount of research was done, resulting among others with the introduction of ammonium nitrate-hydrocarbon mixtures as an explosive. During the Second World War research was done toward the refinement of the hydrodynamic theory. Several methods of calculating the detonation velocities of the explosives were introduced: Brown (1942), Kistiakowski and Wilson (1942), and Brinkley and Wilson (1943). During the post-war period two more methods were introduced, namely by Cook (1947-8) and by Taylor and Patterson (1949). This thesis concerns mainly with the behavior of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil No. 2 mixture. The Taylor\u27s method has been chosen to check the experimental data. Experiments were performed during the period July - November 1957 --Introduction, page 1

Investigation of effects of ablative discrepancies on nozzle performance reliability Final report

Effects of ablative discrepancies on nozzle performance reliabilit

“Appropriateness” in foreign language acquisition and use: some theoretical, methodological and ethical considerations

In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emic perspective, I investigate multilinguals’ perceptions of appropriateness in their foreign languages. Referring to the existing literature, and using previously unpublished material collected through a web questionnaire (Dewaele and Pavlenko 2001–2003), I will show that multilinguals develop their judgements of appropriateness, a crucial aspect of sociopragmatic and sociocultural competence, as part of their socialisation in a new language/culture. However, their ability to judge appropriateness accurately does not imply that they will always act “appropriately”. Indeed, the presence of conflicting norms in their other languages may contribute to conscious or unconscious divergence from the “appropriate” norm in a particular language. Some implications for foreign language teaching will be considered

One-eyed pinhead regulates cell motility independent of Squint/Cyclops signaling

AbstractIn vertebrates, EGF-CFC factors are essential for Nodal signaling. Here, we show that the zygotic function of one-eyed pinhead, the zebrafish EGF-CFC factor, is necessary for cell movement throughout the blastoderm of the early embryo. During the blastula and gastrula stages, mutant cells are more cohesive and migrate slower than wild-type cells. Chimeric analysis reveals that these early motility defects are cell-autonomous; later, one-eyed pinhead mutant cells have a cell-autonomous tendency to acquire ectodermal rather than mesendodermal fates. Moreover, wild-type cells transplanted into the axial region of mutant hosts tend to form isolated aggregates of notochord tissue adjacent to the mutant notochord. Upon misexpressing the Nodal-like ligand Activin in whole embryos, which rescues aspects of the mutant phenotype, cell behavior retains the one-eyed pinhead motility phenotype. However, in squint;cyclops double mutants, which lack Nodal function and possess a more severe phenotype than zygotic one-eyed pinhead mutants, cells of the dorsal margin exhibit a marked tendency to widely disperse rather than cohere together. Elsewhere in the double mutants, for cells of the blastoderm and for rare cells of the gastrula that involute into the hypoblast, motility appears wild-type. Notably, cells at the animal pole, which are not under direct regulation by the Nodal pathway, behave normal in squint;cyclops mutants but exhibit defective motility in one-eyed pinhead mutants. We conclude that, in addition to a role in Nodal signaling, One-eyed pinhead is required for aspects of cell movement, possibly by regulating cell adhesion

Pemanfaatan Software Akuntansi pada Akuisisi Pengetahuan Akuntansi Mahasiswa

The background of this research is to test the use of software accounting in the acquisition of student accounting knowledge. The method used in this research is laboratory experiments with instruments in the form of a questionnaire given directly to respondents after solving accounting cases manually and using software accounting. The data analysis tool used in this study was SPSS. The results of the problems examined in this study are, first, solving accounting cases manually, then solving the same cases using software accounting does not increase student accounting knowledge acquisition. The second result is that there is no significant difference in the acquisition of student accounting knowledge between the manual approach and software accounting in solving accounting cases. The last result is that there is no significant difference in acquiring accounting knowledge between male and female students in using software accounting. The conclusion and implication of this research are to be able to master and benefit from technology. In this case, accounting technology, students must understand and be familiar with using this technology. Students will be aware of the importance of technology in the world of this 4.0 industrial revolution