535 research outputs found
Making sense of health education in the Solomon Islands.
No full textThis article explores both the process and outcomes of a working Partnership between Solomon Islands College for Higher Education and the University of Waikato that explored the development of the initial teacher education health education courses. Through a process of co-construction and inquiry, teacher educators from the Solomon Islands and New Zealand developed a metaphorical context-specific model to represent understandings of health education in the Solomon Islands. The model and what this has meant for teaching and learning in health education at both SOE and in schools is examined
REPRESENTASI PERAN IBU SINGLE PARENT DALAM AKUN INSTAGRAM AYU TINGTING (@ayutingting92)
No full textInstagram is one social media to express themselves as well as the media for the exchange of information. With Instagram, single parent mother can freely express her activities with her child. It is seen from celebrity Ayu TingTing (@ayutingting92) who participate and share their daily activities so that she has the most followers all over Indonesia. By making herself have the most followers make writers want to know how Ayu represents the role of single parent mother in educating and protecting her child. The author analyzes through candid photographs of Ayu TingTing with her daughter who goes into educational and protective classification using Charles Sanders Pierce's semiotics and divides them into icons, indexes, symbols. To strengthen photo analysis the author uses non verbal communication theory and interpersonal. The results showed that Ayu TingTing represented the educating role with the fun of playing while learning where she was the teacher for her daughter. While in the role of protecting, Ayu represent it with a touch to keep her child's health and keep from accident
Lessons From Hospitality: Towards A Hybrid Model Of Senior Living Communities
No full textOld age gets most of us, and how we spend it should be meaningful. The hospitality sector could play a vital role in this regard. Senior living communities are big business in the U.S., but they face demands from residents, and the family and friends who visit them, for more than the traditional focus on healthcare. UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management researchers, Dr. YunYing Zhong, Dr. Tingting Zhang, and their co-author understand the connection between the senior living community and hospitality sectors; their research is giving impetus to a hybrid model that could benefit both
The Effect of Risk on Investment: New Evidence
No full textPrevious results on the relation between risk and investment are mixed, partly due to endogeneity. To allievate the effects of this bias, we adopt a generalized method of moments (GMM) dynamic panel estimator to investigate the relation. We find that the puzzling positive sensitivity of investment (i.e. firm’s investment rate) to systematic risk as frequently documented in previous studies disappears. Further, we show that the more irreversible the firm’s investments are, the more valuable is the option to delay investment when risk is high, which supports the model with irreversible investment
Acidity and proton affinity measurement of cytosine by multiple methods in the gas phase
No full textThe measurement of the intrinsic acidity of nucleic bases is essential for understanding the fundamental properties in biological systems. The Hydrogen bonding is critical to DNA stability and reactivity of oligonucleotides. The strength of hydrogen bonding can be gauged by the intrinsic acidity of the donor NH groups and the intrinsic basicity of acceptor atoms. Acidity is also indicative of the leaving group ability of a nucleobase in deglycosylation processes.
In this dissertation, we examine the gas phase acidity and proton affinity of cytosine using Fourior transform mass spectrometry (FTMS), liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS) and ab initio calculations at B3LYP/6-31+G*. The experimental gas phase acidities and proton affinities were established using bracketing method, equilibrium method and Cooks kinetic method. Finally, we discuss the tautomer problem and deuterated experiments and the possible mechanism of the base excision repair by TDG enzyme.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-28)
Exploring a new technique to determine the optimal real estate portfolio allocation
No full textThesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Page 53 blank. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 52).Modern Portfolio Theory has been developed over the last fifty years, and there are several studies linking Modern Portfolio Theory with the allocation of real estate property in multi-asset portfolios. However, in reality, most real estate fund managers don't use MPT as a guideline when they are structuring a portfolio and deploying allocation strategy for a real estate fund. The main reason for this gap between theory and reality is that the traditional mean-variance approach of MPT requires accurate data of variances, covariance and expected return over the long term; and those data are quite difficult to collect on an ad hoc base. This Thesis applies a new technique to examine property asset allocation strategies and improve the performance of a real estate investment sample portfolio in the US. We straight-model the portfolio weight in each property type of asset as a function of the asset's characteristics: either physical attributes such as property size, vacancy rate, property type, location etc.; or financial attributes such as Cap Rate. The coefficients of this function are found by optimizing the investor's average utility of the portfolio's return over a certain period of years. The aim of this approach is to find a simple and easily modified methodology for real estate portfolio managers when they are deciding on acquisitions and making portfolio policies. In general, this Thesis aims to apply the new technique to help practitioners and other researchers improve the practical implementation of optimal portfolio policies.by Tingting Fu.S.M. in Real Estate Developmen
ASYMMETRIC PRICING AND AIRLINE PERFORMANCE
No full textWe study the relation of asymmetric pricing with operating performance and stock returns of U.S. airlines. We construct two proxies to measure the degree of asymmetric pricing: Degree of Asymmetry (DOA) and Peer-adjusted DOA, and then simultaneously test how the direction and magnitude of asymmetric pricing affect airline performance. We find that raising air ticket price, regardless of whether the fuel cost is increasing or decreasing, is associated with significantly higher sales growth and stock returns than reducing price in the same scenario. However, raising price above industry peers is two-edged: it may increase profit margin, but at the cost of a slowdown in sales growth
Comparing E. coli mono-cultures and co-cultures for biosynthesis of protocatechuic acid and hydroquinone
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