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Interaction between precious metals price and Islamic stock markets
No full textOriginality/value - The author would like to emphasize that this article is second to examine precious metals and Islamic stock markets in literature
Precious metals as the monetary phenomenon in the history
No full textThe bachelor thesis focuses on the history of the precious metals in monetary economics. Firstly, a function of the precious metals in monetary standard is introduced together with related prerequisities for an economic development. The thesis deals merely with monetary standards connected mainly with gold and silver. In the next part, a historical period between years 1944 -- 1976 concerning monetary standards is depicted and also this period is assessed from the economic point of view. The final part of the thesis analyses contemporary precious metal market. The author starts with a basic description of the precious metal market and also with its current tendencies and subsequently proceeds to a practical use of the analysis in creating appropriate investment strategy
Geology, alteration and precious metal reconnaissance of the Nogal Canyon area, San Mateo Mts., N.M.
No full text1984 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.The Nogal Canyon area lies within the southern San Mateo mountains and displays epithermal, volcanic hosted precious metal occurrences in the San Jose and Quartz Hill districts and in the Aragon Hill area. The San Mateos represent an isolated, north trending, eastward tilted, structural block located in the northeastern portion of the Cenozoic Mogollon-Datil volcanic field. Mid-Tertiary, calc-alkalic andesites to high silica rhyolites and minor volcaniclastics dominate the lithologies exposed in the Nogal Canyon area. The Oligocene Spears Formation, the oldest unit present, consists of andesitic to latitic flows, breccias, and ash-flow tuff and sporadic volcaniclastic sandstone. The Hells Mesa rhyolite ash-flow tuff overlies the Spears Formation and is sequentially superimposed by the Unit of Luna Park which includes andesitic flows, dacite flow breccias, rhyolite tuff, and minor volcaniclastics. The majority of the upper felsic sequence exposed in the southern San Mateos consists of the Oligocene Vicks Peak Tuff, a thick, densely to partially welded rhyolite ash-flow tuff, and the overlying Springtime Canyon Quartz Latite. Younger porphyritic rhyolite intrusives, rhyolite flow-dome rocks, and intrusive breccia appear localized along major structural trends within the southern foothills of the San Mateo mountains. Major northeast and northwest trending, steeply dipping, normal faults crosscut the Vicks Peak Tuff and host "fissure type" precious metal occurrences in the San Jose district. Structural preparation relates either to the proposed Nogal Canyon cauldron or to mid-late Tertiary regional extensional tectonism. Hydrothermal alteration effects contemporaneous with precious metal mineralization consist of pervasive and veinlet silicification, pervasive intermediate arqillic alteration, and quartz-alunite replacement alteration. Silica alteration is strongly localized along fracture and breccia zones consisting of vein-infillings, pervasive wall rock alteration, and quartz network-stockwork type occurrences. The gangue mineral assemblage accompanying vein-infilling silicification includes adularia, sericite, calcite, pyrolusite, and cryptomelane. Intermediate argillic alteration consists of montmorillonite, montmorillonite-illite mixed layer, illite, kaolinite, and pyrite systematically zoned as reaction aureoles about major structures. Argillic alteration broadens beneath the Vicks Peak Tuff-Springtime Canyon Quartz Latite contact which acted as a permeability barrier to ascending hydrothermal solutions. Quartz-alunite alteration occurs as a really restricted, pervasive replacement deposits with accessory pyrite, specularite, kaolinite, and chalcedony. Mineralization accompanying vein-related silicification consists of native silver, native gold, cerargyrite, and pyrite and appears modified by supergene oxidation processes. Trace element studies indicate the mineralization exhibits low arsenic and antimony signatures and lacks base metal introduction at present erosional levels. A single hydrothermal episode which generated structurally confined boiling appears responsible for the development of hypogene alteration and insignificant silver-gold mineralization centered over the Nogal Canyon area. Precious metal occurrences at Aragon Hill consist of gold bearing, quartz-calcite-barite fracture fillings crosscutting the Aragon Hill intrusive breccia. Pervasive phyllic alteration, contemporaneous with breccia emplacement, occurs throughout the pipe-like intrusive breccia and concentrically envelopes the surrounding rhyolite flow-dome rocks. Phyllic alteration consists of sericite, montmorillonite-chlorite mixed layer clay, quartz, pyrite, and kaolinite products. The precious metal bearing fracture fillings probably represent leaching and minor metal deposition during the late waning stages of breccia emplacement, or possibly high level expression of epigenetic breccia-hosted silver-gold mineralization at depth
Precious metals as the monetary phenomenon in the history
No full textBakalářská práce upíná svoji pozornost na historii drahých kovů v peněžní ekonomii. Nejdříve je popsána jejich funkce v roli peněžních standardů a s tím související podmínky a předpoklady ekonomického vývoje. V rámci této práce jsou popsány a z ekonomického hlediska hodnoceny peněžní standardy spojené výlučně se zlatem a stříbrem. V další části je vykresleno období mezi lety 1944 - 1976 spojené s významnou rolí drahých kovů a hlavní prostor je zde věnován kritickému zhodnocení tehdejšího měnového systému. Poslední oddíl je zaměřen na analýzu trhů drahých kovů v současnosti, kde autor postupuje od popisu základních charakteristik a tendencí trhů zlata, stříbra a dalších kovů směrem k praktickému využití daných informací v rámci investičního rozhodování.The bachelor thesis focuses on the history of the precious metals in monetary economics. Firstly, a function of the precious metals in monetary standard is introduced together with related prerequisities for an economic development. The thesis deals merely with monetary standards connected mainly with gold and silver. In the next part, a historical period between years 1944 -- 1976 concerning monetary standards is depicted and also this period is assessed from the economic point of view. The final part of the thesis analyses contemporary precious metal market. The author starts with a basic description of the precious metal market and also with its current tendencies and subsequently proceeds to a practical use of the analysis in creating appropriate investment strategy
Information - how it gets precious?
No full textIn our Age of Information the term Information is one of the most used words. Some Information Scientists tried to find a common definition. PLOCHBERGER Franz (2012) tried to fix it in his "Information scientific Axioms". He used terms of Wolfgang HOFKIRCHNER or Raphael CAPURRO.
The author started a new research impact: „IT-Orientation towards Human Being". The aim of this research is to find out significant terms and to evaluate a scientifically usable paradigm under this surrounding topic. The orientation on human needs is necessary, because we have to make a difference between human cognitive information evolution (technological) and human biological evolution as species, which is much more slowly.
In chapter 4 human abilities to manage Information will be showed. In the chapters 5 and 6 the author tries to find topics and permanent valid Information scientific terms for the usage of Information in a precious way for human beings in future (e.g. in a rising amount of Data (Big Data) or moving Data with electronically speed on worldwide spread networks).
Information Science is not a narrow science; it touches Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Economy and System Sciences. These sciences contain all interesting theories.
The actual trend is that the changing’s of new Information-instruments (Desktop, Laptop, Smartphone or Mobile Touch Screens) seem to fascinate and stimulate customers. If we don't try to find scientific backgrounds we get in dependence of some worldwide single IT-companies with commercial interests only.
We have to ask: Do we know already the most important values in Information Science for future? Is it sure that IT-Orientation towards Human Being is able to surround the most precious parts of Information Science and to set definitive orientation points towards the human being? The orientation towards human being has borders – by human being. But no restrictions are definable in complexity towards the machine side
Dynamic risk spillovers and portfolio risk management between precious metals and global foreign exchange markets
No full textThis study examines portfolio management and risk spillovers between four major precious metals (gold, silver, palladium and platinum) and 20 important U.S. exchange markets. To this end, we employ the multivariate DECO-GARCH model and the spillover index developed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2014, 2016) to examine the spillovers between those metal prices and the exchange rates and design portfolios and hedging strategies using different risk measures. The results show evidence of weak average conditional equicorrelations among the considered markets over time, excluding the turbulent 2008–2010 period. Furthermore, the precious metals (excluding platinum) and the currencies (with the exception of the Australian, Brazilian, Denmark, Euro, Mexican, Norwegian, New Zealand and Swedish currencies) are net receivers of shocks. Finally, the four precious metals provide strong risk and downside risk reductions, underscoring the usefulness of including precious metals in a traditional foreign exchange-dominated portfolio.The fourth author (Alanoud Ali S A Al-Maadid) acknowledges the financial support by Qatar University internal research grant [QUCP-CBE-2018-1]. The last author (Sang Hoon Kang) acknowledges the financial support by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017S1A5B8057488)
'The Cloud of Unknowing': its inheritance and its inheritors
No full textThe thesis attempts a portrait of The Cloud in the context of its
position in the history of Christian mysticism. That the
anonymous work owed much to spiritual writers of the preceding
twelve hundred years is not debatable; what it owed maybe
slightly less obvious. The Cloud is essentially a work of
Dionysian mysticism, and various writers within that tradition
who may have influenced or affected the teaching of The Cloud are
examined. At the same time, however, the anonymous writer owes
much to the western tradition of Augustinian theology, and the
role of this, complementary to the Dionysian mysticism, is also
considered. In Chapter II we look at the theological doctrine
underlying the mystical doctrine of the Cloud corpus. Chapter
III has two major parts, both concerned with the influence of
The Cloud on the subsequent development of spiritual writing in
England. The first considers the relationship with Walter
Hilton. The second examines aspects of Puritan thought which may
indicate that the influence of The Cloud, after the Reformation,
was not restricted to Catholic thought
Regarding Lady Precious Stream: a theatrical translation
No full textThe chapter considers Lady Precious Stream (1934), S. I. Hsiung’s “Chinese play in English,” as a work of literary translation. It investigates how a modern Chinese text (in this case a traditional play as it was performed in Republican China) was successfully adapted for performance, initially on the London stage in the 1930s and then throughout the Anglophone world and beyond, for much of the 20th century. Lady Precious Stream remains unchallenged as “the most globally successful Chinese play.” What is the secret of its success? The chapter argues that the background of the author, Xiong Shiyi (1902–91), as a translator of modern British drama for the Chinese stage, is one factor in sensitizing him to the possibility of adapting a work from one theatrical tradition to the conventions of another: Chinese into English. It also argues that the timing of the work’s appearance in the context of the Sino-Japanese war is relevant to its reception. A case study of its performance history in Australia supports this. An examination of changes from the reading edition to the acting edition shows adaptation in form, verbal texture, characterization and theme. The work’s success in its time is matched by renewed scholarly interest in recent years. The chapter draws on this recent work, bringing insights from translation studies and transcultural literary studies together with biography, literary analysis and reception history to reconsider an exceptional cross-cultural achievement. The argument concludes with the suggestion that the highly effective and still relevant larger theme of Lady Precious Stream is mutual misperception.Nicholas Jos
Investing in Precious Metals, Investment Dynamics of World's Economics; Advantages and disadvantages
No full textBakalaura darba mērķis ir analizēt investīciju dārgmetālus, to dinamiku, priekšrocības un trūkumus pasaules ekonomikā un izstrādāt pamatotus priekšlikumus tirgus dalībniekiem, kas atklāj dārgmetālu ieguldījumu izvēli investīciju aktīvos. Pēc investīciju un dārgmetālu jēdzienu teorētiskas apskates 1. nodaļā, turpmāk tika apskatīta un analizēta četru dārgmetālu (zelta, sudraba, platīna un pallādija) cenu dinamika, to pieprasījuma un piedāvājuma izmaiņas pasaules ekonomikā. Papildus otrās nodaļas ietvaros tika veikta dārgmetālu cenu savstarpējās korelācijas pārbaude, kas atklāja zelta un sudraba cenu sakarību. Galvenie darbā izstrādātie secinājumi un priekšlikumi saistīti ar sudraba, platīna un pallādija iespējamo cenu izaugsmi ilgtermiņā. Ieguldījumi zeltā tiek uzskatīti par izdevīgu īstermiņa investīciju risinājumu.The aim of the Bachelor Paper is to analyze precious metals as investment, their dynamics, strengths and weaknesses in the global economy and give recommendations for market participants revealing the contribution of precious metals to the choice of investment assets. Chapter 1 provides a theoretical review of the concept “precious metals” and “investment” which is followed by the analysis of four precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium), their price dynamics, the analysis of the supply and demand changes in the global economy. In Chapter 2 the author describes a price correlation testing among precious metals that discovers the gold and silver price relationship. The main conclusions and recommendations of the Bachelor Paper are related to silver, platinum and palladium price possible long-term growth
Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie
No full textOn 27 November 1934, ‘a traditional Chinese play’, Lady Precious Stream premiered at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi off the Strand. Within months, its author, Shih-I Hsiung, an unknown student from China, was hurled into worldwide fame. Lady Precious Stream ran for three years in London, vying in 1936 with Michael Egan’s The Dominant Sex as the longest running play. It was attended by powerful figures in British society including the Queen and successive prime ministers and critically acclaimed by J.B. Priestley and H.G. Wells, while George Bernard Shaw and Sir Barry Jackson selected it for the Malvern Theatre Festival. While there had been plays ‘done in the Chinese manner’ such as The Yellow Jacket(1913) and The Circle of Chalk (1929) on the English stage before, Lady Precious Stream was the first written by a Chinese playwright. It played a major role in reviving the fashion for ‘all things Chinese’ in the 1930s and contributed to the unprecedented success of the International Chinese Exhibition of Art at the Royal Academy in 1935. This chapter examines the success of Lady Precious Stream in the context of British chinoserie fashions in the first decades of the twentieth century. This at once comprised a fascination with ‘China’ among the social, intellectual and artistic elite, and the more denigrated vogue for mass-marketed ‘Chinese’ exotica among the wider public. In achieving both critical and popular acclaim, Lady Precious Stream highlights the connections between the two, and demands an acknowledgement of chinoiserie’s darker side
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