Essays on Convex

Yale University Investments Office: February 2011

David Swensen definition of efficient markets hypothesis: A financial market is (informationally) efficient when market prices reflect all available information about value. From the case study it can be said that Swensen believed in market timing in markets for stocks, bonds, private equity, real estates, oil and gas. Features of private equity markets that make market timing difficult are valuation, performance, regulation and the ongoing volatility and uncertainty in global markets. Based on the case analysis David Swensen would pick on option two that is a fund managed by energy industry experts with engineering undergraduate degrees from prominent state ...

Venn diagram

Venn diagrams graphical expressions used to show the relationship between two or more different sets of groups (Edwards, 2004). They show the logical relations among different sets indicating their similarities and differences (Edwards, 2004). For instance, if a class has 40 students with 25 students taking Accounting and 30 students taking Mathematics while five students are taking both Mathematics and Accounting, Venn diagrams can be used to show graphically the number of students taking each subject only as well those taking both subjects. In her article, Amy Myers articulate that Venn diagrams are not limited to three or fewer ...

Introduction

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inheritable and neurodegenerative disease. It is characterized by progressive psychiatric, cognitive, and motor symptoms. It is significant to familiarize with the phenotypes since patients can present with one or more symptoms of the disease. Loss of balance and chorea are the first symptoms recognized by the patients. However, the families always notice personality or cognitive changes before first symptoms. The disease is most common in races from northern Europe. This paper is set to discuss the etiology and risk factors, pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, complications, as well as diagnosis of Huntington’s disease.

Etiology and Risk Factors

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Introduction

The production line refers to a set of sequential operations launched in a factory whereby the raw materials are passed via the refining process to produce tissue that is suitable to be used in institutions, households, and industries. The article by Ishakawa and Hirasawa (2012) describes how printing and aqueous lotion chemicals can be applied to improve the quality of tissue papers. Furthermore, the article by Abdulmalek and Rajgopal (2007) look deep on the benefits accrued from lean manufacturing and how they can benefit manufacturing companies. The paper will comprehensively address the production line, its ways, and advantages as ...

Ishtar Gate was built in Babylon in 575 BC, during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and is a great arch of bricks, covered with bright blue enamel. Arch walls are decorated with sacred animals, dragons and bulls, which the Babylonians considered satellites of the gods. Fragments of the gate are now in various museums around the world: in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, the Louvre, in New York, Chicago; in Boston reliefs of lions, dragons and bulls are stored; in Detroit, at the Museum of Fine Arts, relief of sirrush is stored. A copy of the Ishtar Gate in Iraq is ...

Abstract

In this overview of the study conducted, allocation rules in cooperative games are examined. The paper collects some possible and impossible results of merging into a single player or splitting into a smaller unit in corporative games. The cooperative games come with side payment.

Introduction

A cooperative game with side payments is a basis of conflict. The game involves a definite number of players and the worth of each player in each team (Herings & Habis, 2006). The problems arise when analysts try to determine the player set and each of their value. Since each player is entitled to a valuation, ...