The importance of dividends in long-term investment performance, which the old farmer
understood, has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Of the 11.13% average annual total …

Recent evidence suggest that certain valuation measures such as dividend yields and price-to-earnings
ratios are useful predictors of international equity returns. 1 The purpose of this …

RESULTS Following are the most important findings of the study. Exhibit 1 shows risk and
return characteristics in local currencies. 1. In terms of their total annual compounded returns, …

Polyphosphate kinases (PPKs) are involved in many metabolic processes; enzymes of the
second family (PPK2) are responsible for nucleotide synthesis fuelled by the consumption of …

On December 10, Harry Markowitz and his disciple, William Sharpe, both Americans, will be
awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. They are the founders of Modern Portfolio Theory, …

Polyphosphate kinases (PPKs) have become popular biocatalysts for nucleotide 5'-triphosphate
(NTP) synthesis and regeneration. Two unrelated families are described: PPK1 and …

… To prove the superior stability of a transcyclization product under retro-Michael conditions
we performed co-incubation experiments with GSH. On the one hand, we compared the …

… be studied in this reaction is the Michael acceptor (or primary … Within this study, we intended
to evaluate Michael acceptors … the corresponding tellurides from the Michael-aldol reaction. …

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a tool now increasingly proposed to monitor the
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Lithium n butylchalcogenolates are generated in situ by reacting the elements (S, Se, and Te)
with n butyllithium at 0C. Reaction of the lithium alkylchalcogenolates with activated …