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UNINA9910165061403321 |
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Irving Washington <1783-1859, > |
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Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey / / Washington Irving |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : The Floating Press, , 2015 |
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1835 |
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1 online resource (173 pages) |
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In the early nineteenth century, American writer Washington Irving took a trip abroad to spend some time in the quaint villages around the Scottish border. While there, he made the acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott, a long-time resident of the area. These charming sketches and essays document Irving's travels and his friendship with Scott. |
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UNINA9910830179103321 |
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Melin Mark H |
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High-performance managed futures [[electronic resource] ] : the new way to diversify your portfolio / / Mark H. Melin |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, 2010 |
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0-470-88685-4 |
1-282-77344-5 |
9786612773440 |
1-118-26768-0 |
0-470-88684-6 |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Wiley finance series ; ; 598 |
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Portfolio management |
Investments |
Risk |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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High-Performance Managed Futures: The New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Chapter 1: Understand It: The Truth about Risk and Misunderstood Investments; Chapter 2: Define It: Establish Performance and Risk Targets; Chapter 3: Work With It: Build Basic Portfolios Using Targets; Chapter 4: Realize It: The Old Way versus High Performance; Chapter 5: Don't Be a Victim: Leverage Managed Futures Regulation and Account Structure to Avoid Hedge Fund Fraud; Chapter 6: Recognize It: Volatility + Volatility and Lintner's Message |
Chapter 7: Use It: Reward-Adjusted Deviation (RAD) Considers Past Probability and Rewards SuccessChapter 8: Protect it: Principal-Protected, Conservative, and Risky Investments; Chapter 9: Use All of It: Overlooked Points of Correlation; Chapter 10: Build It: CTA Evaluation and Portfolio Construction; Chapter 11: Understand It: The Naked Truth Behind Managed Futures Risk; Chapter 12: Don't Sit Back: Active Management of Risky Investments; Appendix A: HPFM Strategy |
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Benchmark Performance Study; Appendix B: Twelve Questions Investors Should Ask . . . of Themselves |
Appendix C: Selecting a Commodity Trading AdvisorAppendix D: Identifying True Risk and Utilizing the Best Managed Futures Performance Measure; Appendix E: Regulated versus Unregulated Entities; Appendix F: Markowitz and Lintner: A "Modern" Investment Method Half a Century Old; Notes; About the Author; Index |
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A provocative and insightful look at using managed futures to diversify investment portfolios Financial advisors have long ignored managed futures. Yet, in the past thirty years, managed futures have significantly outperformed traditional stock and bond investments. In High-Performance Managed Futures: The New Way to Diversity Your Portfolio, author Mark H. Melin advises investors to question the commonly held belief of stocks and bonds, buy and hold. The first book of its kind, Melin advances a Nobel Prize winning investment method that's been updated for today's world to describ |
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UNINA9910349347403321 |
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Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Foreign Language Education : Global Issues, Models, and Best Practices from the Middle East and Turkey / / edited by Donald F. Staub |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) |
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Language and languages - Study and teaching |
School management and organization |
Education and state |
Education, Higher |
International education |
Comparative education |
Language Education |
Organization and Leadership |
Educational Policy and Politics |
Higher Education |
International and Comparative Education |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter 1.The Increasing need for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Foreign Language Education -- Part I. Global Perspectives on Quality Assurance and Accreditation -- Chapter 2. Investigating the Growth of English Medium Higher Education in Turkey and the Middle East Region -- Chapter 3. Balancing National and International Accreditation Requirements to Achieve National Strategic Trends -- Chapter 4. The Case of The Commission on English Language Program Accreditation: U. S. Specialized Accreditation as a Response to the Increasing Demand for Quality Assurance in Foreign Language Education -- Chapter 5. Accreditation: A Commodity or a Quest for Quality? -- Part II. National Perspectives on Quality Assurance and Accreditation -- Chapter 6. Quality in Higher Education in Turkey -- Chapter 7. The Experience of Quality in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: In Times of Rapid Change and Complexities -- Chapter 8. Bridging the Quality Gap in English Language Education BetweenPost-Secondary Education and Public Schools in Qatar -- Chapter 9. The Accreditation of English Language Teacher Education Programs in the Arab Region: The Case of Sultan Qaboos University -- Chapter 10. Establishing a National English Language Accrediting Body in Turkey: The Case of DEDAK -- Part III. Best Practices for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Foreign Language Education -- Chapter 11. CPD and Accreditation of EFL Programs: A Quasi-Symbiotic Relationship -- Chapter 12. Learning outcomes: Core issues in Higher Education -- Chapter 13. Implementation of Curriculum and Assessment Accreditation Standards in the English Language Program at KAU. |
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Greater student mobility, increasing demand for access to tertiary education, as well as policy changes have spurred rapid expansion of the global higher education sector. However, with increased demand comes considerable variation in the quality of the supply. As higher education is an expensive endeavor for all stakeholders – governments, funders, employers, and families – there are also increasing expectations for accountability and demonstrations of quality. English as a foreign language (EFL) programs, in particular, are under considerable pressure to substantiate their value, resulting in a significant rise in interest around their quality. This volume is the outcome of a May 2018 international conference on quality and specialized accreditation, held in Turkey. The book’s three sections take the reader from the global to the program level, examining trends and best practices in quality assurance and accreditation in EFL programs. The book’s geographic focus is primarily the Middle East and Turkey, yet the issues discussed herein a quite global in nature. This volume will be of interest to educational administrators at the institutional or program level, educational leadership programs focusing on higher education, language teacher preparation programs, and administrators in centralized education systems or accrediting organizations. |
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