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Society of American Military Engineers

About: Society of American Military Engineers is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Health care & Pacific saury. The organization has 678 authors who have published 581 publications receiving 11788 citations.


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TL;DR: The most important finding of the present study was that reader-group membership at Time 4 could be very accurately determined from students' Time 1 scores, indicating that children at risk for reading difficulties can been very accurately identified very early in their academic experiences.
Abstract: The present study examined the development of phonological and reading skills in 171 students (98 males, 73 females) from the beginning of first grade (Time 1) to the end of second grade (Time 4). Based on their reading and intelligence scores at the end of second grade, these students were placed into nondisabled (ND), reading disabled (RD), or garden-variety poor reading (GV) groups. Although each group made gains in phonological processing, large differences were found between the ND and RD/GV groups. The RD and GV groups performed similarly on many of the tasks. Consistent with the literature, it was found that intelligence does not differentiate between good and poor readers. The most important finding of the present study was that reader-group membership at Time 4 could be very accurately determined from students' Time 1 scores. All of the children in the RD and GV groups were correctly identified, and only 3 of the 148 ND children were misclassified, indicating that children at risk for reading difficulties can be very accurately identified very early in their academic experiences.

317 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the difference between portfolio optimization in nominal and real terms, and showed how the introduction of bonds offering a real risk-free rate of interest can improve portfolio efficiency.
Abstract: A dramatic new develoument motivates 48 3 this paper: the emergence of virtuaily risk-free securities linked to the U.S. consumer price level. The new securities were issued first by the Franklin Savings Association of Ottawa, Kansas, in January 1988 in two different forms. ‘The first is certificates of deposit, called Inflation-Plus CDs, insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), and paying an interest rate tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI). Interest, paid monthly, is equal to a stated real rate plus the proportional increase in the CPI during the previous month. As of this writing in November 1988, the real rate ranges from 3% per year for a one-year maturity CD to 3.3% per yeilr for a ten-year maturity. The second form is twenty-year non-callable collateralized bonds, called Real Yield Securities, or REALs. These offer a floating coupon rate of 3% per year phs the previous year’s proportional change in the CI’I, adjusted and payable quarterly. A recent issue of similar bonds includes a put option. Two other financial institutions have followed the lead of Franklin Savings.’ If the trend continues, we have reached a milestone in the history of this country’s financial markets. Consider that for years prominent economists at all points of the ideological spectmm have argued that the U.S. Treasury should issue mch securities, while scholars have speculated why private markets for them have not hitherto developed.2 The current innovative environment in 5rl gj American financial markets appears finally to have put an end to this speculation by ]producing private indexed bonds in several forms. This article analyzes the gain to investors of this new investment alternative, considers likely changes in portfolio behavior that it might induce, and explores ways that it may be used in the future, principally to guarantee a safe stream of real benefits in retirement. The analytical framework is the familiar mean-variance model of portfolio selection of Markowitz and Tobin and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.3 I begin by analyzing the difference between portfolio optimization in nominal i3nd in real terms, then show how the introduction of bonds offering a real risk-free rate of interest can improve portfolio efficiency. Next I discuss the difference between hedging against inflation in the short run and in the long run and show why long-term index-linked bonds are the only true hedge against long-run inflation risk. Finally I explain how index-linked bonds can be the basis for providing inflation-protected retirement benefits. In an appendix I derive the set of equilibrium expected real rates of return on stocks, bonds, and bills that is consistent with the 3% per year real riskfree rate now offered by the index-linked securities.

313 citations

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TL;DR: A meta analysis of the strange situation, Child Develop ment, 59, 147-156(1988) as discussed by the authors showed that mothers' temperamental predictors of attachment are significantly more likely to be temperamental than infants' attachment to their fathers.
Abstract: cal Study of the Strange Situation (Erlbaum, Hills dale, NJ, 1978). 7. N.A. Fox, N.L. Kimmerly, and W.D. Sch?fer, Attachment to mother/attachment to father: A meta analysis, Child Development, 62, 210-225 (1991). 8. M.H. van Ijzendoom and P.M. Kroonen berg, Cross-cultural patterns of attachment: A meta analysis of the strange situation, Child Develop ment, 59, 147-156(1988). 9. H.H. Goldsmith and J.A. Alansky, Maternal and infant temperamental predictors of attachment: A meta-analytic review, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 805-816 (1987).

302 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
René M. Stulz12447081342
Dante Minniti9881337860
Chris Ryan9597134388
José Cernicharo8468327551
Inke R. König7132130311
Jerry D. Gardner6123611404
Ellen R. M. Druffel6121612696
Arthur H. Weston5412811181
Susan R. Goldman511757715
Jennifer Beecham502788857
Elizabeth Hampson42917772
Louis Guttman42819638
Liping Liu403177618
Robert A. Schwartz381534911
John V. Ringwood363735789
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202110
202013
20198
20184
20178
201614