2. Production and nutritional value of soybean The soybean (Glycine max) is grown as a commercial crop in over 35 countries as the major oilseed (Smith & Huyser, 1987). The fruit of soybean is simple or take the shape of crescent pod, length about 3-7cm, including 1 or 2seeds which...
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”Alfred North Whitehead (18611947) in Science, 1906, p. 417Hydrology is largely a historical geoscience; it depend...
Value investing is a bedrock principle for quantitative and fundamental equity managers, as there is long-term efficacy to buying cheap stocks over expensive growth stocks. While Value investing remains attractive over the entire history of available data, it has been under extraordinary pressure since...
The Model T Ford The Model T Fordcost $850 in 1908; however, by 1925 the price had fallen to $290. How do we compare these values? If you wanted to compare the two years you would see that by using the CPI, the GDP deflator or the consumer bundle, $850 in 1908 is equivalent to...
(GDP) of the US had dropped by 45% compared to that of 1929, and the contribution made by trade to the GDP had dropped from 11 to 6.6% (Liu,2018). Despite the historical challenges, President Trump pushed the ‘America First’ mantra by adopting a protectionist approach as a cornerstone...
until now considered as the tenet of the political economy, business economics, and politics and even as a potential ‘third way’ to heal the failure of the wild capitalist model with Marxist utopia” (cf. Hinna2005, p. XVI.; Sciarelli1996,1998,1999,2002,2003,2005a,b,1998; Caselli1998...
Bill Brewster: Anyway, his whole thesis is the takeout value based on the AT&T transaction for Netflix is approximately $1,000 a sub. I just think it’s important for people to think for themselves on this. I sort of understand why in Barron’s, Mr. Nygren’s using that as an easy...
97. Let us look briefly at how the Federal Reserve criminals intentionally caused the Great Crash of 1929. 98. Most people are familiar with Charles Lindbergh, Jr., “Lucky Lindy”, who made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight. Fewer people know that his father, Charles, Sr., was...
The cost of college has been rising faster than the rate of inflation for quite a few years, now, according to the College Board, and that fast increase affects some segments of students harder than others. First-generation college students, non-traditional aged working adults, minority, and ...
To obtain the parametric maps of Ktrans, the signal intensity curves from both AIF and ROI were imported and fitted to the Tofts two-compartment model (Tofts et al, 1999) (Figure 2). Only the pixels with a goodness of fit (GOF) higher than 0.5 for this pharmacokinetic model were taken ...