This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types of financial assets and the share of financial wealth held in each asset category. Households in poor health are less likely to hold ...

A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is use for both /ǝ/ and retracted high vowel /ɨ(:)/. This double was almost universally adopted by c. 1330, when a grammarian labelled /ɨ/ as ‘dark y’ ‘clear illustrated them with polysyllables such ystyr /ˈǝstɨr/ ‘meaning’, in which value predictable from position word. At that time three-way system /i(:)/, ‘dark’ , ‘clear’ t...

The paper is devoted to the transformation of structure logical-ontological concepts doctrine Cyril Alexandria in treatise Severus Antioch “Against wicked Grammarian”. question raised about sources Severus’ teaching general and particular hypothesis put forward existence such a Alexandria. A selective comparison quotations from quoted by interpretations data proposed carried out. On basis this,...

Like Phenol (C 6 H 5 OH) and Urea {(NH 2 ) 2 C=O)}, Furfuryl alcohol (C 4 H 3 OCH 2 OH), a product of agricultural origin is capable of polymerization with Formaldehyde (H 2 C = 0) under suitable PH conditions. However, usable polymers, at least as no bake for Foundry applications are obtained only when the condensations are carried out in association with Urea, Phenol or both. The series of re...

in literary histories written in both iran and the west it has generally be assumed that early modern persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of western literary works. this has been and is still a claim. almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. while there is no point in denying a european influence on early modern persian literature,...

Resum The optimum portfolio selection for an investor with particular preferences was proven to lie on the normalized efficient frontier between two bounds defined by the Ballestero (1998) bounding theorem. A deeper understanding is possible if the decision-maker is provided with visual and quantitative techniques. Here, we derive useful insights as a way to support investor?s decision-making t...

Max Weber attributes the rise of modern Western society to Puritanism, noting that the Calvinist Protestant found, in his lonely attempt to communicate directly with God, a sense of human dignity and individualism in agreement with the rational structure of democracy. Weber, however, asserts that Confucianism lacks the Protestant way of thinking and hence cannot help with the rise of a modern C...