Despite the size and importance of separately managed accounts (SMAs) and collective investment trusts, their characteristics and performance have not been studied in detail. We show that separate account performance is similar to that of index funds and superior to that of actively managed mutual funds. Management supplies a benchmark for each separate account. When the management-selected ben...

The interpretation generated from a sentence of the form P and Q can often be different to that generated by Q and P, despite the fact that and has a symmetric truth-conditional meaning. We experimentally investigated to what extent this difference in meaning is due to the connective and and to what extent it is due to order of mention of the events in the sentence. In three experiments, we col...

Guanidine compounds have important biochemical properties. Aminoguanidine, as an example, is an anti-oxidant, a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor (NOS) which prevents nitric oxide formation, and an inhibitor of advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs). As an anti-oxidant, aminoguanidine may affect the formation of atherosclerotic lesions through protection from LDL oxidation. Inhibition of AGEs...

For many years there was little discussion of or activity to develop new energetic materials for military applications. However, since the end of the Cold War there have been significant new activities in such materials. Particularly in the last 10 years, a number of new synthesized energetic materials have been reported and generated much discussion. Some of the most interesting newly develope...

New 1-phenoxymethyl-4-aryl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2?,4a,8a-triazacyclopenta[ cd ]azulene-3-carboxylic (or carbothionic) acid derivatives have been designed, synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro antioxidant activity under conditions of the artificial oxidative stress using ionol, ascorbic ?-tocopherol as reference drugs. It has found that ]azulene-3-carbothionic 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e, 9f, 9i 1-phen...

Eleven new 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-(5-aryl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)phenols 5a-k were synthesized by reacting aryl hydrazides with 3,5-di-tert butyl 4-hydroxybenzoic acid in the presence of phosphorus oxychloride. The resulting compounds were characterized based on their IR, ¹H-NMR, ¹³C-NMR, and HRMS data. 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazide (DPPH) and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assays were us...

This study concerns the structural change of lignin during auto-catalyzed ethanol-water pulping of aspen by 1H-NMR. The results showed that the linkages of alkyl-aryl ether of lignin, such as the α-ether linkages (α-O-4) and the β-ether linkages (β-O-4), were broken and the alkyl part formed carbenium at the Cα and Cβ of the aliphatic branch. Meanwhile, the aryl part of ether accepted one H and...

Reaction of PdCl2 with N,N-bis-(diphenylphosphanylmethyl)-2-aminopyridine (bdppmapy) afforded a mononuclear complex [(bdppmapy)PdCl2] (). Compound was characterized by elemental analysis, IR, (1)H, (13)C and (31)P NMR, electrospray ion mass spectra (ESI-MS) and X-ray single crystal crystallography. The Pd(ii) center in is chelated by bdppmapy, showing a cis-square planar geometry. With the assi...