Many investors purchase mutual funds through intermediated channels, paying brokers or financial advisors for fund selection and advice. This article attempts to quantify the benefits that investors enjoy in exchange for the costs of these services. We study broker-sold and direct-sold funds from 1996 to 2004, and fail to find that brokers deliver substantial tangible benefits. Relative to dire...

This prospective, longitudinal investigation examined mechanisms proposed to explain continuities in parenting behavior across 2 generations (G1, G2). Data came from 187 G2 adults, their mothers (G1), and their children (G3). Prospective information regarding G2 was collected both during adolescence and early adulthood. G1 data were collected during G2's adolescence, and G3 data were generated ...

The strong product G1 £G2 of graphs G1 and G2 is the graph with V (G1) × V (G2) as the vertex set, and two distinct vertices (x1, x2) and (y1, y2) are adjacent whenever for each i ∈ {1, 2} either xi = yi or xiyi ∈ E(Gi). In this note we show that for two connected graphs G1 and G2 the edge-connectivity λ(G1£G2) equals min{δ(G1£ G2), λ(G1)(|V (G2)|+2|E(G2)|), λ(G2)(|V (G1)|+2|E(G1)|)}. In additi...

In complex two-plane Grassmannians G2(Cm+2) = SU2+m/S(U2?Um), it is known that a real hypersurface satisfying the condition (L?(k)?R?)Y (L?R?)Y locally congruent to an open part of tube around totally geodesic G2(Cm+1) in G2(Cm+2). this paper, as abient space, we consider hyperbolic Grassmannian SU2,m/S(U2?Um) and give complete classification Hopf hypersurfaces with above condition.

BACKGROUND: To achieve delivery of a drug to tumors, folic acid (FA) was used as a targeting ligand to change nanocarriers. Since the folate receptor has more expression in several tumor types such as breast cancer....

Let G be a K4-minor-free graph with maximum degree . It is known that if ∈ {2, 3} then G2 is ( + 2)-degenerate, so that (G2) ch(G2) + 3. It is also known that if 4 then G2 is ( 3 2 + 1)-degenerate and (G2) 3 2 + 1. It is proved here that if 4 then G2 is 3 2 -degenerate and ch(G2) 3 2 + 1. These results are sharp. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of weighted maximal operators Marcinkiewicz type (C,?)-means ??,* p (f) := supn?P |??n(f)|/ n2/p?(2+?) in Hardy space Hp(G2) (0 < ? 1 and 2/(2 + ?)). It is showed that are bounded from dyadic to Lebesgue Lp(G2), a sense sharp. was also proved strong convergence theorem for (C, ?) means Walsh-Fourier series Hp(G2).

Bilkent University, Department of Chemistr fen.bilkent.edu.tr Abant İzzet Baysal University, Department National Institute of Fundamental Studie Lanka † Electronic supplementary information G2-LiCl-2, G2-LiBr-2, G2-LiI-2, and G2-L pattern of mesocrystals of G2-LiI–I2-4, UV is 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and LiI–I2 mixture in Raman spectra of G2-LiI-2 and G2-LiI–I2See DOI: 10.1039/c6ra19979h Cite this: R...