This paper investigates hedge fund performance and risk. The empirical evidence indicates that hedge funds differ substantially from traditional investment vehicles such as mutual funds. The funds with watermarks significantly outperform the funds without watermarks. The average hedge fund returns are related positively to incentive fees, the size of the fund, and the lockup period. Hedge funds...

Stachys officinalis L., palustris sylvatica L. (Lamiaceae) are widely used as herbal remedies. In this study, comparative assessment of the phenolic acids, flavonoids, anthocyanin, and tannins content, together with antioxidant activity extracts obtained from flowers, leaves stems was performed. Phenolic acids determined by HPLC method reached highest values in flower extract S. palustris, stem...

If a vernier stimulus precedes a grating for a very short time, the vernier either remains invisible, but may bequeath some of its properties to the grating (feature inheritance), or might shine through keeping its features - depending on the number of grating elements [Herzog, M. H. & Koch, C., 2001. Seeing properties of an invisible element: feature inheritance and shine-through. Proceedings ...

As invasive plant species are a major driver of change on oceanic islands, their control is an important challenge for restoration ecology. The post-control recovery of native vegetation is crucial for the treatments to be considered successful, but few studies have evaluated the effects of control measures on both target and non-target species. To investigate the efficiency of manual control o...

The male of Cryptothele verrucosa L. Koch, 1872, the type species of Cryptothele L. Koch, 1872, known from Fiji and Samoa, is described for the first time. It is compared with the male of C. alluaudi Simon, 1893, the single properly described species of the genus.

Trogulus banaticus Avram, 1971 is characterised and recorded as new for Slovenia. This species was previously mistaken for T. coriziformis C. L. Koch, 1839 and T. graecus Dahl, 1903 which were later rejected from the Slovenian fauna. T. banaticus is compared with the similar, and partly sympatric, T. tingiformis C. L. Koch, 1847 with which it has often been confused. A table of distinguishing c...

K Haar ([email protected])1, V Bremer1, C Houareau1, T Meyer2, S Desai1, M Thamm3, O Hamouda1 1. Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, STI and Bloodborne Infections Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 2. Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 3. Department of Epidemiology and Health ...

and masculinizing effects are seen, the former being greater than the latter. The significance of these findings remains for future study.5 1 Willier, B. H., Gallagher, T. F., and Koch, F. C., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 21, 625-631 (1935). 2 Willier, B. H., Gallagher, T. F., and Koch, F. C., Physiol. Zool., 10, 101-122. 3 Wolff, E., and Wolff, Em., C. R. Soc. Biol., 123, 1191-1193. 4 Wolff, E., and...