Optimal asset allocation for university endowment funds is very important in USA. The management of endowment funds is challenging due to the need of finding out the balance between providing adequate and stable spend...Optimal asset allocation for university endowment funds is very important in USA. The management of endowment funds is challenging due to the need of finding out the balance between providing adequate and stable spending for beneficiaries and growth of the portfolio. In this paper, the author address these allocation constraints in a dynamic framework, in which minimum subsistence levels are introduced in the objective function and derive explicit formulas for the optimal portfolio strategy.展开更多
This thesis reports the impact of strategies-based instruction on reading comprehension. In the study, 76 intermediate EFL students of non-English major were either participants in a strategies-based instruction treat...This thesis reports the impact of strategies-based instruction on reading comprehension. In the study, 76 intermediate EFL students of non-English major were either participants in a strategies-based instruction treatment or were comparison students receiving regular language course. Both groups filled out a pre-treatment learning strategy questionnaire and then performed a pre-test and a post-test. The data looked for links between strategy training and reading proficiency. The findings indicated significant improvements in students' reading comprehension as a result of the strategies-based instruction program. Another finding was that the strategy intervention had an effect on the improvement of students' ability to understand main ideas and make inferences from given passages.展开更多
文摘Optimal asset allocation for university endowment funds is very important in USA. The management of endowment funds is challenging due to the need of finding out the balance between providing adequate and stable spending for beneficiaries and growth of the portfolio. In this paper, the author address these allocation constraints in a dynamic framework, in which minimum subsistence levels are introduced in the objective function and derive explicit formulas for the optimal portfolio strategy.
文摘This thesis reports the impact of strategies-based instruction on reading comprehension. In the study, 76 intermediate EFL students of non-English major were either participants in a strategies-based instruction treatment or were comparison students receiving regular language course. Both groups filled out a pre-treatment learning strategy questionnaire and then performed a pre-test and a post-test. The data looked for links between strategy training and reading proficiency. The findings indicated significant improvements in students' reading comprehension as a result of the strategies-based instruction program. Another finding was that the strategy intervention had an effect on the improvement of students' ability to understand main ideas and make inferences from given passages.
