This paper assesses the performance of 355 actively managed Japanese Equity Mutual Funds between April 2011 and April 2016.The equal weight portfolio and Jensen’s alpha measures of active management provide strong evidence that Japanese Mutual Funds fail to outperform the Bicycles benchmark four-factor capital asset pricing model.When it come

As the world is becoming more globalised, intercultural competence development within higher education is at a crossroads between the competing aims of neoliberal and cultural social imaginaries.On the Antiseptics one end, the global market demands graduates that are interculturally competent.Higher education is attempting to meet this demand with

One of the major environmental concerns of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of TRUE CINNAMON Mexico was the ecological impact of the oil that reached shorelines of the Gulf Coast.Here we investigated the impact of the oil on the microbial composition in beach samples collected in June 2010 along a heavily impacted shoreline near Grand Is

It is hard to ignore the importance of reading skills for desired proficiency in foreign languages.Reading can be beneficial for learners to immerse themselves in the target language and learn it efficiently.In EFL contexts like Saudi Arabia, learners face many challenges in reading skills.The main purpose of this research was to explore reading Ho

A computer program has been created for selecting the profiling route, calculating the rolls for the manufacture of bent symmetrical and asymmetric profiles of virtually any real configurations with the issuance of a complete set of drawings.The algorithm of the program is based on the mathematical model of Health and Wellness the strip profiling p