This article examines the formation of efficient portfolios using mutual funds that invest in life
settlements in combination with fixed-income and equity index funds. We investigate the …

This study investigates whether the inclusion of life settlement (LS) funds in the formation of
diversified portfolios contributes significantly to the mitigation of market risk and enhances …

… We perform two major tests of the WUE and CM stomatal … parameters for the WUE and
CM hypotheses that best fit the … data best follow the WUE or CM hypotheses. The WUE and …

… surrounding prairie by a 60-cm-deep plastic barrier. Dummy … the rest of the plot by a 30-cm-deep,
below-ground metal flange). … They were then planted in a 20-cm grid with permanently …

… We collected samples at 0–15 cm depth in the middle of the slope using a soil auger (four
samples per plot) and a soil core (four samples per plot). To avoid the interaction among the …

Los acuerdos de vida son un instrumento financiero mediante el que un tomador de seguros
de vida vende su póliza a un intermediario financiero a cambio de un único cobro en …

… pots with several ~1 cm diameter drainage holes and grown in a naturally lit glasshouse
facility at Western Sydney University in Richmond NSW, Australia (see Resco de Dios et al. …

… of 75 ± 4 cm and trunk diameter measured at 10 cm from the ground of 1.2 ± 0.1 cm. In spring
2018, … Pots with 30-cm depth and 20-L capacity were filled with a mixture of 80% compost (…

… Three 3.5-cm-long probe needles were installed at 0.6 cm distance between each other,
below the lowest branch (c. 10.2 cm above the ground), and after removing the 0.5–0.8 cm thick …

… We observed that g s was poorly predicted by the WUE and the CM hypotheses (Figure 3). …
m −2 s −1 and predictions from the CM hypothesis varied between 0.22 and 0.33 mol m −2 s −…