Commodities: a case for active management

RP Akey - The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2005 - search.proquest.com
This article highlights recent arguments for favorable macro conditions for commodities
investments, including cyclical properties, inflation hedging characteristics, and global demand …

Alpha, beta and commodities: Can a commodities investment be both a high risk-adjusted return source, and a portfolio hedge?

RP Akey - The Journal of Wealth Management, 2006 - search.proquest.com
The author starts with the observation that passive commodity investments have enjoyed
four years of impressive returns and asset growth. Though there has been significant …

Natural resources funds of funds: Active management, risk management, and due diligence

R Akey, H Till, A Kins - Funds of Hedge Funds, 2006 - Elsevier
… 24 Natural resources funds of funds: active management, risk management, and due
diligence Rian Akey, Hilary Till, and Aleks Kins Abstract We discuss three features of natural …

Social interest: A key to solutions

RM LaFountain - Individual Psychology, 1996 - search.proquest.com
… Conclusions Through an examination of a study that involved solution-focused Adle- rian
groups, there appears to be a relationship between goal attainment and goals with a social …

The human solute carrier SLC41A1 belongs to a novel eukaryotic subfamily with homology to prokaryotic MgtE Mg2+ transporters

T Wabakken, E Rian, M Kveine, HC Aasheim - … and biophysical research …, 2003 - Elsevier
We report here the first identification and structural characterization of a eukaryotic protein
with homology to the bacterial MgtE family of potential Mg 2+ transporters. This human protein…

The practical application of narrative medicine at Mayo Clinic: imagining the scaffold of a worthy house

J Rian, R Hammer - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2013 - Springer
… Narrative is a key component of several programs, including those in Mayo Medical
School student selectives, bedside arts for patients, staff workshops for wellness, and patient …

Bone marrow stroma cells regulate TIEG1 expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells: Role of TGFβ/BMP‐6 and TIEG1 in chemotherapy escape

…, H Stubberud, ME Hystad, E Rian - … journal of cancer, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… to TGFβ and thus may function as a key regulatory gene mediating TGFβ effects.28 … It
plays a central role in the antiproliferative response to TGFβ, thus being a key regulatory factor …

Analysis of climate and vegetation characteristics along the Savanna-Desert Ecotone in Mali using MODIS data

S Rian, Y Xue, GM MacDonald, MB Touré… - GIScience & Remote …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… The Sahara Desert was excluded in this figure since this area has largely homogenous
and predominantly barren desert cover, and it is not a key land cover class for this study. The …

Optimization methods for history matching of complex reservoirs

…, JK Axmann, O Haase, DT Rian… - SPE Reservoir …, 2001 - onepetro.org
A key advantage of Evolution Strategies is the simple translation of model parameters
into the language of coded optimization parameters used by the optimization module. The …

Transiently redirected T cells for adoptive transfer

H Almåsbak, E Rian, HJ Hoel, M Pulè, S Wälchli… - …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A key limitation is the very short half-life of mRNA within the cell. It is likely that either
chemical modification or introduction of stable RNA structures may increase this half-life …