Tracking and managing deemed abilities

Techniques for Managing Tracking Error

Managing tracking error on an ex ante basis requires an ability to assess the possible effects of trades on a fund’s performance relative to its benchmark. Given a trading strategy, its potential for reducing tracking error must be balanced against trading costs and return expectations. This chapter presents several simple diagnostic tools to help fund managers evaluate alternative trading stra...

Managing NymBoxes for Identity and Tracking Protection

Despite the attempts of well-designed anonymous communication tools to protect users from tracking or identification, flaws in surrounding software (such as web browsers) and mistakes in configuration may leak the user’s identity. We introduce Nymix, an anonymitycentric operating system architecture designed “top-tobottom” to strengthen identityand tracking-protection. Nymix’s core contribution...

Second Symposium Deemed a Success

Experiments were performed on cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to haematoporphyrin derivative (HpD) plus light, yielding survival rates of 40-100%. [3H]-thymidine, [3H]-tryptophan and ['4C]-lysine incorporation were used to quantitate DNA and protein synthesis in surviving cells after exposure. Multiple experiments demonstrated 78% reduction in DNA sysnthesis during the first day af...

The measurement Einstein deemed impossible

Fecal source tracking, the indicator paradigm, and managing water quality.

Fecal source tracking is used because standard methods of measuring fecal contamination in water by enumerating fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) do not identify the sources of the contamination. This paper presents a critical review of source tracking with emphasis on the extent to which methods have been tested (especially in comparison with other methods and/or with blind samples), when methods...