Individual investors trade stocks in a way very different from what mainstream financial economic theory would predict: they generate too much trading volume and yet obtain belowbenchmark performance. This chapter overviews major 'puzzles' of individual investor trading. The extant literature suggests that behavioral biases and psychological explanations are largely responsible for many of the ...

Nearly all data regarding land-plant turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary come from western North America, relatively close to the Chicxulub, Mexico impact site. Here, we present a palynological analysis of a section in Patagonia that shows a marked fall in diversity and abundance of nearly all plant groups across the K/Pg interval. Minimum diversity occurs during the earliest Dani...

introduction: given the importance of spirituality and health as well as activities done by hospital personnel, the aim of present study is to evaluate the relationship between spirituality and general health and to assess some possible affecting factors such as demographic and work factors on these variables in hospital staff. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was done on hospi...