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... the secondbest buy point of the twentieth century. That was followed by another su-perb buy point in 1992. Notice that for the past 100 years, these ideal buy-ing points came inyears ending ... years ending in twos and threes, followed by the in- credibly strong five years. The next opportunity to look for a buy point is in the fall of any year ending in seven.Finally, a long-term investor ... figurativelyspeaking, the keys to the kingdom of stock market forecasting. The irony of the situation is that I spent the next seven years trying to determine how toforecast stock market prices out into the...
... 2.1 presents the results of buying in March of each of the years ending in an eight starting in 1878 and continuing through 1998. The exit is on the close of thelast trading day in December. ... move,making it the strongest year inthe 10-year pattern. Years ending in eightshowed winners in 8 out of 10 occurrences. The poorer-performing years were those ending in seven and those years ending ... the consecutive stringof the 11 winning years ending in a five? And how about that eight year in the pattern—would it also produce gains similar to those as it had in the past? Years ending in...
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... consumers inthelast three to five years for the organic food. Also the interviews inthe prevailing marketing channel for organic food and beverages in Slovenia, namely the retail shops, indicated ... using the LIMDEP software (Greene, 1999). In doing so, the independent variables - other than the one being examined - were held constant at their mean values. The calculation of quasi-elasticities ... eggs increasing loyalty did not affect the probability of purchasing organic inthe early period (insignificant parameter estimate) but increased the probability of purchasing organics in the...
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... they were sown at a higher m.c.3.3. The changes in germinationof prechilled seeds during storageFigure 3 shows all the results obtained in the laborato-ry during the ... permits the breakingof dormancy without allowing the germination. The pro-posed prechilling m.c. have varied from one author toanother. However, in all cases, the values ... seedling emergence obtained in the nursery(figure 2) were similar to those obtained in the laboratory(tables III-VI). Even if there were no significant differ-ences in...
... that pain fibers can be identified in the synovium, in ligaments especially near their insertions, in bone, in muscle, and inthe outer third of the meniscus inthe knee. In an unusual study in which ... frominjury. These include the muscles across the joint whichcontract in a smooth coordinated fashion through the excursion of the joint, coordination informed by nervoussystem inputs. Also included ... adjusting for the severity of their kneepain. Buckling inthe knee may reflect weakness of musclessuch as the quadriceps, which stabilize the joint duringactivities like stair climbing. Strengthening...
... ActivityIndex (CDAI) [13]. Indeed, the lower the disease activitycategory that can be attained under therapy, the lower the progression of joint damage [12,22].On the other hand, in clinical ... oftheir level of improvement.These and other insights mandate a change in clinical trialreporting by requesting the provision of information on cate-gories of disease activity attained inthe ... trial design and clinicalpractice, allowing further improvements inthe approach tosuccessful therapy of RA.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.References1....