Institutional investors, risk/return and corporate governance : practical lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

The global grown in institutional investors means that firms can no longer ignore their influence in capital markets. However, not all institutional investors have the same motives to influence the firms they invest in. Institution investors' ability to influence management depends on the size of their investment and whether they have any business relations with the firm. Using a sample of Australian firms from 2006 to 2008, our empirical results show that the proportion of a company's shares held by institutional investors is positively associated with firm governance ratings, risk and profitability. This study shows that a positive association between risk and return is associated with large active institutional ownership, which we interpret as shareholders with sufficient power to pressure management to increase short-term profits.

OCR AS - A2 Units F213 - F216 Biology : practical skills in biology.

Guía de revisión en el área de la biología para estudiantes que estén preparando el examen OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) en el nivel AS y A2 (enseñanza secundaria de segundo ciclo). El libro está dividido en tres secciones: una introducción sobre como utilizar la guía; una orientación sobre las habilidades, procedimientos y terminología necesarias para el desarrollo de los ejercicios prácticos del examen, explicadas basándose en ejemplos de casos que pueden aparecer en la prueba; y un apartado final con ejemplos de ejercicios y dos posibilidades de respuestas (correctas y con errores típicos) comentadas y valoradas por un examinador.

Design of online practical lessons in colorimetry

Applied colorimetry is an important module in the program of the elective subject "Colour Science: industrial applications”. This course is taught in the Optics and Optometry Degree and it has been used as a testing for the application of new teaching and assessment techniques consistent with the new European Higher Education Area. In particular, the main objective was to reduce the attendance to lessons and encourage the individual and collective work of students. The reason for this approach is based on the idea that students are able to work at their own learning pace. Within this dynamic work, we propose online lab practice based on Excel templates that our research group has developed ad-hoc for different aspects of colorimetry, such as conversion to different colour spaces, calculation of perceptual descriptors (hue, saturation, lightness), calculation of colour differences, colour matching dyes, etc. The practice presented in this paper is focused on the learning of colour differences. The session is based on a specific Excel template to compute the colour differences and to plot different graphs with these colour differences defined at different colour spaces: CIE ΔE, CIE ΔE94 and the CIELAB colour space. This template is implemented on a website what works by addressing the student work at a proper and organized way. The aim was to unify all the student work from a website, therefore the student is able to learn in an autonomous and sequential way and in his own pace. To achieve this purpose, all the tools, links and documents are collected for each different proposed activity to achieve guided specific objectives. In the context of educational innovation, this type of website is normally called WebQuest. The design of a WebQuest is established according to the criteria of usability and simplicity. There are great advantages of using WebQuests versus the toolbox “Campus Virtual” available in the University of Alicante. The Campus Virtual is an unfriendly environment for this specific purpose as the activities are organized in different sectors depending on whether the activity is a discussion, an activity, a self-assessment or the download of materials. With this separation, it is more difficult that the student follows an organized sequence. However, our WebQuest provides a more intuitive graphical environment, and besides, all the tasks and resources needed to complete them are grouped and organized according to a linear sequence. In this way, the student guided learning is optimized. Furthermore, with this simplification, the student focuses on learning and not to waste resources. Finally, this tool has a wide set of potential applications: online courses of colorimetry applied for postgraduate students, Open Course Ware, etc.

Practical lessons and exercises in grammar

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical lessons in the use of English for primary and grammar schools,

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical lessons in English grammar and composition; for young beginners: being an introduction to "The principles of English grammar," with copious exercises, and directions for their use.

Mode of access: Internet.

Graded lessons in English : an elementary English grammar : consisting of one hundred practical lessons, carefully graded and adapted to the class-room /

On spine: Elementary English.

Practical lessons in the use of English : for primary and grammar schools /

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical lessons in the use of English,

On cover: State series.

Practical lessons in the use of English : for grammar schools, with supplement /

On cover: Second book.

An elementary English grammar : consisting of one hundred practical lessons, carefully graded and adapted to the class room /

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical lessons in Welsh in imitation of the natural method of learning to speak a language.

Mode of access: Internet.

Portraits and principles of the world's great men and women with practical lessons on successful life by over fifty leading thinkers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical lessons and exercises in heat : for use in schools and university classes /

Cover and spine title: Lessons and exercises in heat.

Everybody's paint book. A complete guide to the art of outdoor and indoor painting. Designed for the special use of those who wish to do their own work, and consisting of practical lessons in plain painting, varnishing, polishing, staining, paper-hanging, kalsomining, etc.

Pages 184-188, advertising matter.