optimal allocations to this asset class for minimizing mixed-asset portfolio variance or maximizing performance ratios. We …

This paper explores approaches to measure the performance of the internal audit function. Based upon three proposed … dimensions of formal internal audit performance - material performance, cost and risk - it uses competence research methodology … to characterize and structure internal audit competence as the prerequisite for material performance that can be measured …

We introduce a new two-dimensional measure for the heterogeneity of performance within groups of economic units. This … measure accounts both, for the relative performance of the single units of groups and their relative size. We demonstrate that …

-selected angle. The resistance training protocol was based on The Best Performance Movement exercise method. Four 20-minute sessions …

utilization. Thus, system-level benchmarking provides objective comparison of cloud providers from performance standpoint …. Unixbench, Dbench and Iperf are the System-level benchmarks chosen to test the performance of server, file I/O and network … respectively. In order to capture the variation in performance, the tests were performed at different times on weekdays and …