* Diversification: Bond funds invest in many individual bonds, so that even a relatively small investment is diversified — and when an underperforming bond is just one of many bonds in a fund, its negative impact on an investor's overall portfolio is lessened.

Diversification continued in 2007 when Houchens announced that it would acquire Hilliard Lyons, a full-service stock broker and investment firm based in Louisville, from PNC Financial Services.

* Diversification: Lenders to a small number of borrowers ( or kinds of borrower ) face a high degree of unsystematic credit risk, called concentration risk.

Risks can be reduced in four main ways: Avoidance, Diversification, Hedging and Insurance by transferring risk.

Diversification of the economy into non-hydrocarbon industries remain a long-term issue.

Diversification in the early 1990s saw the rise of information technology, led by call centres which made use of the city's bilingual workforce.

* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

Diversification is still a long-term issue for this over-exposed economy.

Diversification from traditional flue cured tobacco to include burley tobacco and other modes of agriculture is underway.

Diversification refers to the number of different securities in a fund.

Diversification came with a shareholding in L ' Oréal in 1974.

Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus ( Cupressaceae ): variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals.

Others believe that Swadesh proposed early linkages, but believed that languages diverged immediately among peoples, as he expressed in his major, but unfinished work, The Origin and Diversification of Language ( 1971 ), published posthumously.

* Ericson, Per G. P .; Anderson, Cajsa L .; Britton, Tom ; Elżanowski, Andrzej ; Johansson, Ulf S .; Kallersjö, Mari ; Ohlson, Jan I .; Parsons, Thomas J .; Zuccon, Dario & Mayr, Gerald ( 2006 ): Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils.

Diversification of tanagers, a species rich bird group, largely follows lowlands to montane regions of South America.

* Portfolio Diversification benefits of Investing in Stamps by Chris Veld, University of Stirling.

Diversification touched his other activities.

Diversification into new lines of business began in the 1920s.

* Diversification ( new markets, new products ): Mohen A. S, Bion Products, Selectron Ltd, bk

Mapping this theory to business yields these familiar conditions: Entrepreneurship, Success and Growth, Diversification.

* Defence Diversification Agency, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Related regional development posts include Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.

He was appointed to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's cabinet on January 15, 2002, serving as Secretary of State for both Western Economic Diversification and Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

He was named Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Sport on July 20, 2004.

* Western Economic Diversification Canada.

Therefore, because reduction in tasks results in reduction of forces required, the plan should provide for expanding area coverage.

Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from Sound Devices, This of course results in a reduction in audio quality, but a variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove the data that has least effect on perceived quality.

Moving away from the centre results in the reduction of the gains that those elements derive.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

Early results disclosed in 2011 indicate that the coppered rooms demonstrated a 97 % reduction in surface pathogens versus the non-coppered rooms.

He was persistent in studying these results and eventually isolated cadmium metal by roasting and reduction of the sulfide.

Common results of reduction at the cathode are hydrogen gas or pure metal from metal ions.

Consequently, military aggression that results in territorial annexation became increasingly likely to prompt international condemnation, diplomatic censure, a reduction in international aid or the introduction of economic sanction, or, as in the case of 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, international military intervention to reverse the territorial aggression.

This results in a dose-dependent thickness reduction.

Volatility affects the chemical composition of the explosive such that a marked reduction in stability may occur, which results in an increase in the danger of handling.

Memantine treatment results in a significantly higher reduction in caspase-3 positive neurons.

This results in a decrease in the strength of the Pacific trade winds, and a reduction in rainfall over eastern and northern Australia.

Increasing capacity building for plant breeding in developing countries is critical for the achievement of meaningful results in poverty and hunger reduction and to reverse the current worrisome trends.

This results in a great reduction in hull drag, and a further corresponding increase in speed.

The results showed that it is primarily the subject's responsiveness to suggestion, whether within the context of hypnosis or not, that is the main determinant of causing reduction in pain.

The results vary in each case, with varying degrees of the attenuation of the burning, tingling, and / or shooting component of neuralgic pain being quite frequent, along with a modest reduction in overall pain level in some cases.

A court may also order a public company to re-register as private on approving a ' minute of reduction ' of share capital which results in the issued share capital falling below the statutory minimum.

When in the kiln, the wax melts off and the carbon, that results from oxygen reduction, replaces the wax.

The direct application of the blankets to the orbiter results in weight reduction, improved producibility and durability, reduced fabrication and installation cost, and reduced installation schedule time.

The aging process results in evaporation, so each year in the cask causes a loss of volume as well as a reduction in alcohol.

This results in reduction of the number of routes that have to be advertised.

A-weighted noise measurements were found to give misleading results because they did not give sufficient prominence to the 6 kHz region where the noise reduction was having greatest effect, and sometimes one piece of equipment would even measure worse than another and yet sound better, because of differing spectral content.

However this reduction in shot noise does not apply when the current results from random events at a potential barrier which all the electrons must overcome due to a random excitation, such as by thermal activation.

Reduced motor activity results from a reduction of these amines.