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Testing and Analyzing the 10-Day Moving Average Rule as a System for Commodity Trading
(Creighton University, 1972)
I have been interested in trading commodities for the last five or six years. I opened my first account with a brokerage firm in 1967, and in the next two or three months my account balance went from $600 to over $2,400, ...
The Dietary and Endogenous Components of Human Serum Triglycerides in Alimentary Lipemia
(Creighton University, 1971)
In normal alimentary lipemia in humans, following the ingestion of a fat meal, the serum triglyceride concentration rises to a peak level approximately four hours after the meal and falls to the original fasting level ...
Evaluating General Histories of China: A Comparative Analysis of Textbook Treatments of the Taiping Rebellion
(Creighton University, 1976)
John King Fairbank has called the field of Chinese history "still profoundly underdeveloped." Specialists are in short supply while misinformation abounds. The American public have alternately loved and feared the Chinese, ...
The Study of the Helix-Coil Transition of Polyglutamic Acid in the Presence of the Cupric Ion
(Creighton University, 1970)
Since Pauling and Corey (1) proposed the well ordered helix conformation of polyamino acids, great interest has been shown concerning their behavior in solvent systems. Doty et. al,, (2) in 1957 showed evidence that solvent ...
The Mechanism by Which Gastrin Elicits Contraction of Guinea Pig Ileum Smooth Muscle
(Creighton University, 1971)
The gastric antral hormone, gastrin, has a wide spectrum of activities on the gastrointestinal tract. Resides its stimulatory role on the secretion of gastric acid, gastrin also influences intestinal tone and motility. ...
Foreign Policy as an Issue in the Presidential Election of 1948
(Creighton University, 1971)
General and popular accounts of the presidential election of 1948 invariably emphasize the importance of domestic issues and pass over the issues of foreign policy. In the course of graduate research in contemporary American ...
Harry S. Truman and the Potsdam Conference
(Creighton University, 1970)
In writing this thesis on the Potsdam Conference, I have attempted to explain the significance and events of the conference from the point of view of the United States delegation. In particular, I have tried to show Harry ...
Stalin and Trotsky 1926-1928
(Creighton University, 1975)
This examination of the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky from 1926 to 1928 is written to engender an appreciation of the struggle in its most intensive phase. While an analysis of the entire scope of the succession ...
Deterministic Influences in the Works of William Faulkner
(Creighton University, 1970)
The structure of man's life demands that each person who enters the world discover and then face the reality in which he finds himself. If a person is unable to discover or face that reality, he fails to meet a basic ...
The Role of William Shatler in the Conduct of United States Foreign Policy in Latin America, 1810-1813
(Creighton University, 1970)
The United States has acted with an ambivalence toward Latin America, characterized largely by an inability to reconcile the precepts of national self- determination and national self-interest. The American government, in ...