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dissertation
[ dis-er- tey -sh uh n ]
/ ˌdɪsəˈteɪʃən /
Origin of dissertation 1
Thirteen years ago, while working on her PHD dissertation in Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula, Borgerson encountered a problem.
At Harvard, he received a PhD in government and wrote his dissertation under Henry Kissinger, who became a lifelong friend.
I planned to go back to physics after a couple of years and then return to wrap up my dissertation.
My buba’s lived experience helped shape me into the girl who wrote her college dissertation on the gender pay gap, arguing for equal parental leave for dads and moms, almost 20 years before any major employer implemented any such thing.
My PhD dissertation was a highly theoretical model representing computer systems that were framed as a mathematical model, and if they were interconnected in such a way that these interconnected computers would communicate like cells in the body.
A terrific cultural studies dissertation awaits on how the fortunes of the Cheneys provide a mirror on a changing America.
Today, he visits online forums and bombards them with dissertation-length comments.
In her dissertation, McFate had asked whether ‘good anthropology’ might lead to ‘better killing.’
Heritage has distanced itself from Richwine and his dissertation.
No single dissertation will alter the status quo on its own.
I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.
Dr. Pitcairn, published at Leyden his dissertation on the circulation of the blood through the veins.
Start not, reader, I am not going to trouble you with a poetical dissertation; no, no!
Dissertation sur les Assassins, Académie des Inscriptions, tom.
This dissertation, which is illustrated by several plates, will repay for the time spent in reading it.
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Ishares bitcoin trust.
Artificial intelligence isn't the only stock market catalyst to have caught Wall Street's attention.
Recently filed Forms 13F show that two high-profile hedge fund managers sold shares of Nvidia during the second quarter while reallocating capital to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ( IBIT -0.52% ) , an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks Bitcoin ( BTC -1.76% ) .
The trades made by Shaw and Cohen are noteworthy because both fund managers have credentials beyond their status as billionaires. D.E. Shaw and Point72 rank second and 13th, respectively, among the 20 best-performing hedge funds in history, according to LCH Investments.
That said, investors shouldn't interpret their trades to mean Nvidia is a bad investment, but rather, that portfolio diversification is important. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks like Nvidia could create substantial wealth over time, but the same is true of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Some Wall Street experts think Bitcoin (and consequently, the iShares Bitcoin Trust) could surge 83,000%.
Bitcoin entered the year at full steam. Its price had more than doubled in 2023, and the gains accelerated in early 2024 when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) approved the trading of spot Bitcoin ETFs on U.S. stock exchanges. Excitement surrounding the April halving event also contributed to the upward momentum.
Bitcoin hit a record high above $73,000 in March before stumbling when investors lost their appetites for risk. Economic uncertainty caused the sentiment reversal. Investors entered the year thinking the Federal Reserve would cut its benchmark interest rate by June, but policymakers have kept rates at their highest level in two decades.
The situation changed from bad to worse in early August. Recession fears resurfaced when a weak jobs report raised questions about whether the Federal Reserve was moving too slowly. That concern caused the stock market to plunge, and the cryptocurrency market suffered its worst sell-off since FTX collapsed in 2022.
Bitcoin currently trades at $59,000, about 20% below its March peak. But these Wall Street experts remain exceedingly bullish on the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin's price is a function of supply and demand . However, Bitcoin supply is limited to 21 million coins, meaning demand is the most consequential variable.
That's where spot Bitcoin ETFs could make a big difference. Those new funds eliminate traditional sources of friction by letting investors add Bitcoin exposure to existing brokerage accounts.
In other words, investors no longer need a separate account with a cryptocurrency exchange or have to pay exorbitant fees for each transaction. Several spot Bitcoin ETFs bear relatively low expense ratios . For instance, the iShares Bitcoin Trust charges an annual fee of 0.25%, so investors will pay $25 for every $10,000 invested in the fund.
By reducing friction, spot Bitcoin ETFs are bringing more retail and institutional investors to the market. For instance, the iShares Bitcoin Trust accumulated more assets during its first 50 trading days than any ETF in history, according to Eric Balchunas at Bloomberg. The fund also reached $10 billion in assets faster than any ETF on record, according to The Wall Street Journal .
That said, spot Bitcoin ETFs have a ways to go before reaching 5% of institutional assets under management (AUM), which is what Cathie Wood expects over time. Institutional AUM totaled $120 trillion last year, and 5% of that figure is roughly $6 trillion. Collectively, spot Bitcoin ETFs have less than $60 billion in assets right now.
Bitcoin miners earn block subsidies (newly minted Bitcoin) for solving the cryptographic puzzles required to verify transactions. But the payout is reduced by 50% every time 210,000 blocks are added to the blockchain. Those so-called halving events happen about once every four years, and the most recent one took place in April.
That is significant for two reasons. First, the halving event means miners will be minting less Bitcoin over the next four years, which will reduce one source of selling pressure simply because they have less Bitcoin to sell. Second, Bitcoin has gone through three halving cycles previously, and its price has always peaked 12 to 18 months later, as shown in the chart below.
Halving Date | Peak Return | Time to Peak Return |
---|---|---|
November 2012 | 10,485% | 371 days |
July 2016 | 3,103% | 525 days |
May 2020 | 707% | 546 days |
Source: Fidelity Digital Assets.
In short, history says Bitcoin will reach a new record high sometime between April 2025 and October 2025.
Past performance is never a guarantee of future returns, and investors shouldn't take the forecasts I've discussed for granted. I find the price target of $49 million (which implies an upside of 83,000%) absurd.
Additionally, Bitcoin is a relatively new asset class, so there's limited data available to make predictions about how it may perform in different economic climates. Bitcoin has also been very volatile throughout its short history. The cryptocurrency has declined more than 50% on several occasions and similar drawdowns are likely in the future.
Risk-tolerant investors comfortable with that possibility should consider investing a small percentage of their portfolios in Bitcoin, either by purchasing the cryptocurrency directly or through a spot Bitcoin ETF. I think investors should limit their exposure to 5% of invested assets.
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A vampire's worst fear.
Today's Wordle word begins with S.
Today's Wordle word ends with E.
Today's Wordle word contains 2 vowels.
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A 'stake' is a wooden or metal post with one pointed end which is usually placed in the ground to support a structure, plant or fence. 'High stakes' is a saying used to convey a risky venture or gamble.
Wordle has a built-in method of sharing your results in a spoiler-free way, so that those you sent it to don't see today's Wordle word itself, only the colours in your grid to show how well you did.
To share your Wordle results, simply complete (or lose) today's Wordle, and then wait a moment for the statistics panel to appear on your screen. Then tap the "SHARE" button.
On PC this will simply copy the text into your clipboard, so you can then paste the text anywhere you wish, whether it's a private message or a status update on social media. On iPhone or Android, when you tap the "SHARE" button you'll have the option either to copy to clipboard, or to share the results directly to another app on your phone (such as WhatsApp or Twitter).
Using the built-in sharing feature of Wordle is a much nicer way of sharing your results than potentially spoiling the answer to those who haven't yet had the chance to play today's Wordle themselves. So we highly encourage you to use it!
Wordle is wonderfully simple. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word within six guesses. After each guess, the letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they're in the correct place, yellow if they're in the wrong place, or grey if they don't appear in the word at all.
Using these clues you can start to narrow down the correct word. Head over to the Wordle site to try it for yourself!
Wordle began life as a little family game created by software engineer Josh Wardle. He created the game so that he and his partner could play a fun little word game together during the pandemic, and they quickly realised that there was something quite special in this simple little guessing game. So after a bit of refinement, Wardle released it to the public on his website, Power Language .
The game was released in October 2021, and by the end of the year the game had two million daily players. It became a viral hit, thanks in large part to the ease with which players could share their results in a spoiler-free manner on Twitter and other social media sites. In January 2022, Wardle accepted an offer from the New York Times to acquire Wordle for a seven-figure sum. Well done, Mr Wardle. Well done indeed.
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, "THIOL", or "CAIRD", or "MALIC" (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day's Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from "FETUS" to "SHINE", as the feeling was that the word "fetus" was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there's nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they're accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they'll never end up being the answer.
If Wordle is starting to get too easy, there are a few ways you can make the game more challenging for yourself. The first choice is to turn on Hard Mode. You can do this on the Wordle site by clicking the cog icon in the top-right of the screen. Hard Mode means that any highlighted letters must be used in all future guesses. This stops you from using the common tactic of choosing two words like "OUNCE" and "PAINS" to test all five vowels early on.
You can take it up another notch by playing by what we call "Ultra-Hard" rules. This means that every guess you enter must potentially be the answer. If you were just playing on Hard Mode, and you typed "MOIST", and the "O" appeared yellow, then nothing would stop you from making "POLAR" as your next word, even though it couldn't possibly be the answer because you already know the "O" is in the wrong place. If you play by "Ultra-Hard" rules, that's not allowed. You must adhere to every clue, and make sure every single word you enter is potentially the answer.
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites is Worldle , in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There's also Waffle , which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words; Moviedle , which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; and Quordle , which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
If you need some help with future Wordles, be sure to check out our list of the best Wordle starting words for the greatest chance of success. You can also check out our archive of past Wordle answers to see which words have been chosen previously.
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In high school, college, or graduate school, students often have to write a thesis on a topic in their major field of study. In many fields, a final thesis is the biggest challenge involved in getting a master's degree, and the same is true for students studying for a Ph.D. (a Ph.D. thesis is often called a dissertation ). But a thesis may also be an idea; so in the course of the paper the student may put forth several theses (notice the plural form) and attempt to prove them.
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in sense 3, Middle English, lowering of the voice, from Late Latin & Greek; Late Latin, from Greek, downbeat, more important part of a foot, literally, act of laying down; in other senses, Latin, from Greek, literally, act of laying down, from tithenai to put, lay down — more at do
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a(1)
the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children
thesis novel
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Synonyms of 'dissertation' in British English. dissertation (noun) in the sense of thesis. Definition. a written thesis, usually required for a higher degree. He is currently writing a dissertation. Synonyms. thesis. He was awarded his PhD for a thesis on industrial robots. essay.
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dissertation: 1 n a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree Synonyms: thesis Type of: treatise a formal exposition
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Dissertation definition: A lengthy, formal treatise, especially one written by a candidate for the doctoral degree at a university; a thesis. Dictionary Thesaurus
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Every day, Connections presents players with a grid of 16 words. The objective is to organize these words into four groups of four, based on shared themes or characteristics.
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Synonyms for THESIS: argument, contention, assertion, hypothesis, theory, guess, assumption, hunch; Antonyms of THESIS: fact, knowledge, assurance, certainty
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