Context and question: The College's endowment is sub-divided into three distinct portfolios: (i) Unitised Scheme a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term; (ii) Non-Core Property a portfolio containing around 120 operational and developmental properties which College has determined are not core to the academic mission; and (iii) Strategic Asset Investments containing College's shareholding in Imperial Innovations and other restricted equity holdings. During the year 2014/15, the market value of the endowment increased by 78 million (18%) to 512.4 million on 31 July 2015.
What is a "Unitised Scheme"?
Answer: a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term
Context and question: These developments led to the theory of conservation of energy, formalized largely by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) as the field of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics aided the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Walther Nernst. It also led to a mathematical formulation of the concept of entropy by Clausius and to the introduction of laws of radiant energy by Jozef Stefan. According to Noether's theorem, the conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that the laws of physics do not change over time. Thus, since 1918, theorists have understood that the law of conservation of energy is the direct mathematical consequence of the translational symmetry of the quantity conjugate to energy, namely time.
What hindered the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes by Clausius, Gibbs and Nernst?
Answer: unanswerable
Context and question: The fossil record suggests that the last few million years featured the greatest biodiversity in history. However, not all scientists support this view, since there is uncertainty as to how strongly the fossil record is biased by the greater availability and preservation of recent geologic sections. Some scientists believe that corrected for sampling artifacts, modern biodiversity may not be much different from biodiversity 300 million years ago., whereas others consider the fossil record reasonably reflective of the diversification of life. Estimates of the present global macroscopic species diversity vary from 2 million to 100 million, with a best estimate of somewhere near 9 million, the vast majority arthropods. Diversity appears to increase continually in the absence of natural selection.
Why are some scientists uncertain about the diversification of life?
Answer:
unanswerable