The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approximates return as a linear function of beta.

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In a study presented last month at the annual meeting of the ADA, UT Southwestern researcher Ildiko Lingvay said two types of more aggressive treatments using insulin and drugs started when patients were initially diagnosed effectively preserved the function of beta cells in a study of 58 patients followed for three years.

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While a 2006 French study found that people with diets high in beta-carotene had a slower decline in lung function over an eight-year period, heavy smokers and drinkers may not benefit.

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But these are still solvable requirements: make the labor market more fluid, allow people to expose their skills development more publicly, teach people to package their business experience better, make people better developers of their own narrative, better managers of their core problem solving skills rather than their exact implementation skills, accept we are constantly in beta mode, and teach people, quickly, to function in conditions of unprecedented uncertainty.

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