Should I Become a Personal Image Consultant? Personal image consultants help their clients develop and project a desired image through grooming, clothing selection and, in many cases, training in etiquette and self-presentation. Some travel may be required for this job; you may visit clients' homes or guide them in making appropriate purchases during shopping excursions.
Alpha complementation is a method for bacterial screening that have been transformed with a plasmid vector, carrying the N-terminal coding sequence for Î²-galactosidase of the lac operon. The lac Z gene is required for galactosidase metabolism.
Alpha is a measure of the active return on an investment, the performance of that investment compared to a suitable market index. An alpha of 1% means the investment's return on investment over a selected period of time was 1% better than the market during that same period, an alpha of -1 means the investment underperformed the market. Alpha is one of the five key measures in modern portfolio theory: alpha, beta, standard deviation, R-squared and the Sharpe ratio.