Dimensional Fund Advisors (abbreviated as DFA or Dimensional) is an investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Santa Monica, Sydney, and Vancouver. The company was founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield, both graduates of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The company benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolio against the S&P 500 Index, Consumer Price Index, MSCI EAFE Index and the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.

DFA's objective is to "deliver the performance of capital markets and increase returns through state-of-the-art portfolio design and trading." The company's board of directors includes Myron Scholes who won the Nobel Prize for economics. The late Merton Miller, another Nobel laureate, was also on the board of directors, as was Robert C. Merton before he became the company's Resident Scientist. Other directors include leading economists such as George Constantinides, Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, and Roger G. Ibbotson. DFA hosts a forum where Eugene Fama and Kenneth French express their opinions on topics related to finance and current events. This website is called the Fama/French Forum.

Gerald L. Curtis (September 18, 1940- ) is an American academic, a political scientist interested in comparative politics, Japanese politics and U.S.-Japan relations.

Curtis has been the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University since 1998. Between 1974-1990, Curtis was head of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Gerald Curtis, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 40+ works in 80+ publications in 5 languages and 5,000+ library holdings.

Professor Curtis became a special advisor to Newsweek when the magazine's Japanese language edition was initiated in 1986. When the political events or changes became the news of the day, the editorial staff incorporated Curtis' analysis. The New York Times also incorporates the analysis.

Curtis' current professional activities are varied:

Curtis' was formerly involved in the following:

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Curtis' work across the span of his career has garnered recognition:

Koichi Nakano (中野 浩一, Nakano Kōichi^?) (born November 14, 1955 in Kurume, Fukuoka) of Japan is a former professional racing cyclist and ten-time world champion track racing cyclist. He is among the best track sprinters of modern times. He won an unprecedented 10 consecutive professional sprint gold medals at the UCI track world Championships from 1977 to 1986. He was one of the most successful competitors of all-time on the Japanese professional keirin circuit.