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Forward Premium Puzzle
Financial liberalizations in recent decades have prepared the way for the rapidly increasing number of studies related to the investigations of foreign exchange market efficiency in developing economies via testing for the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition. Chapter 1 provides a survey on …
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Forward with separation logic
… for program verification, known as backward and forward reasoning. Separation logic, an extension of Hoare logic, finds countless applications in the areas of program verification, but the requirement of frame calculation when using it as an assertion language for specifications limits …
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Forward viewing OCT endomicroscopy
A forward viewing fiber optic-based imaging probe device was designed and constructed for use with ultrahigh speed optical coherence tomography in the human gastrointestinal tract. The light source was a MEMS-VCSEL at 1300 nm wavelength running at 300 kHz sweep rate, giving an effective A-line rate …
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Reducing forward buying through derivatives
… of speculative inventory, commonly known as "forward buying", through the use of derivatives options, similar to those used on commodities exchanges. The reinforcing cycle of overbuying on promotion, which leads companies and industries into inescapable cycles of capacity excess & shortage, is …
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Integral Transhumanism: The Holistic Leap Forward
Transhumanism champions the emerging use of biotechnological enhancement to perfect our biologically-based human limitations. This study evaluates both the contemporary bioethical discourse on enhancement, and the transhumanist movement itself, in light of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory of …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
<p>Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability …
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Canonical correlation of shipping forward curves
… and interrelations between the main shipping forward curves are analyzed using multivariate statistics after removing the volatility distortions dictated by the Samuelson hypothesis. Principal Components Analysis and Canonical Correlation analysis were used to demonstrate how the task of …
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both experimental and econometric evidence of the model's relevance to behavior, …
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Paramedic Flourishing at Work: A Way Forward
The field of paramedicine is a complex and unique work environment. The paramedic profession is ever evolving to the needs of the community, facing increased challenges compounded by the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health care system. Paramedics are exposed to acute and chronic …
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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History
… allows for testing the efficacy of an artifact-forward research method, Prownian analysis, as a means of studying such objects. Through this case study, I discover the rich potential in highlighting dimmed design histories through subsidizing the more formal, close looking of an artifact-forward …
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Arbitration law in Qatar: the way forward.
Qatar is among the fastest growing developing countries in all fields. Since the State of Qatar gained independence from the United Kingdom, the Qatari government has been focusing on the formation of state institutions to keep pace with global development. In 1971, Qatar released the first civil …
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A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy
<p>Privacy is a fluid and ever-evolving concept, studied across multiple fields and with numerous definitions. Privacy research in information systems (IS) is extensive yet has not traveled far beyond the IS realm and fully engaged in the broader conversations being had with regards to privacy. …
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Thalamocortical forward modulation in the auditory cortex
… paradigms in testing the neurophysiology of forward masking (i.e., forward suppression) is that tones are processed at every auditory center, meaning the recorded activities do not represent the pure characteristics of the recorded site. Thus, there is a great need for a specialized protocol …
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Topographic mappings and feed-forward neural networks
… some element of geometric structure - with feed-forward neural networks. As an alternative to established methods, a transformational variant of Sammon's method is proposed, where the projection is effected by a radial basis function neural network. This approach is related to the statistical …
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Forward-Backward Methods for Mixed System Dynamics
… One such simplified treatment is the derivative Forward-Backward Semiclassical Dynamics (FBSD) method. FBSD has an important limitation in that its description of the dynamics of quantum systems is accurate only for short times, since the method proceeds by assigning quantum weights to classical …
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Forward buying of non-commodity consumer goods
… examines the feasibility of commodity-like forward and futures markets in non-commodity consumer goods. Benefits of information gleaned from the sale of products for future delivery are examined, as well as the market for wine futures, which serves as an example of a non-commodity futures …
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