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Showing 1 to 20 of 1361 for “"contingent"”.
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Curvature Contingent Color Aftereffects.
This paper will deal with curvature contingent color aftereffects (AE), a development from the pattern contingent aftereffects reported by Celeste McCollough (1965). After McCollough’s findings are described briefly, the relative importance of spatial frequency characteristics in inducing AE will …
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RAROC-Based contingent claim valuation
… dissertation investigates the valuation of a contingent claim based on the criterion RAROC, an abbreviation of Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital. RAROC is defined as the ratio of expected return to risk, and may therefore be regarded as a performance measure. RAROC-based pricing theory can …
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Pricing interest rate contingent claims
… extends the previous work on interest rate contingent claims in several ways. First, futures pricing models and futures options pricing models are derived. These models are under the settings of both single state variable and two state variables. The derivations make use of regular …
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Contingent [re]occupations : residual urban morphologies
This thesis aims at establishing a dialogs between urban algorithms and individual space in Boston's Back Bay. Using the vehicle of typology as a basis, unit alteration and reprogramming are explored as urban systems. The design implications of introducing these altered forms of domestic morphology …
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Essays on assets and contingent commodities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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SIMPLE AND CONTINGENT CHROMATIC AFTEREFFECTS IN PIGEONS
… to assess whether pigeons acquire simple and contingent chromatic aftereffects, four White Carneaux pigeons were trained to discriminate between colored and achromatic slides: Right and left key-pecks were reinforced following exposure to colored and achromatic slides, respectively. The …
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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism
… accepted methodology -- I show that MTN is contingently true. </p> <p>In chapter 3, I argue for what I’ll call the ‘Nomological Account of Objecthood’ or ‘NAO’ for short. If I’m right, NAO gives us answers to the SCQ and the Simple Question, which asks what the necessary and jointly …
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The semantics and metaphysics of contingent identity
… considers how we ought to understand a thesis of contingent identity if it is to accomplish the work it is proposed to accomplish while at the same time avoiding certain obvious and otherwise persuasive objections. I begin by presenting a metaphysical thesis I call the Thesis of Contingent …
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Using contingent valuation data to simulate referendums
… question from two perspectives. First, using contingent valuation data for water quality in the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania, an analysis is performed to test for differences in responses across four different formats of the willingness-to-pay question. This analysis shows that …
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A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO CONTINGENT MUSIC FACULTY EXPERIENCES
<p>The increasing reliance on short-term or contingent faculty reflects a shift away from tenure-track positions. Tenure-track faculty reduction is significant in academic disciplines such as music. This qualitative narrative inquiry study explored the professional experiences of contingent music …
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ATTENDING TO LEARN WHILE LEARNING TO ATTEND: RECIPROCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INFANT ATTENTION AND CONTINGENT CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
… during interactions with adults and that adult contingent responding influences infant attention during the interaction. This dissertation examines reciprocal relations between infant attention and social contingency as well as the associations each have with infant language. This study utilizes …
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Diversity as Contingent: An Intersectional Ethnographic Interrogation of and Resistance Against Neoliberal Academia’s Exploitation of Contingent Faculty in General Education Diversity Courses
… academia has increasingly relied in under-paid contingent faculty to carry its teaching workload. During this same time, neoliberal academia began to take up ‘diversity’ as a way to sell its brand. This dissertation stands at the crux between diversity branding and the exploitation of contingent …
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Pricing of contingent claims under the real-world measure
The aim of this thesis is to price contingent claims under the real-world probability measure. Real-world pricing results naturally by selecting the numeraire as the growth optimal portfolio (GOP). Under this approach, the existence of an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure is not required. …
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Stochastic Volatility Models for Contingent Claim Pricing and Hedging
The present mini-thesis seeks to explore and investigate the mathematical theory and concepts that underpins the valuation of derivative securities, particularly European plainvanilla options. The main argument that we emphasise is that novel models of option pricing, as is suggested by Hull and …
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Optimal designs for dose-finding in contingent response models
… failure functions. In particular, we study the contingent response models of Li, Durham and Flournoy (1995). In the contingent response model, there are two opposing types of failure. We call one failure type toxicity and the other disease failure, short for failure due to disease. No disease …
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Effects of Contingent Employment History on Labor Market Outcomes
Despite a recent growth in contingent employment (i.e., non-permanent employment status), few studies have assessed the effects of holding a series of contingent positions on an individual's subsequent career. This research investigated the effects of contingent employment history on an …
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Bridging labor markets : a grounded theory of contingent work
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
This dissertation considers portrayals of overlooked and undervalued figures who have been rendered structurally peripheral within contemporary art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive …
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