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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... XVII. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XVIII. The Spectrum of Auctions XIX. Distributions to Partners and Shareholders XX. Moral Hazard and ... ...itations of technical analysis - it is a-theoretic and data intensive, pattern over-fitting can be a problem, its rules are often difficult to inter... ...ind that there is no difference in the level of skewness and coskewness of returns, probability of a crash occurring, or the frequency of crashes, w... ...of finance which revised the principles of political economy with a view solely to fitting the stock market's vagaries.'' But it ended thus: "(The ... ...te, the longer the time to maturity, the lower the strike price, and the higher the probability that the option will be exercised. All the paramete... ...echanics. For instance: strategies could have been described as wave functions with probability distributions. The same treatment could be accorded ... ...r instance: strategies could have been described as wave functions with probability distributions. The same treatment could be accorded to the cardi... ...s up delivering commercial, non-public, goods cheaply and efficiently. Return Distributions to Partners and Shareholders It is when the goin...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...bject that in writing about it one feels intrusive and presumptuous. So it is only fitting that this book is respectfully dedicated to Philip Kotler... ...lease somewhat, on the employment of conscientious and efficient workers. So it is fitting that a plan for marketing the idea of innovative manpower... ...culating handbills, brochures and flyers at church and social functions, timing the distributions to coincide with the need for increasing recruit en... ...nks second only to that of advertising books in print. For this book's purpose, a fitting defmition is: "behavior that consumers display in searchi... ...s been related in the consumer's mind to an issue, something important to him, the probability of this person's retaining knowledge of the product i... ...venience," nonrandom sample. Time constraints on the project precluded the use of probability sampling but non-response bias was diminished by obtai... ...s been related in the consumer's mind to an issue, something important to him, the probability of this person's retaining knowledge of the product i...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...itations of technical analysis - it is a-theoretic and data intensive, pattern over-fitting can be a problem, its rules are often difficult to inter... ..." - that in a sufficiently large population, every event has a finite and knowable probability. None of them can or will insure tiny, exceptional p... ...echanics. For instance: strategies could have been described as wave functions with probability distributions. The same treatment could be accorded ... ...r instance: strategies could have been described as wave functions with probability distributions. The same treatment could be accorded to the cardi... ...sly, the highest ranking (smallest ordinal) preference should have had the biggest probability attached to it – or could be treated as the collapse...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...nd is now distributed over all the earth, the present must be one of many like distributions? If moving glaciers from the north once swept over all Eu... ... joined with Spain, deep sea soundings now fail to show any such island or the probability of there having been one. The Islands of the Azores were al... ...generally for a period of three months, during which time he was lavish in his distributions among the poor who hovered about the camp. EXTRAORDINARY ... ...andard, sword and shield, a lad near the King held a golden cup into which, at fitting seasons, royalty expectorated; a priest of the highest dignity ... ...ookout at every suspicious turn; in great caravans, whose numbers preclude the probability of bandit interference or whose armament would render hosti... ...y irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled passion. Even the noble Colu... ... then raised, as if in confirmation of this solemn cession of sovereignty. The probability is that the real intention of the King was, by such investm... ...land wielded as a maritime nation, and the liberal appropriations made for the fitting out of his ships, and the peerless abilities which Cook brought...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

... thanks to M. de Conde, and express to him my gratitude for the honor he has done me.” Raoul bowed. 17 Dumas “On what day will his majesty arrive?” c... ...cretion, or rather indiscretion — the unknown penetrated through the crowd, then ascended to the court, and came to the landing of the staircase lead-... ...iage in which you will see two ladies, and prob- ably their attendants likewise.” “Sire, I should not wish to make a mistake; is there no other sign b... ...nnot think how delighted I am.” “Thus you see,” said D’Artagnan, “Charles II. receives M. Monk at nine o’clock; he will receive me at ten; it is a gra... ...s.” “Ah, ah! you are acquainted with her?” “We are affianced, or nearly so.” “That is quite another thing, then; a thousand compli- ments,” exclaimed ... ... appear- ance. The richest hangings and the thickest carpets, glis- tening flagstones and pictures, with their richly gilded frames; in every directio...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... In- quirer fought all his battles with Dulness and Darkness; here, in all probability, that he wrote this surprising Vol- ume on Clothes. Additional ... ...ious-persuasive Proclamation of such; specifying, in dis- tinct items, the distributions, circulations, disbursements, incomings of said moneys, with ... ...p, much more her darling, man? While thou stirrest and livest, thou hast a probability of victual. My breakfast of tea has been cooked by a Tartar wom... ...and whipped and hoodwinked sufficiently,—will sheathe themselves in close- fitting cases of Leather? The idea is ridiculous in the ex- 151 Thomas Car...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...xhibit those great qualities as greatly as he does, but only by intervaled distributions of rich moonlight, with stretches of veiled and dimmer landsc... ...h excruciating sufferings and venting himself in bitter moans, he was by a fitting punishment brought to his end. —(P . 400.) It was probably an allig... ...to London. Mr. Collier wrote to Lord Campbell to ask his opinion as to the probability of this being true. His answer was as follows: “You require us... ...besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the Mark T wain 227 young Shakespeare may have...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

... of shoes, hiding them under a great stone that had a hollow in it exactly fitting them; and went away making her only privy to it, and commanding her... ...ur lot and condition, we should rest contented, and accept it as right and fitting. They say, also, that the sitting after wor- ship was to be by way ... ...ely in the end succeeded. Numa’s muse was a gentle and loving inspiration, fitting him well to turn and soothe his people into peace and justice out o... ...he common people, jaded and distressed with the war, he relieved them with distributions of public moneys, and ordained new divisions of subject land.... ...le of Rome, from their unseasonable and impetuous clamor for largesses and distributions of corn, he began thus to harangue them: “It is a difficult t... ...governors and magistrates; but greatness of family, riches, profuse gifts, distributions, and personal application were what the city looked to; keepi... ...n the courage of these, and disciplined the others, who then first, in all probability, knew what a true com- mander and governor was; whereas in form...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...ppidas. Now the succession belonging to Agis by law, Agesilaus, who in all probability was to be but a private man, was educated according to the usua... ...hority was at an end. Lucullus expostulated by friends, and it was thought fitting that there should be a meeting betwixt them; and accordingly they m... ...ey could not but acknowledge, and allow his judgment of what was right and fitting to have been wiser and better than theirs. The splendor and magnifi... ...ayers interpreted rather in flattery to him, than according to the natural probability. He dreamed that he saw the Macedonian phalanx all on fire, and... ...t could learn nothing of certainty concerning it, further than that in all probability it seemed to him to be an arm issuing from the lake of Maeotis.... ...surest guard, and entertained them again with public feasting, and general distributions of corn; and to gratify his army, he sent out colonies to sev... ...s of spirit, neither bear- ing up with courage against popular outcry, nor fitting his body for action, but suffering it to languish through mere slot...

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

...respect of magnitude, because it is (what the very name in Greek hints at) fitting expense on a large scale: this term is of course relative: I mean, ... ...ommanding a trireme is not the same as that of giving a public spectacle: “fitting” of course also is 89 The Ethics of Aristotle relative to the indi... ...ly. The Magnificent man is like a man of skill, because he can see what is fitting, and can spend largely in good taste; for, as we said at the commen... ...and the Just involved in it, one species is that which is concerned in the distributions of honour, or wealth, or such other things as are to be share... ...t to bring home to one’s self the joys and sorrows of many: because in all probability one would have to sympathise at the same time with the joys of ...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

... trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them. First, the wages of labour... ...thly, the wages of labour in different employments vary ac- cording to the probability or improbability of success in them. The probability that any p... ...in the neighbour hood of Rome, must have been very much discouraged by the distributions of corn which were frequently made to the people, either grat... ...e of what is used is considered as equal only to the labour and expense of fitting it for use, and can, therefore, afford no rent to the landlord. In ... ...uperabundant, the part made use of is worth only the labour and expense of fitting it for that use. It affords no rent to the landlord, who generally ... ...s of goods in proportion to that of others, we can infer, with a degree of probability that approaches almost to cer- tainty, that it was rich or poor... ...d corruption, the bounty of the candi- dates, together with the occasional distributions of coin which were ordered by the senate, were the principal ...

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