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...hamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its major pitfalls before moving into what is postulated as an entropic notion of utility. Extrinsic utility is proposed as a cardinally measurable quantity; measurable in terms of the expected information content of a set of alternative choices. The ...

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...-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its major pitfalls before moving into what is postulated as an entropic notion of utility. Extrinsic... ...high-return assets e.g. stock index futures. At the end of the investment horizon the amount invested in the discounted zero-coupon bond yields the ... ...Clearly, the process is not quite as straightforward as a simple parameter estimation routine from an autoregressive process. Something does seem to ... ...icients a j provides an indirect but highly efficient method of spectral estimation. In a full nonlinear autoregressive model, quadratic (or higher... ...sts, likelihood ratio (LR) tests and Wald (W) tests. The LR test requires estimation of the model parameters both under H 0 and H A , whereas the ... ...tility from the financial structured product at the end of the investment horizon depends on how well the assets within the structure have been ‘man... ...te of return on the risk-free asset and T is the length of the investment horizon in continuous time and w is the initial wealth invested i.e. ignor...

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...nalities. Classic cost/benefit analyses fail to tackle very long term investment horizons (i.e., periods). Their underlying assumption - the oppo... ...ence. There is no effective method of cost/benefit analysis applicable to such time horizons. How are consumer choices influenced by advertising an... ...k model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizons. Volatility is especially high when both supply and dem... ...ely and unconditionally available for any business purpose. Insurance companies are moving resolutely to erase this distinction between on and off ... ...chool of Business, warned that - to quote from the same issue of Risk Magazine: " 'Estimation risk' plagues even the best-designed risk management ...

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...ed upon a Jersey shore; — to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a stead... ...nd some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is... ...hore, half a mile off, like the rest, covered with wood, was my most distant horizon. For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impresse... ...between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue. Indeed, by standing on tiptoe I could catch a ... ...goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion, — or, rather, like a comet, for the beh... ... stood before; and the fishermen, at an indeterminable distance over the ice, moving slowly about with their wolfish dogs, passed for sealers or Esquima...

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...m- ing more fitful and more excited—shadows of men and boats could be seen moving, while voices shouted: ‘There!’ ‘There again!’ ‘ A couple more strok... ...erhood.’ ‘In—deed!’ cried W egg. ‘Pleasant Riderhood. There’ s some- thing moving in the name. Pleasant. Dear me! Seems to ex- press what she might ha... ...g Of- ficer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work; I am not held in estimation according as I shirk it. My breast is softer than the pauper-nur... ...I should think,’ said Bella, hesi- tating, ‘a little lower you in your own estimation?’ Assenting with a movement of his head, though not at all looki... ... felt about it.’ ‘And how was that, do you mean to say, sir?’ asked Bella, moving again. ‘That if you were inclined to win her confidence—anybody’ s c... ... hopes, to you who are so much his friend, there is a distant break in his horizon.’ This figure of speech seemed rather mysterious to Fascina- tion F...

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...nsibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted. In Mrs. Dashwood’s estimation, he was as faultless as in Marianne’s; and Elinor saw nothin... ...ess, Lady Middleton sat down to Casino, and as Marianne was not in spirits for moving about, she and Elinor luckily succeeding to chairs, placed thems... ...room after breakfast, which sunk the heart of Mrs. Jennings still lower in her estimation; because, through her own weakness, it chanced to prove a so... ...ho had none at all; and the performers themselves were, as usual, in their own estimation, and that of their immediate friends, the first private perfo... ...ree times to say, “Yes, ma’am.” — She listened to her praise of Lucy with only moving from one chair to another, and when Mrs. Jennings talked of Edwa... ...e had soon afterwards good reason to think her object gained; for, on Elinor’s moving to the window to take more expeditiously the dimensions of a pri... ...try to the south east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen. I...

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...the windows, and a noise of voices came from the stables and servants were moving about, and dogs barked, and the dark gravel before the front steps w... ... them; as were also sundry other people, mostly of some note either in the estimation of the world at large or that of West Barsetshire. Lord Boanerge... ... grave considerations render such a course on her part improper in her own estimation. All the Lady Luftons of whom she had heard, dowager and ante-do... ...and an archdeacon. ‘I am delighted to see you, ’ said she. ‘No, don’t mind moving; I won’t sit down just at present. But why didn’t the arch- deacon c... ...ure of Lord Dumbello. He came in late, and at the moment Lord Dumbello was moving slowly up the room, with Griselda on his arm, while Lady Lufton was ... ... yes; some people, no doubt, have been amused. ’ ‘It is all vanity in your estimation, ’ said Miss Dunstable; ‘vanity and vexation of spirit. Well; th... ...face. Con- tinued sunshine indeed! A dark spot had already gathered on her horizon, which was likely to fall in a very water- spout of rain. What was ... ...returned to her seat saying nothing further. ‘Is not that a cloud on one’s horizon?’ continued her ladyship. ‘Do you think that I can be basking in th...

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...o had done well also, though in a much lesser degree, was still her child, moving in the same sphere of life with her, still dependent in a great degr... ...ld have given a finger to be able to white- wash Mr Crawley in the major’s estimation. Nor must it be supposed that she told the major in plain words ... ...hought how great was the pity that her daughter, who was ‘nice’ too in her estimation, should have had so few of those adjuncts to assist her which co... ...east prevented.’ The bishop, who was seated, fretted himself in his chair, moving about with little movements. He knew that there was a misery coming ... ...bove named, then Mr John Eames rose very high indeed as a young man in the estimation of those who knew him, and was supposed to be something a good d... ...t shall flow backwards and forwards as rapidly as you will.’ ‘I’ll keep it moving,’ said Johnny. ‘Do; there’s a good fellow. It’s a nice glass of wine... ...ly seen Major Grantly; and now the only bright gleam which appeared on her horizon depended on his constancy under circumstances which would have just...

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...his altitude, which has grown into a proverb, should have met with all due estimation 123 V olume Four in the eyes of Mrs. Lackobreath. But to return... ... the Automaton was in mo- tion, that is to say while the whole machine was moving on the castors, it appeared to us that certain portions of the mecha... ...pidity, the character of a gi- gantic mantle of rare flame, extending from horizon to horizon. Y et a day, and men breathed with greater freedom. It w...

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...that will turn with it men’s lives and fortunes, dimly foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, t... ...d avidity after effect, which tells us that the sloop disappeared over the horizon, and the head under the water, at one and the same moment? Monsieur... ...ssions, and the love verses that he wrote upon Clarinda are among the most moving in the language. We are approaching the solution. In mid-winter, Jea... ...hat a man who first attacked literature with a hand that seemed capable of moving mountains, should have spent his later years in whittling cherry-sto... ...found in his works, and after having been held forth to view and to public estimation as a man of some genius, yet, quite destitute of resources withi... ...r of their friendship, had he thought less of his own stand- ing in public estimation, and more of the dead woman. But he was in all things, as Burke ...

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...he letters of a sentence would be to write the words vertically instead of horizontally.” “Indeed!” said I. “Now we must see what would be the effect ... ...” said the professor, without reading them, “now set down those words in a horizontal line.” I obeyed, and with this result: Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe... ...liage, admiring the villas, each provided with a little bathing house, and moving about and grumbling, at last ten o’clock came. The heavy coils of sm... ...re live the merchants and traders, in wooden cabins made of red planks set horizon- tally; the other street, running west, ends at the little lake bet... ...to the street. Hans was finishing our pack- ing, almost as it were without moving a limb; and yet he did his work cleverly. My uncle made more noise t... ... boldly uprising, passed through the grey clouds, and reappeared above the moving mists, like breakers emerg- ing in the heavens. 61 Jules Verne Ofte... ...a moderately warm climate, for the theory of a central fire remained in my estimation the only one that was true and explicable. Were we then turning ...

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...they? Her thoughts took wings. “Oh, father!” she cried, looking out to the horizon. “Come back and make us rich and happy.” The answer which Ernest de... ...es Mignon remarked that time must be allowed for the soil, which was still moving, to settle and grow solid in a natural way. “Time, which has provide... ...,—all endeavoring to shine and to please. Suffer as Modeste may in general estimation, it must be told she subsequently ad- mitted that the sentiments... ...on one side the rich valley of the Seine toward Rouen, and on the other an horizon bounded only by the sea. “Butscha was right, God is the greatest of... ...ted, the royal hounds had sent it into the Crown forest which outlined the horizon directly in front of the chateau. The prince knew well how to sooth...

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...tleman and one push from the hostler; and off they were again. ‘Ah! we are moving now,’ said the old gentleman exult ingly. They were indeed, as was ... ...evertheless, as affording at once a touching and a convincing proof of the estimation in which he was held by every class of society, and the case wit... ...comprehend his meaning, or whether she found it colder standing still than moving on, of course I can’t say. But I can say that Tom had no sooner fini... ...ot and sultry, the sum mer lightning quivered faintly on the verge of the horizon, and was the only sight that varied the dull gloom in which everyth... ...I s’pose?’ said Sam drily. ‘Very, very, Sir,’ replied Mr. Trotter, without moving a muscle of his face. ‘But shake hands, Mr. Weller.’ Sam eyed his co...

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...r proportion of parish matters were one vast machine, of which she was the moving power. As she was a small spare woman, able to do with a very modera... ...uld gladly have lingered longer, but this was a very dull room in Fergus’s estimation, and perhaps Aunt Jane did not desire a long continuance of the ... ...each of Kitty and mamma, and the Christmas-trees that began to dawn on the horizon, than to be carried into an unknown region of ‘grown-ups.’ While Gi... ...o was half a year younger than his cousin, and being al- ready, in his own estimation, a Wykehamist, had endless ri- valries with him. ‘She! She’s not...

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...ard renown, Year after year he shambled through the town, — A loveless exile moving with a staff; And oftentimes there crept into his ears A sound of ... ...ow; For there are millions, and there may be more, To make in turn a various estimation Of its old ills and ashes, and the traps Of its apparent wrath... ...fering, So many of them to end as they began — After my sickening doubts and estimations Of plans abandoned and of new plans vain — After a weary delv... ...nd sleep for ever, I shall not care for that … Go!” Mary, moving Almost as if an angry child had pushed her, Went forward a few ste... ...o climb; And this is why, from time to time In Tilbury T own, we look beyond Horizons for the man Flammonde. 118 E.A. Robinson The Gift of God Blesse... ... small oblivion of component ashes That of a dream addicted world was once A moving atomy much like your friend here?” Nothing will help that man. To ...

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...nt, and quite as much letting him go on, and lower himself in her nephew’s estimation. The spectacle-case settled the matter—a, crack was heard, it re... ...oachably, and Laura felt and looked delighted at this sanction to the high estimation in which she held him. His own account of himself to Mrs. Edmons... ...hed on the stone steps, mouth open, tongue out, only his tail now and then moving, till he put back his ears and crested his head to greet the arrival... ...ing. Her numer- ous partners teased her by hindering her from watching him moving about the room, catching his tones, and guessing what he was talking... ... in too much bustle remark his daughter’s blushes. Even when the train was moving off, he still had his head out at the window, calling to Philip that... ...as winning for Guy, at an age when his merits could only be negative, that estimation which his own tried character had scarcely achieved, placing him... ...ow you the sunny sea,—the sense of breadth and vastness in that pale clear horizon line, and the infinite number of fields of light between you and it... ...a ruddy ball, surrounded with its pomp of clouds, on the dazzling sweep of horizon. That sight recalled him not only to himself, but to his true and b... ... that the last remnant of the sun’s disk was just disappearing beneath the horizon. The victory was won! But Guy’s feeling was not the rejoicing of th...

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...ome calm and tender voices that pro- duce upon us the same effect as a far horizon outlook? By his dress the dreamer knew him to be a priest, and he s... ...upon the man who had, all unknowing, given him comfort; on the threatening horizon of his future he saw a luminous space where shone the blue of ether... ...psis. The young man was floating between the promptings of despair and the moving voice of religious harmonies sound- ing in the bell of the cathedral... ... Godefroid reached the banking house and gave his name, he saw at once the estimation in which his father had been held; for he was ushered through th... ...n 1829, in the faubourg du Roule. My daughter cannot endure the fatigue of moving; I came near losing her when I brought her to Paris, and again when ...

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...t for Genevieve from St. Germanus, and they were thus reminded of the high estimation in which he held her; they became ashamed of their violence, and... ...den backs protected troops of workmen who tried to undermine the wall, and moving towers consisting of a succession of stages or shelves, filled with ... ...e the east- ern hills, and ere yet the red orb had fully mounted above the horizon, there was a burst as it were of tremendous thunderings, and the gr... ...nd through the Champ de Mars came slowly along, step by step, their horses moving as gently and cautiously as if they knew their work. Everywhere, as ... ... they were taken to the hospitals or to their homes. Martinel, who was the moving spirit in this gallant rescue, received in the fol- lowing year one ...

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...grandee, where this young lady of eighteen was first seen rising above the horizon. She had money and health and beauty, the triune of perfect starrin... ...laying it to his charge that her garden had become a place of nettles, her horizon an unlighted fourth side of a square. Clara passed from person to p... ...at it was coming to her, in the ter- rible struggle she foresaw within her horizon of self, now her utter boundary. She needed it for the inevitable c... ...cted to worship him and uphold him for whatsoever he might be, without any estimation of qualities: as indeed love does, or young love does: as she pe... ...ghby.” Crossjay drew himself up to give an imitation of the baronet’s hand-moving in adieu. He would not have done that had he not smelled sympa- thy ... ...at she was very little of a prize; a poor prize; not one at all in general estimation; only one to a man reckoning his property; no prize in the true ... ...d a stupid stare helped to pass the hours, and but for the spot of sadness moving meditation in spite of his effort to stun him- self, he would have b... ...h- out for the one imperishable moment publicly swinging in his lordship’s estimation:—much so, moved by chivalry to- ward a lady, courtesy to the rec... ...curately perceived it: for the reason perhaps that Willoughby had not been moving in his appeals: but, ad- mitting the charge of waywardness, she had ...

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...s thousands of people met him with excitement and enthusiasm. The army was moving from west to east, and relays of six horses carried him in the same ... ...lashev and the Emperor returning to the veranda, he stood still. They were moving toward the door. Boris, fluttering as if he had not had time to with... ...others was usually known to him, and by this means he rose higher in their estimation. THE UNEXPECTED NEWS of the French having crossed the Niemen was... ...te affairs with Alexander’s envoy. He dismounted, took Balashev’s arm, and moving a few steps away from his suite, which waited respectfully, began to... ..., but he even dreaded to recall them and them and the bright and boundless horizons they had revealed. He was now con- cerned only with the nearest pr... ...ll, but vertically now, and all was still. The whole sun ap- peared on the horizon and disappeared behind a long narrow cloud that hung above it. A fe... ... in a dense column: they were the reserve. Higher up the hill, on the very horizon, our guns were visible through the wonderfully clear air, brightly ...

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...re is, for instance, that of ‘The T wo T rav- ellers,’ which is profoundly moving in conception, although by no means as well written as some others. ... ...is life through, entertained a pas- sion for certain blue hills on the far horizon, and had prom- ised himself to travel thither ere he died, and beco... ...al favour. He believed in both with an energy of faith that was capable of moving moun- tains. And we have to remark in him, not the parts where inspi... ...r. Down a cross road on an English plain, a cathedral city outlined on the horizon, a hazel shaw upon the left, comes Madam Wanton dancing with her fa... ...blighting censure. At ev- ery sentence he overthrew an idol, or lowered my estimation of a friend. I saw everything with new eyes, and could only marv... ...limbing himself, but by pushing others down. He has grown great in his own estimation, not by blowing himself out, and risking the fate of Æsop’s frog... ...ght over against the girl the last red embers of the sunset burned un- der horizontal clouds; the night fell clear and still and frosty, and the track... ...ady lighted: light shone hospitably in the windows and from the open door; moving lights and shadows testified to the activity of servants bear- ing l...