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Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg, Reto Meuli, Vincent Labiouse, Pierre Guillaume Christe

X-ray computed tomography (XRCT) can reconstruct, in a nondestructive way and in three-dimension, the distribution of densities within opaque materials. Consequently, it provides an effective possibility to characterize the inner content of rock core sampl ...

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Nowadays, the amount of multimedia contents is explosively increasing and it is often a challenging problem to find a con- tent that will be appealing or matches users’ current mood or affective state. In order to achieve this goal, an efficient indexing t ...

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Mutual fund portfolio choice in the presence of dynamic ﬂows

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We analyze the implications of dynamic flows on a mutual fund's portfolio decisions. In our model, myopic investors dynamically allocate capital between a riskless asset and an actively managed fund which charges fraction-of-fund fees. The presence of dyna ...

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Mutual fund competition in the presence of dynamic flows

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Variance Risk Premia in Energy Commodities

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The stability of the h-index

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Does information drive trading in option strategies?

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Query-driven indexing in large-scale distributed systems

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Efficient and effective search in large-scale data repositories requires complex indexing solutions deployed on a large number of servers. Web search engines such as Google and Yahoo! already rely upon complex systems to be able to return relevant query re ...

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An Extension of ETF Arbitrage to Sector Trading Using ANN

Utkarsh Upadhyay, Ramnik Arora

We design and deploy a trading strategy that mirrors the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) arbitrage technique for sector trading. Artiﬁcial Neural Networks (ANNs) are used to capture pricing relationships within a sector using intra-day trade data. The fair pric ...

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How compliant are developing countries with their TRIPS obligations?

Intan Maizurah Hamdan Livramento

This paper constructs an intellectual property rights (IPR) index based on the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement for 53 developing countries. TRIPS agreement attempts to standardize the minim ...

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