Stochastic analysis, stochastic systems, and applications to finance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Allanus Tsoi, David Nualart, George Yin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464515603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore, : World Scientific, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-43395-8; 9786613433954; 981-4355-71-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TsoiAllanus Hak-Man <1955->; NualartDavid <1951->; YinGeorge <1954->
• Disciplina: 332.0151922
• Soggetti: Finance - Mathematical models; Stochastic systems; Stochastic analysis; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "It is an expanded version of papers presented at the first Kansas-Missouri Winter School of Applied Probability, which was organized by Allanus Tsoi and was held at the University of Missouri, February 14 and 15, 2008"--P. vii.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Stochastic analysis and systems -- pt. 2. Finance and stochastics.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book introduces some advanced topics in probability theories - both pure and applied - is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the analysis of stochastic dynamical systems, in terms of Gaussian processes, white noise theory, and diffusion processes. The second part of the book discusses some up-to-date applications of optimization theories, martingale measure theories, reliability theories, stochastic filtering theories and stochastic algorithms towards mathematical finance issues such as option pricing and hedging, bond market analysis, volatility studies and asset trading m

The bride and the dowry [[electronic resource] ] : Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the aftermath of the June 1967 War / / Avi Raz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452584603321
• Autore: Raz Avi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-77218-2; 9786613682956; 0-300-18353-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 438 p. ) : maps
• Disciplina: 956.046
• Soggetti: Arab-Israeli conflict - 1967-1973; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue. Two Peoples, One Land -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One. The Two Options: 5 June- Early July 1967 -- Two. The Jerusalem Syndrome: Late June- July 1967 -- Three. In Search of Docile Leadership: July- September 1967 -- Four. The Right of No Return: June- September 1967 -- Five. An Entity versus a King: September- November 1967 -- Six. A One- Way Dialogue: December 1967- January 1968 -- Seven. Go- Betweens: February- Early May 1968 -- Eight. The Double Game Redoubled: Mid- May-October 1968 -- Nine. "The Whole World Is Against Us": Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had something concrete to offer its Arab neighbors: it could trade land for peace. Yet the political deadlock persisted after the guns fell silent. This book sets out to find out why.Avi Raz places Israel's conduct under an uncompromising lens. He meticulously examines the critical two years following the June war ; and substantially revises our understanding of how and why Israeli-Arab secret contacts came to naught. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British, and UN archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Raz dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arrives at new and unexpected conclusions. In short, he concludes that Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective because its leaders preferred land over peace with its neighbors. The book throws a great deal of light not only on the post-1967 period but also on the problems and pitfalls of peacemaking in the Middle East today.

The hagiographical experiment : developing discourses of sainthood / / edited by Christa Gray, James Corke-Webster

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795278503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 90-04-42133-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; ; Volume 158
• Disciplina: 229.925
• Soggetti: Christian hagiography - History and criticism; Christian literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of ; the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods".