ECR Spotlight – Anna Cressman

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

Anna M

So far studies on language comprehension adopting the embodied and grounded perspective have underlined the similarities between language and action. In line with the idea of neural re-use, this chapter shows that language reflects some characteristics of action organization, but also that it builds on these characteristics, and modifies them in sophisticated ways. In the first part evidence is...

Anna Pajor

Multivariate models of asset returns are very important in financial applications. Asset allocation, risk assessment and construction of an optimal portfolio require estimates of the covariance matrix between the returns of assets (see e.g. Aguilar and West (2000), Pajor (2005a, 2005b)). Similarly, hedges require a covariance matrix of all the assets in the hedge. There are two main types of vo...

ECR 2014, Part B

ECR 2014, Part A