Limiting Options

Options for Limiting CO2 Emissions from Passenger Cars

Instalment Options: A Closed-Form Solution and the Limiting Case

In Foreign Exchange Markets Compound options (options on options) are traded frequently. Instalment options generalize the concept of Compound options as they allow the holder to prolong a Vanilla Call or Put option by paying instalments of a discrete payment plan. We derive a closed-form solution to the value of such an option in the Black-Scholes model and prove that the limiting case of an I...

Short break and emergency respite care: what options for young people with life-limiting conditions?

BACKGROUND Service providers face difficult decisions about how best to develop services for the increasing numbers of young people with life-limiting conditions who require palliative care. OBJECTIVE To explore alternative short break and emergency respite care options to children's hospice care. METHODS A two-phase evaluation with young people, families and professionals. Phase 1: qualita...

Limiting and Withdrawing Life Support in the PICU: For Whom Are These Options Discussed?

OBJECTIVES Most deaths in U.S. PICUs occur after a decision has been made to limitation or withdrawal of life support. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of children whose families discussed limitation or withdrawal of life support with clinicians during their child's PICU stay and to determine the factors associated with limitation or withdraw...

Limiting Embedding

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n This is a fol low-up o f our paper [3], where we establish that l i~(l _ s) f~ fn lf(x) f(Y)lPd~ d p ~ yld-77;~p y ~ IIVSIIL~(.), for any p E [1, oo), where f~ is a smooth bounded domain in lRd,d > 1. On the other hand, if 0 < s < 1, p > 1 and sp < d, the Sobolev inequality for fractional Sobolev spaces (see, e.g., [1], Theorem 7.57 or [6], Sect ion 3.3) asserts that (...