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Varietal Thiols in Wine: Discovery, Analysis and Applications Aur elie Roland, R emi Schneider,* Alain Razungles, and Florine Cavelier* Interloire, 12 rue Etienne Pallu, BP 1921, 37019 Tours Cedex 01, France UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nologie, INRA, SupAgro, Universit e Montpellier I, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 01, France Institut Franc ) ais de la Vigne et du Vin, at UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nolo...

This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them to countries with sovereign monies by examining the criteria for Mundell’s concept of an optimum currency area. We find that members of currency unions are more integrated than countries with their own cur...

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de France. E-mail: [email protected] UPMC, 4, Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, Franc Laboratoire des Biomolécules, CNRS, UMR7 SMIS, Synchrotron SOLEIL Saint-Aubin, 91 DISCO, Synchrotron SOLEIL Saint-Aubin, 9 Department of Physics, University of Wisco USA CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1-IPB, CBMN U 33600 Pessac, France Laboratoire Friedel, Chimie ParisTech, CN C...

In our class project we have explored foreign exchange data. We analyze daily and hourly returns for the five major currencies, US dollar, Euro, Japanese yen, British pound, and the Swiss franc. The data can be best fitted by a q-Gaussian but we have not been able to model this behavior yet. We start investigating some traits of the distribution, like correlation and time dependence, to open th...