The Risk and Return Characteristics of the Buy Write Strategy on the Russell 2000 Index Using data from January 18, 1996 to November 16, 2006, we construct and evaluate returns on a buy-write strategy on the Russell 2000 index. The results demonstrate that the strategy has consistently outperformed the Russell 2000 index on a risk adjusted basis, when implemented with one month to expiration ca...

This publication calls for ambitious and bold action from governments, the private sector regulators. Development of technologies will require new regulatory frameworks to support immediate commercialization. Policy should also incorporate legally binding commitments increased international technology transfer, harmonized standards, definitions ‘green’ hydrogen, energy efficiency, conservation....

In this paper, we address challenges of organizing future-oriented consultation processes within European coordination tools for ‘Open Method of Coordination’ – such as ERA-NETs – which are promoted by the European Commission towards the establishment of the European ResearchArea. Specifically, we report experiences from a recent consultation process that was organized withinWoodWisdom-Net (ERA...

Abstract— We evaluate the effects of mobility and reservations on new call blocking and handoff blocking We evaluate the effects of mobility and reservations on new call blocking and handoff blocking in multirate wireless networks. The model evaluated uses Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) with priority for handoffs over new call arrivals by reserving a number of channels for handoff calls in all ...

The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 called for new standards to be set in the health industry. These standards included new privacy and security laws along with more administrative reform. In the long run, these new standards are supposed to save the healthcare industry time and money. One of the security standards calls for encryption of all digital data in both t...

| We evaluate the eeects of mobility and reservations on new call blocking and handoo blocking in multirate wireless networks. The model evaluated uses Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) with priority for handoos over new call arrivals by reserving a number of channels for handoo calls in all the cells. The performance measures used are new call blocking and handoo drop probabilities. The methodolo...

Distributed Petri net simulations are still a challenge. A speed up of simulation can be reached, if large applications are distributed over several computers executing a common simulation. Besides technical implementation hinderances, concepts to implement the inherent simulation algorithms in a distributed manner are often missing. Former Renew simulations have been coupled via asynchronous m...

Monitoring system calls made by an application is useful for debugging, for diagnostics as well as for security applications. Existing tools for monitoring system calls either suffer from a large runtime overhead, or require root permission to change the kernel of the operating system. We propose an approach that tackles both of these issues. We implemented a tool that runs completely in user s...

Medicine is an ever changing science and more so are neurological sciences with breathtaking developments occurring on a day to day basis. Technological advances have helped us understand and diagnose diseases better. With the advent of various MRI techniques, neurology has received a face change. Newer diagnostic tests have come and helped us diagnose hitherto unknown diseases. Latest drugs ha...