It is widely recognised that delta-hedged positions in options can be used to trade volatility. To facilitate volatility trading for their clients, several institutions routinely offer variance swaps. A variance swap is a financial contract that upon expiry pays the difference between a standard historical estimate of daily return variance and a fixed rate determined at inception. As in any swa...

Water and nitrogen losses from farmland during the snowmelt process play a vital role in water management cold regions. To explore mechanisms factors contributing to loss different sloping farmlands period, field experiments were conducted under two slope treatments (8° 15°), soil content (SWC) treatments, snow equivalent (SWE) (5 mm 10 mm) seasonal freezing agricultural watershed of Northeast ...

Of course, from childhood to forever, we are always thought to love reading. It is not only reading the lesson book but also reading everything good is the choice of getting new inspirations. Religion, sciences, politics, social, literature, and fictions will enrich you for not only one aspect. Having more aspects to know and understand will lead you become someone more precious. Yea, becoming ...

Articles 7 What Makes an Early Adopter? Transforming Landscapes One Farmer at a Time by Alicia Calle, MESc 2008 15 Ignorance or Exclusion? Forest Knowledge and Social Hierarchies in Community-Level Conservation in the Petén, Guatemala by Micha Rahder, MESc 2008 21 Conservation in Flux: Pursuing Social Resilience in Mozambique and Peru by James Leslie, joint MESc-MBA 2008 28 Understanding Stakeh...

BACKGROUND Because of the high concentration of oil refining and petrochemical facilities, the industrial area of the lower Mississippi River of South Louisiana has been termed the Industrial Corridor and has frequently been referred to as the "Cancer Corridor". AIMS To quantitatively assess the "Cancer Corridor" controversy based on mortality data available in the public domain, and to ident...

We introduce the Grassmannian G(k, V ) as a set, and via the tools of multilinear algebra, the Plücker embedding and the Plücker coordinates on G(k, V ). We also prove some basic theorems about the Grassmannians and attempt to familiarize the reader with some of the fundamental ideas and language needed to work with the Grassmannian and its subvarieties.

Homeopathy has a long history of successfully treating women and their health problems and is the preferred healthcare option chosen by a growing number of women. Gentle, fast, noninvasive, non-addictive and safe, homeopathy is the perfect option for the treatment of women’s healthcare problems. A number of studies have shown that women make up between 64 and 80% of the clientele visiting homeo...