A new kind of option called hereafter a Parisian barrier option is studied in this paper This option is the following variant of the so called barrier option a down and out barrier option becomes worthless as soon as a barrier is reached whereas a down and out Parisian barrier option is lost by the owner if the underlying asset reaches a prespeci ed level and remains constantly below this level...

A conventional hairpin-line resonator size is normally very large. The folded hairpin line resonator filters are compact, small sized and simple to design and fabricate. This paper presents a new class of folded hairpin line microstrip resonator filters with 40-50% reduction in size compared to the conventional hairpin line resonators. The proposed double-fold hairpin line microstrip filters ar...

Poor counter traction and poor field of vision make endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) difficult. Good counter traction allows dissections to be performed more quickly and safely. Position change, which utilizes gravity, is the simplest method to create a clear field of vision. It is useful especially for esophageal and colon ESD. The second easiest method is clip with line method. Counter ...

Today’s processors provide a rich source of statistical information on program execution characteristics through hardware counters. However, traditionally, operating system (OS) support for and utilization of the hardware counter statistics has been limited and ad hoc. In this paper, we make the case for direct OS management of hardware counter statistics. First, we show the utility of processo...

Existing techniques for identifying working set sizes based on miss ratio curves (MRCs) have large memory overheads which make them impractical for storage workloads. We present a novel data structure, the counter stack, which can produce approximate MRCs while using sublinear space. We show how counter stacks can be checkpointed to produce workload representations that are many orders of magni...

1. I will be arguing from data on vowel shifts in progress, and from principles of language change, that language specific phonetic implementation rules must be part of speaker knowledge, and thus part of language acquisition. Then, I will sketch an abstract model of what phonetic implementation could be like. Having argued these points, I will address how this approach interacts with phonologi...

The nearest-neighbor method is perhaps the simplest of all algorithms for predicting the class of a test example. The training phase is trivial: simply store every training example, with its label. To make a prediction for a test example, first compute its distance to every training example. Then, keep the k closest training examples, where k ≥ 1 is a fixed integer. Look for the label that is m...

In this document we describe Counter Mode (CM) and its security properties, reviewing relevant cryptographic attacks and system security aspects. This mode is well understood and can be implemented securely. However, we show that attacks using precomputation can be used to lower the security level of AES-128 CM below the recommended strength for ciphers if the initial counter value is predictab...

a gas permeation model (coupling model) has been developed which has the flexibility to be used for different membrane module configurations. the aim of this work is to predict the performance of a single stage gas separation process using membranes and provide a comprehensive description of process parameters like flow rates, composition, stage cut and stream pressure. the significant feature ...