Asian options are averaging options where the terminal payoffs depend on some form of averaging prices of the underlying asset over a part or the whole life of the option. Averaging options are particularly useful for business involved in trading on thinly traded commodities. These types of options are used by traders who are interested to hedge against the average price of a commodity over a p...

We show that binned differential luminosity functions constructed using the 1/Va method have a significant systematic error for objects close to their parent sample’s flux limit(s). This is particularly noticeable when luminosity functions are produced for a number of different redshift ranges as is common in the study of AGN or galaxy evolution. We present a simple method of constructing a bin...

The general equation of state which was found for dense fluids, both compressed liquids and dense supercritical fluids, namely "Linear Isotherm Regularity," is extended to the lower density range, specifically for densities lower than the Boyle density. This new equation of state which is called "ELIR" is shown to be compatible with the equations of state based on statistical-mechanical the...

To be successful in inclusive classrooms, middle school students need effective note-taking skills to learn lecture content. Unfortunately, students with disabilities perform poorly at recording critical lecture content in notes and perform poorly on subsequent tests. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a note-taking technique, called strategic note-taking, on the ...

If the charm quark is sufficiently heavy, then lattice NRQCD is an efficient computational method for obtaining the spectrum of mesons with a single charm quark. Recent studies of the S and P-wave meson spectrum have determined the contributions from first, second and third order in the inverse charm mass expansion.[1,2] Second and third order contributions were found to be statistically insign...

A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of Z was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic Z-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics is readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank one action determine the ...

Quasar-galaxy associations, if they result from the effect of gravitational lensing by foreground galaxies, depend sensitively on the shape of the quasar number counts. Two kinds of quasar number-magnitude relations are predicted to produce quite different properties in quasar-galaxy associations: the counts of Boyle, Shanks and Peterson (1988; BSP) provide both positive and “negative” associat...

Second dielectric virial coefficients BZ(T) of the rare gases Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe are calculated in a broad range of temperature using accurate HFD-type interatomic interaction potentials and available information on the trace of the pair polarizability Aa. It is shown that the experimentally determined temperature-variation of BC(T) cannot be reproduced by existing theories. However, it is obse...

A.M. 8h30-9h00 Mot de bienvenue / Welcome remarks Trevor Drew, directeur du GRSNC Luc Vinet, recteur de l'Université de Montréal Pierre Boyle, vice-doyen à la recherche et aux études supérieures, Faculté de médecine John Kalaska, directeur de l'équipe en voie de formation en neuroscience computationnelle des IRSC Neural strategies for optimal processing of sensory signals. The dynamics of visua...

S05-01 Polycomb repressive complexes are required to maintain compact chromatin structure at Hox loci Ragnhild Eskeland, Duncan Sproul, Graeme Grimes, Shelagh Boyle, Martin Lieb, Clemence Kress, Nick Gilbert, Helle F. Jorgensen, Amanda G. Fisher, Arthur I. Skoultchi, Anton Wutz, Wendy A. Bickmore 1 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2 Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, V...