Black Swans or Dirty Ducks? A Retrospective Challenge the Unchallenged It’s a duty of risk managers to challenge that which rests unchallenged. Nassim Nicholas Taleb did a great service by popularizing risk concepts in his book‚ The Black Swan . However‚ it is easy to get seduced by his enthusiasm‚ carried away by his pace and miss a few flaws. Over the last six years since it was published The Black Swan has been virtually unchallenged as a standard reference book. However‚ on closer examination
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1. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION 1.1 Course Details Course: The Enquiring Mind Coordinating Unit: School of History and Politics‚ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Period and Year: 1st semester 2014 Mode: Internal Level: First year Location: North Terrace Campus Units: 3 Contact Hours: 1 hour lecture and 2 hour seminar per week Lectures: Wednesdays 10.10pm Scott Theatre Quota: None Prerequisites: None
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AAT—Average Access Time AA—Anti-Aliasing AAA—Authentication Authorization‚ Accounting AABB—Axis Aligned Bounding Box AAC—Advanced Audio Coding AAL—ATM Adaptation Layer AALC—ATM Adaptation Layer Connection AARP—AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol ABCL—Actor-Based Concurrent Language ABI—Application Binary Interface ABM—Asynchronous Balanced Mode ABR—Area Border Router ABR—Auto Baud-Rate detection ABR—Available Bitrate ABR—Average Bitrate AC—Acoustic Coupler AC—Alternating Current
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An Inter-Vehicular Communication Architecture for Safety and Entertainment Abstract— Inter-vehicle communication (IVC) is emerging in research prominence for the interest that is generating in all major car manufacturers and for the benefits that its inception will produce. The specific features of IVC will allow the deployment of a wide set of possible applications which span from road safety to entertainment. Even if‚ on the one hand‚ these applications share the common need for fast
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REPORT ON ART GALLERY CONTENT Introduction An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art‚ usually visual art. In its most basic form what we call a gallery‚ has come to mean a collection of something. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects‚ however sculpture‚ decorative arts‚ furniture‚ textiles‚ costume‚ drawings‚ pastels‚ water colors‚ collages‚ prints‚ artists books‚ photographs‚ and installation art also regularly shown. Art
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Nature of Abstract Art Meyer Schapiro (1937) Before there was an art of abstract painting‚ it was already widely believed that the value of a picture was a matter of colors and shapes alone. Music and architecture were constantly held up to painters as examples of a pure art which did not have to imitate objects but derived its effects from elements peculiar to itself. But such ideas could not be readily accepted‚ since no one had yet seen a painting made up of colors and shapes‚ representing
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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY NOTES- Filled with silliness and inside jokes‚ enjoy at your leisure :) If something is in [] brackets‚ it is only written in there for our pleasure‚ ignore it if you are looking for actual information. • 7: The Renaissance and Reformation- 1350-1600 Key: UMSUniversal o Georgio Vasari- Rinascita=rebirth (like Renaissance) painter/architect Male Suffrage o Individualism: People sought to receive personal credit for achievements‚ unlike medieval ideal of “all glory goes to
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Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution‚[1] it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.[2] It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music
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Culture of France From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The culture of France and of the French people has been shaped by geography‚ by profound historical events‚ and by foreign and internal forces and groups. France‚ and in particular Paris‚ has played an important role as a center of high culture and of decorative arts since the seventeenth century‚ first in Europe‚ and from the nineteenth century on‚ world wide. From the late nineteenth century‚ France has also
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Computer Communications 36 (2013) 411–420 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Computer Communications journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom Effective channel assignments in cognitive radio networks Jie Wu a‚ Ying Dai a‚⇑‚ Yanchao Zhao a‚b a b Department of Computer and Information Sciences‚ Temple University‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19122‚ United States State Key Lab of Novel Software‚ Department of Computer Science and Technology‚ Nanjing University‚ PR China
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