... overtook the waggons, and with the truncheon of a sword,
began to cut the drivers down. Some leaped from their places and
plunged into the wood; the others he sabred as they sat, cursing
them the ... with the horse trotting hard, and Dick running easily
alongside, they crossed the remainder of the fen, and came out upon
the banks of theriver by the ferryman's hut.
CHAPTER III - THE FEN ... canter,
the drivers flailing at the horses as if for life. These must have
run early in the day; but their cowardice was not to save them.
For just before they came abreast of where the lads...
... combine them element-wise. Specifically, if A and
B are the same size, then A.*B is the element-by-element product of A and B,
that is, the matrix whose i, j element is the product of the i, j ... returns the square of x.
z = x.ˆ2;
Typing sq(3) produces the answer 9, whether or not x or z is already defined
in your Workspace, and neither defines them, nor changes their definitions, if
they have ... Eigenvectors
The eigenvalues of a square matrix A are calculated with eig(A). The com-
mand [U, R] = eig(A) calculates boththe eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
The eigenvalues are the diagonal elements of the...
... but I answered their questions easily. Then,
on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They
asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, ... still until the great deep voice of the clock died away. Then there was
that same strange silence. Then there were those little light and quiet laughs. Then the
music began again. The dreams ... watched as the house burned down to the ground.
There was nothing left of the building the next morning. All the walls fell down during the
night, except one-a wall in the middle of the house....
... but I answered their questions easily. Then,
on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They
asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, ...
decided to hide the body in one of the walls of the cellar.
It was quite an old building, near the river, so the walls of the cellar were quite wet and the
plaster was soft. There was new plaster ... watched as the house burned down to the ground.
There was nothing left of the building the next morning. All the walls fell down during the
night, except one-a wall in the middle of the house....
... child deaths in the total
the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that
the vast majority of the drowning deaths in recent years in the region was ... FLOODS IN THE MEKONG DELTA
The Mekong River Delta, the
most downstream section of the
Mekong River, is known as the
"rice bowl" of Vietnam (Figure
1). Due to its location, the delta ... living in the urban areas, children in the rural area
are familiar with the water in rivers and canals. Their daily lives are linked with the rice
fields and flood plains. Some of them learn...
... the low
parts of the basin.
• Estimate the role of floods in the people’s lives; notice the effects to the women and
children in the flooded areas.
• Assess the environmental impacts of the ... find out the general rules of
the seasonal flows, forecast the relation between the warm atmosphere and the storms in
the tropical monsoon Asia.
• Survey and forecast the effects of the dams ... been built in the Mekong Delta.
Almost these water works were investigated by the national budget or the contribution of the
local people and government according to the motto: “Both the Government...
... also know the elements of the matrix B; this will be designated by the vector s
0
. The
second column in the grid can therefore be obtained by using the equation Ap
1
= s
0
. And so
the process ... start with the initial values at t = 0 and work across the grid towards the point (N, M).
But because of the simple way in which the u
n+1
m
only depend on the adjacent values to the
immediate ... method seriously. The last two methods tried to
overcome the biases which are inherent in the discretization of the time variable. However,
there is another approach: when using the approximation...
... σ
In general, the volatility of the forward price equals the volatility of the spot price; the volatility
of the futures price equals the volatility of the underlying stock if the interest rate ... sec-
tion tries to ease the reader’s burden of adapting the material to his own specific area of
interest.
In much of the forgoing, the market used to develop the theory was the equity market. This
was ... GREEKS FOR THEBLACK SCHOLES MODEL
so that
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Note that this is independent of φ so that is the same for a put or a call option.
(iv) Theta: The differential of theBlack Scholes...
... environment. The result has generated two ways for orga-
nising the field: the first focusing on the conceptual structure or ‘bones’ of the
subject, and the second drawing out the law’s role as a thematic ... institutions, they rarely (with the pos-
sible exception of the EU) provide an institutional framework that clearly defines
the scope of the community to which they are accountable above and beyond the
state.
6.2 ... illustrated in
the on-going ‘hormone dispute’ between the EU, on the one hand, and US,
Canada and Argentina, on the other hand. This dispute concerns the EU’s ban
on hormone-treated meat which the US,...
...
The Mekong Delta (MD) in Vietnam, located in the tropical monsoon zone, is formed by
the alluvium deposition of the Mekong River stretching from the border between
Cambodia and Vietnam to the ... tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9
million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as
the LongXuyen quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds. Along the 600 ... Wetland Bureau, the World Conservation Union, among others on the
classification of forest wetlands, the inventory and mapping of wetlands, the mapping,
and detailed description of the wetland
’s...
...
runoff, the amplitude of tides in the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the slope of the
river bed, the wind velocity and direction and the depth of the estuary. Salt water
intrudes the inland ... in Vietnam. The Delta in Vietnam is
bordered to the North by Cambodia, to the west by the Vam Co river, to the south by
the Eastern Sea and to the west by the Gulf of Thailand. The whole Delta ... 3,3 to 3.5 l/s.ha. They are
hydraulically operated by mixing flows from upstream rivers branches in the MD and
tides from the East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. In the fields, the farmers control...
... In the 5 months of the wet season, from May to
October, theriver discharges 2/3 the total annual flow. The rest amount of river
flow is distributed in 7 months, from November to May, of the ... cultivation but they are one of the
drinking water treatment problems also. The sediment load of theriver isnot so high if
compared with Red river in the North of Vietnam. It is highest during the rise ... are river
discharges, local rainfall and runoff, the tides and the depth of bars in the sea in front of the
estuaries. Otherwise, in early rainy season, nearly 1,6 million hectares of the delta...
... command on the Quick Access toolbar, select the command
from the list on the right and use the up and down arrows to the right of the
list to reorder the commands.
6. To remove a command from the Quick ... you turn
on the access keys, the H key will access the Home tab. Once on the Home tab, press-
ing the H key will access the Fill Color command, but if you had selected the Insert
tab, the H key ... activate a tab and then all the arrows to move through
the groups and commands.
• From the tabs, use the up arrow to move to the Quick Access toolbar.
• From the Quick Access toolbar, use the left arrow...
... can also minimize or dis-
play the To-Do Bar using the chevrons at the top of the window. These chevrons also
appear on the Navigation Pane on the left side of the screen and do a similar job, ... 6. Next, click the Publish button on the Ribbon at the top of the message window,
and then select Publish Form As.
7. In the Publish Form As dialog box, ensure the Look In drop-down list ... right-click RSS Feeds in the Nav-
igation Pane, and then select Add a New RSS Feed. In the New RSS Feed dialog box,
paste the link to the RSS URL into the text entry box, and then click Add. You will
see...