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Analyzing Sequential Betting with a Kelly-Inspired Convective-Diffusion Equation [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy
The purpose of this article is to analyze a sequence of independent bets by modeling it with a convective-diffusion equation (CDE). The approach follows the derivation of the Kelly Criterion (i.e., with a binomial distribution for the numbers of wins and
Darrell Velegol, Kyle J. M. Bishop
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Finite time ruin probabilities with one Laplace inversion. [PDF]

open access: green, 2003
In this work we present an explicit formula for the Laplace transform in time of the finite time ruin probabilities of a classical Levy model with phase-type claims. Our result generalizes the ultimate ruin probability formula of Asmussen and Rolski [IME
Avram, Florin, Usábel, Miguel A.
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The destiny of Marghiloman’s wealth [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2022
In 1942, a trial of almost 15 years ended, in which it was proved that the judges were still dominated by the memory of Alexandru Marghiloman’s personality, as shown by the long terms granted and the agreement with the wife of the great missing person ...
Valeriu NICOLESCU
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Destroyed Statues, a Bolex 16 mm Camera, and an Old Jeep: The Traces of History in FLAT TYRE

open access: yesResearch in Film and History, 2022
The article explores the images of the statues captured in FLAT TYRE, in particular focuses on the meta-perspective presented by the director Ming-Chuan Huang, reflects on the creation of the images, and analyses how the film interprets the history of ...
Li-An Ko
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Drawing and Performing Exploration in Ruin Site

open access: yesDiségno, 2023
Concept of ruin is changed today. Building mass becomes a tool for terrorization of the body, it is a structure for the community's memory, and building becomes a place where working as witness is revelatory.
Şebnem Çakaloğulları
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‘Not Months but Moments’: Ephemerality, Monumentality, and the Pavilion in Ruins [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Arts Journal, 2014
This article examines a fundamental tension between ephemerality and monumentality in the history of pavilion architecture. Descended from the ancient tent, the pavilion was taken up by European landscape architecture in the eighteenth century ...
Ihor Junyk
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La nature et les ruines : anciennes présences humaines dans le récit climatique de science‑fiction

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2023
European modernity and romanticism have made the human ruin a symbol of the passage of time and the fall of civilizations. The motif persists durably in contemporary culture and in the archaeological imagination of most people.
Rémi Auvertin
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Another Image of 'Community' at the South End Museum [PDF]

open access: yesKronos, 2021
This paper considers some of the curatorial devices used in exhibitions at the South End Museum in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). The South End Museum, which opened on 3 March 2001, is modelled in several respects on the District Six Museum in Cape ...
Michelle Smith
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Une spatialité anti-moderne des ruines post-apocalyptiques. La figuration du rapport à l’environnement du film I Am Legend

open access: yesTerritoire en Mouvement, 2023
The film I Am Legend depicts a relationship between humanity and the environment that is both antimodern and eschatological. On the one hand, transforming the nature of things through urban artificialization and medicine promising immortality has created
Nathanaël Wadbled
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