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Slow science for fast archaeology

Current Swedish Archaeology, 2019
This contribution contends that, with the recent genetic revolution, archaeology has reached a new scientism, a development that could lead to fewer opportunities in the epistemology of archaeology to think difference.
Marko M. Marila
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Multitask Learning of Negation and Speculation using Transformers

International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, 2020
Detecting negation and speculation in language has been a task of considerable interest to the biomedical community, as it is a key component of Information Extraction systems from Biomedical documents.
Aditya P. Khandelwal, Benita Kathleen Britto   +1 more
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“Professional trading”, exchange rate risk and the growth of international banking: a note

PSL Quarterly Review, 2013
The movement from fixed to floating exchange rates led to predictions that foreign exchange markets might become more volatile. In particular, the issue whether speculation in the market was stabilising or destabilising was widely debated.
P. CALLIER
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Real estate speculation: volatile social forms at a global frontier of capital

Economy and Society, 2020
This paper provides an anthropological perspective on speculation in housing by using the idea of ‘social form’ as the analytical lens. Instead of seeing speculation as a matter of individual orientation to risk/profit, or as a statistical tendency in a ...
C. Humphrey
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Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla’s ups and downs in financialised capitalism

Finance and Society
This article explores the puzzling ups and downs of Tesla, going through one the most volatile stock market swings of the recent past, under conditions of financialised capitalism.
Tobias Klinge, Stefan Ouma, Reijer Hendrikse   +2 more
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Pricing Kernels and Risk Premia implied in Bitcoin Options

Risks, 2023
Bitcoin Pricing Kernels (PKs) are estimated using a novel data set from Deribit, the leading Bitcoin options exchange. The PKs, as the ratio between risk-neutral and physical density, dynamically reflect the change in investor preferences.
Julian Winkel, Wolfgang Karl Härdle
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The Impact of Speculation on Commodity Prices: A Meta-Granger Analysis

Journal of Commodity Markets, 2020
This paper uses Meta-Granger analysis to explain and summarize the mixed results in the literature on the impact of financial speculation on commodity prices.
T. Wimmer, Jerome Geyer‐Klingeberg, Marie Hütter, Florian P. Schmid, A. Rathgeber   +4 more
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Mediated Futures in Anesthetic Space

Media Theory
Media are intimately connected to the future. They are simultaneously posited as encouraging speculation and foreclosing futures. Through an examination of the “canal craze” at the turn of the twentieth century in which the telescopic lens was believed ...
Piotr M. Szpunar
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Speculative somatics [PDF]

Technoetic Arts, 2015
Abstract Based on a presentation at The Undivided Mind conference at Plymouth University, this article sketches out speculative applications of somatics, the first person, phenomenological study of sensation, perception and movement.
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A study to explore the motives of investors to invest in derivative markets: A PLS-SEM approach

Financial Internet Quarterly
The objective of the study is to explore the motives of investors to invest in derivative markets. It is a quantitative study where a survey method was used to collect data from the investors using a probability sampling method.
Sanghvi Manisha, Sharma Pankaj, Chandani Arti   +2 more
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