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Ian Willis deposited The Camden District was a field of dreams in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article contributes to understanding regionalism by using a case study of the Camden district.
It is now hard to imagine now, but in days gone by, the township of Camden was the centre of a large district. The Camden district became the centre of people’s daily lives for over a century and the basis of their sense of place and community i…[Read more] -
David Lee deposited Asian Futures Option Valuation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAverage rate or Asian options have a payoff function proportional to an average rate or price. The average price is calculated over a sampling of specified dates that need not be equally spaced in time. The average price or rate tends to be less volatile than a single underlying price and hence, an option on the underlying average price should be…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Cerebrospinal meningitis in the Colonial History of the Asante of Ghana in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and
how the presence…[Read more] -
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited A Discourse on Individuals Value for Herbal Medicine in Asante since the Pre-Colonial Era in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis study highlights the transitions that indigenous medicine and indigenous medical practices have undergone in Asante. It uses a qualitative approach anchored on both primary and secondary sources. The primary data sources include interviews and documentary data derived from reports in historical archives. Anchored on rational choice contingent…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited विपाशा का कविता अंक: हिमाचल के साहित्यिक इतिहास की झलक in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoहिमाचल प्रदेश के भाषा एवं संस्कृति विभाग की पत्रिका विपाशा का अप्रैल – अगस्त 2022 अंक हिमाचल की हिंदी कविता पर केंद्रित था। यह उस अंक की प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखित समीक्षा है।
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David Lee deposited Power Swap Valuation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe article discusses valuation models for the following products: power financial indices swap contracts (PWR-SWAP), power financial transmission rights contracts (PWRSWAP- FTR), power physical delivery contracts (PWR-PHYS) and power physical transmission contracts (PWR-TR-SPREAD). All products have similar valuation structure – index swap (or s…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin – Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis paper provides a background on the life and times of Graeme Clark, a founder of the area of biomedical engineering and the cochlear implant, who grew up in the small town of Camden, NSW.
The life and times of Professor Graeme Clark, the pioneer of the Cochlear Implant, are part of the Camden story. He was a local boy who made good, improved…[Read more] -
David Lee deposited Double Window Barrier Option Valuation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe offer a hybrid (trinomial tree plus semi-analytic formulas) pricing method for FX Double Window Double Barrier option . Currently, the model uses spot implied volatility for the first time window, and forward implied volatility for the second time window. These are Black-Scholes implied volatilities from traded vanilla European options, but,…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Unlock Camden, a local history festival in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article contributes to the story of festivals and their importance to local communities in New South Wales.
In September this year, a local history festival, Unlock Camden, was held in the community of Camden at
the beginning of History Week. In its fifth year, the festival has aimed to unlock the stories and images
of the local area and…[Read more] - Load More