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Bang, beep, buzz, blip: Introducing Pure Data
Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical data-flow environment for multimedia, created by Miller Puckette of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD. It’s a fun, versatile and intuitive environment providing high-level ...
Networking audio
With the installation of the Music Department’s new SSL mixing console and the founding of the New Zealand Music Industry Centre (NZMiC), there are exciting new possibilities for sound production and performance at Otago, ...
Analyst forecasts in New Zealand
This study explores analyst annual earnings forecasts in New Zealand. The results show that forecasts of New Zealand firms do not suffer from the pessimistic biases found in studies of forecasts for United States firms. ...
An explanation of unbiased expectations and efficient market hypothesis using Markov switching framework
This paper uses Indian stock futures data to explore unbiased expectations and efficient market hypothesis. Having experienced voluminous transactions within a short time span after its establishment, the Indian stock ...
Indigenous Legal Traditions: Looking at ways to reconcile aboriginal law and common law. A practical and principled approach.
It is rather late in the day to say that customary law and aboriginal law does not form part of the common law system in the twenty-first century. The adoption by the United Nations of the Declaration of Indigenous Rights ...
Keeping research data safe
Most researchers will create or acquire numerous sets of data during their career, but the sad reality is that many of these data sets are not managed systematically. This was not such an issue when data sets were relatively ...
Volatility prediction during prolonged crises: Evidence from Korean index options
This paper examines KOSPI200 index option prices in order to investigate whether index option implied volatilities foreshadowed the 1997 economic crisis in Korea. Results indicate the absence of strong fears of an impending ...
Explicit vs. implicit contracts: Evidence from CEO employment agreements
We report evidence on the choice between explicit (written) and implicit contracting for a sample of agreements between CEOs and their firms. Fewer than half of S&P 500 CEOs have explicit contracts. Evidence on the ...
Modeling the bid/ask spread: On the effects of hedging costs and competition
The need to understand and measure market maker bid/ask spreads is crucial in evaluating the merits of competing market structures and security designs. Prior studies of bid/ask spreads suffer from several forms of ...
The RepRap Project—Open Source meets 3D printing
Abstract: The RepRap Project is an open source hardware and software project headed by Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath with the goal of producing a low cost ‘rapid prototyper’ or 3D printer i.e. a machine that can ...