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    SHADES OF YESTERYEAR

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    Is the Middle East on a path to regional war? One hundred years after the conclusion of World War I, many of the same factors the preceded wars in Europe seem to be in place in the region today: increased arms sales, social and political unrest, and increasing conscription. This paper examines the similarities and differences between the Middle East today and the Europe of 1914. It also analyzes key variables to develop scenarios that could lead to peace or war in the region

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    thesisDuring the course of the last ten to fifteen years the vaguely perceived social changes, caused by the terrific impact of the Great World War upon Europe and the world in general, began to crystalize into perceptible form - into definite movements which made themselves well known and keenly felt among the nations of the earth. In this period one finds the rise and strengthening of totalitarian movements, such as Communism, Fascism and Naziism, together with all their many ramifications. Naturally one is not surprised to discover counteractions and buffeting tendencies of democratic governments, which also in this period began to crystalize into protective programs against the onslaught of these powerful forces. During the last three or four years, and especially at the present time, the totalitarian states have come into open conflict with the democracies in their demand for increased world power. One of these states in particular has been and still is making itself felt in the world with no small degree of impact and drive. That state is Nazi Germany, which under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, is determined to increase its boarders If not by peaceful means, then by violence and war. One of the earlier conquests of Nazi Germany, although accomplished without actual warfare, was the gradual breakdown and the final occupation of the democratic Republic of Czecho-Slovakia during 1938-39

    Pursuing design excellence: Urban design governance on Toronto's waterfront

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    Toronto Daily Mail. Essex Supplement. March 5th 1892

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    The town of Essex: historical and descriptive sketch of the settlement ; page 3 missing.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/1073/thumbnail.jp

    Nonperturbative corrections to moments of the decay B -> X_s l^+ l^-

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    We study nonperturbative corrections to the inclusive rare decay B -> X_s l^+ l^- by performing an operator product expansion (OPE) to O(1/m_b^3). The values of the matrix elements entering at this order are unknown and introduce uncertainties into physical quantities. We study uncertainties introduced into the partially integrated rate, moments of the hadronic spectrum, as well as the forward-backward asymmetry. We find that for large dilepton invariant mass q^2 > M_{\psi'}^2 these uncertainties are large. We also assess the possibility of extracting the HQET parameters \lambda_1 and \bar{\Lambda} using data from this process.Comment: 24 pages, revtex, 4 figures, added an appendix with details, results unchange

    Toronto Daily Mail. North Essex Supplement. January 2nd 1892

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    Supplement describing Essex County (Ontario).https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/1072/thumbnail.jp

    VALUING CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS I: NO COUNTERPARTY DEFAULT RISK

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    This paper provides a methodology for valuing credit default swaps when the payoff is contingent on default by a single reference entity and there is no counterparty default risk. The paper tests the sensitivity of credit default swap valuations to assumptions about the expected recovery rate. It also tests whether approximate no-arbitrage arguments give accurate valuations and provides an example of the application of the methodology to real data. In a companion paper entitled Valuing Credit Default Swaps II: Modeling Default Correlation, the analysis is extended to cover situations where the payoff is contingent on default by multiple reference entities and situations where there is counterparty default risk
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