‘On strike! Shut it down!’ An Interview with Helene Whitson on the San Francisco College Strike and Strike Collection

Resident doctors on strike.

‘Non sibi sed omnibus’. Not for one but for all. This is the overriding principle in the mind of all doctors while practising their vocation. The care and welfare of patients are the primary considerations of the medical profession. Seldom do you see a doctor who prioritizes his interests before those of his patients. If patient care is the issue, he will disregard any amount of inconvenience c...

Starfish on Strike

This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs “a = −1” twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2× Z/4, Z/8, or Z/6 and having a known non-torsion point; demonstrates that, compared to the curves used in previous ECM implementations, some of the new curves are more effective at finding smal...

To strike or not to strike.

On the Lookback Option with Fixed Strike

The lookback option with fixed strike in the case of finite horizon was examined with help of the solution to the optimal stopping problem for a three-dimensional Markov process in [1]. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate another derivation of the solution in [1]. The key idea is to use the Girsanov change-of-measure theorem which allows to reduce the three-dimensional optimal stopping p...

The Right to Strike