Executable frles in the Ninth Edition of the UNIX system contain small amounts of unused space, allowing small code sequences to be added to them without noticeably affecting their functional-ity. A program fragment that looks for binaries and introduces copies of itself into their slack space will transitively spread like a virus. It could, like the Trojan Horse, harbor Greeks set to attack th...

M. Heslop, Medieval Greece: encounters between Latins, Greeks and others in the Dodecanese Mani [ser. Variorum Collected Studies]; foreword by Jonathan HARRIS [xvi-xviii] (London & New York: Routledge-Francis Taylor Group, 2021)

This paper deals with the computation of second or higher order greeks of financial securities. It combines two methods, Vibrato and automatic differentiation and compares with other methods. We show that this combined technique is faster than standard finite difference, more stable than automatic differentiation of second order derivatives and more general than Malliavin Calculus. We present a...

This study sets out a new methodology to exemplify, through set of risk metrics called the Greeks, impact bond’s structured provisions (e.g., call, put, and conversion options) on its characteristics propensity for agency conflicts. The is assessed by applying it sample 159 non-convertible bonds, with time-scheduled call put issued between 1977 2005. A structural contingent-claims valuation mod...

The attitudes of the Greeks, a Mediterranean population, to the issue of telling the truth to the patient have been studied. There is no clear answer to the question: 'Do the Greeks wish to be informed of the nature of their illness?'. The answer is: 'It depends'. It depends on age, education, family status, occupation, place of birth and residence and on whether or not they are religious peopl...

While the term is new, many of the identities lumped under the genderqueer umbrella are not. “Androgyne” was originally synonymous with hermaphrodite (now considered a derogatory term for intersex individuals). As defined by Oxford Online, androgyne arose “mid 16th century (as a noun): via Latin from Greek androgunos, from anēr, andr‘man’ + gunē ‘woman’”. “The Greeks possessed a really astonish...