BACKGROUND Modern urban populations exhibit considerable internal heterogeneity. Several social groups, such as ethnic minorities or immigrants, constitute individual clusters with different demographic and epidemiological characteristics. METHODS Death records were collected from the Municipality Registry between 1999 and 2008. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was conducted for (i) natively bo...

We derive and analyze Monte Carlo estimators of price sensitivities (“Greeks”) for contingent claims priced in a diffusion model. There have traditionally been two categories of methods for estimating sensitivities: methods that differentiate paths and methods that differentiate densities. A more recent line of work derives estimators through Malliavin calculus. The purpose of this article is t...

This article traces Pasolini’s engagement with Aeschylus Oresteia and the concept of “irrational,” through which he sought to excavate patterns ideological resistance in classical past. I argue that translations adaptations ultimately failed achieve his desired ambition forward an fit for proletariat, whose words might spark new kinds Marxist thought. However, there is value reading into practi...