ISTB: An Attractive Play On Lower Rates

ISTB is therefore a play on the front end of the yield curve, with rates being the main risk factor. The option adjusted ...

More than a manger: How Mumbai’s Christmas cribs speak to the present

Mumbai: Each Christmas, the city's churches, homes, and gaothan squares are temporarily sublet to the Holy Family. Depending ...

XEMD: Emerging Markets Gem, But Spreads Are A Bit Tight

BondBloxx JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets 1-10 Year Bond targets U.S. dollar-denominated EM sovereign and quasi-sovereign ...
IEEE

Refractive Index Measurements of Ethanol–Water Binary Liquid Solutions Using a Graded-Index Fiber Tip Sensor

Abstract: The refractometric analysis of ethanol–water mixtures is hampered because this type of binary solution does not present a linear behavior. In this letter, a multimode graded-index fiber (GIF ...
IEEE

An Optimal Two-Step Decoding for PSK-Modulated Noisy Index Coding

Abstract: This paper studies noisy index coding problems over broadcast channels. The codewords from a chosen binary index code of length N are mapped to a $2^{N}$ -PSK constellation before being ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Live Oak Tree Has Withstood the Ravages of History

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...