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Volatility derivatives are today an important group of financial instruments. This book presents an overview of their major classes and their possible applications in investment strategies and portfolio optimization. Volatility is not constant so the book presents its term structure and its potential use in forecasting volatility.

The book is largely concerned with the history of Western culture of speed that forms the framework within which the phenomenon of slow living is placed. A comprehensive analysis of practices and representations of deceleration in everyday life - slow travel, slow London and slow lit - suggests the rise of a post-slow stage in the history of speed.

This work investigates the challenges of enforcement of patent rights in geographically divisible inventions. It is an inquiry into challenges posed by Internet to the established system of patent protection based on the territorial limitation of rights and focuses on substantive patent law, especially on the infringement provisions.

The study provides a holistic overview of intercultural teaching in English language education at Slovak primary schools, including analysis of the Common European Framework for Languages, reflections on the national curriculum, and investigations of teachers' attitudes and their teaching of intercultural aspects in the English language lessons.

This study analyses the design, use and performance of cost accounting systems in Anglophone subsidiaries in Germany. The empirical results suggest that management accountants and managers in these firms prefer to deviate from their parent companies' cost accounting traditions to ensure the information-usefulness of their cost accounting systems.

The papers in this volume embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England. The book gives a specialized stance on language change in Middle English at different levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in Dante Alighieri's poetic works. In detail it discusses two works, The Banqued and The Divine Comedy, and offers a view on politics, faith and the universe of the medieval period. The book is an attempt to interest the reader in medieval cosmological conceptions.

This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theology and philosophy. The emphasis falls on the connection between poetry and Logos, word and flesh in poetry from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The volume is a collection of articles on aspects of audiovisual translation. These include subtitling, dubbing, voice-over, accessibility for the hearing- and vision-impaired, as well as translation in advertising.

The publication concerns semiotics, aesthetics and musicology. It does so against the background of the unknown history of Czech experimental aesthetics and the context of semiotics, aesthetics and cybernetics of the 1960s under totalitarian rule.

The Islamic economic paradigm with its scientific Islamic economic theories have to be comprehensive as well as perfect in the sense of fairness, ethical values and fruitfulness. But are there universal Islamic economic systems with universally applicable economic laws acceptable by both, the Muslim and the non-Muslim world?

The book discusses a democratic legitimation for modern law. Debates on Europeanisation are taken into account. Ronald Dworkin's, Neil MacCormick's and Jurgen Habermas's standpoints on relations between the law and the public sphere are investigated. Concepts of self-reflexive polity, self-constitutionalisation, constitutional patriotism are analysed.

This book takes us through the ecumenical journey of the Mar Thoma Church from its earliest history. It moves through several posers on how the church opened up to external influences, while holding fast to its autonomy. It seeks to analyse critically the church's relation to Indian culture and caste affiliations.

Balancing the World is a collection of material from interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality in Guatemala. Nine interviewees talk about the work of the ajq'ijab, or daykeepers. They explain how they cure and avert illness, perform divinations, communicate with the ancestors and do their part in balancing the world.

The fourth Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook reassesses central concepts of modern constitutionalism between the poles of law and politics: separation of powers, constitutional review, and constitutional rights and obligations.

The Church of St Thomas Christians is the Apostolic Church founded through the apostolic ministry of St Thomas, the Apostle. Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church came into existence as a result of the colonial presence of the Europeans. Petrine ministry is the most important unresolved problem in the ecumenical dialogue.

The book applies the principles of textual interpretation, literary theory, comparative literature, archetypal criticism, intertextuality, and thematology to reveal the ways in which Louis de Bernieres in Captain Corelli's Mandolin rethinks and rewrites the monomyth of the hero and the quest to convey the deconstruction of the postmodern ideals.

This volume offers readers detailed account of the new politics of Global Academic Mobility and Migration. Bringing together leading scholars from Australasia and Europe, the volume explores the following key issues: mobility determinants, social injustice, management and administrative problems, as well as teaching-learning challenges.

This book provides university teachers, leaders and policymakers with insights on current works on assessing students' learning outcomes around the world. It is founded in research, shaped by policy and designed to be of enduring relevance to practice. Framed by a cycle of quality improvement, it discusses policy contexts and research concepts.

Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. This collection of papers illustrates the state of the art of C-Test research. C-Tests consist of several short texts in which the missing parts of words have to be reconstructed.

This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Over 1500 recipes and 100 verbs have been analyzed. They have been divided into three major groups: cooking, cutting, and preparing. Such aspects as their origin, rivalry of synonyms, contexts etc. have been taken into consideration.

The book offers an intercultural perspective on the work of Alice Munro, the Canadian 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. The texts are divided into reminiscences, literary interpretations, film and stage adaptations and comparative analyses. The contributors are academics and writers from Canada, Poland and France.

The concept of restorative justice, which focuses on extinguishing the social conflict caused by criminal offense, has been received with growing interest by both legislators and specialists throughout the world. This book answers the question to what extent the classic model of criminal justice is able to meet the challenges posed by that concept.

This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria, located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and imagined by students and teachers.

Massive usage of ICT and Social Media opens an unprecedented window into studying social phenomena, while allowing for quality of public services such as education to be considerably upgraded. The book covers some of the latest developments in this direction.

This book describes the development and argument-based validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for broad coverage of the construct by assessing metapragmatic judgment as well as the ability to co-construct discourse.

39 Beitrage erhellen das Thema aus verschiedenen Perspektiven: historisch, politisch-zeitgeschichtlich, ethisch, praktisch-theologisch und im aussereuropaischen Kontext. 39 contributions develop the theme from different perspectives: historical, contemporary political and ethical aspects as well as practical theology and in the context beyond Europe.

Exegesis of Lk 22:35-38 teaches us about the pragmatic mandatory mission strategy. It resolves the snag and puzzle of the appearance of the sword in the Gospels. To a Church that is persecuted, Jesus instructs the need to be prepared to defend the believers. It helps us to contextualize our theologizing the Word of God.

Translating audio description (AD) scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating AD scripts in those countries where AD is still scarce. The obtained results prove that translation of AD scripts is not only possible, but also beneficial when it comes to time consumption, costs and quality of AD.

The Bolivian revolution of 1952 aimed at modernizing the country. The first point of the analysis is the limited success the revolutionaries achieved. The second one is the alliance of the intellectuals and the workers, an alliance which happened in other revolutionary situations too, i.e. the Polish Solidarity Movement at the end of the 20th century.