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FLESH DOLL Exploring Sex Dolls and Objectification Of The Female Body
No full text(Statement of Responsibility) by Precious Darling(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2023(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.Faculty Sponsor: Buyssens, Rya
Interaction between precious metals price and Islamic stock markets
No full textOriginality/value - The author would like to emphasize that this article is second to examine precious metals and Islamic stock markets in literature
FLESH DOLL Exploring Sex Dolls and Objectification Of The Female Body
No full textAs a woman, I am acutely aware of the historical and societal preconceptions that have shaped the way women experience their own sexuality. Through my art, I seek to challenge these expectations and reclaim agency over my own sexual narrative. Using sculpture, videography, and installation, I explore the physical and cultural dimensions of the female body. This is done in part by juxtaposing live, naked models with inanimate objects and materials traditionally associated with femininity and sexuality, whether busts, fabric, or blow-up dolls. Through these combinations, I aim to question and subvert conventional notions of what it means to be a desirable woman. By prioritizing the female gaze in my art, I disrupt the traditional power dynamic between male artists and their female muse
Precious metals as the monetary phenomenon in the history
No full textThe bachelor thesis focuses on the history of the precious metals in monetary economics. Firstly, a function of the precious metals in monetary standard is introduced together with related prerequisities for an economic development. The thesis deals merely with monetary standards connected mainly with gold and silver. In the next part, a historical period between years 1944 -- 1976 concerning monetary standards is depicted and also this period is assessed from the economic point of view. The final part of the thesis analyses contemporary precious metal market. The author starts with a basic description of the precious metal market and also with its current tendencies and subsequently proceeds to a practical use of the analysis in creating appropriate investment strategy
Modelling and analysing risk in precious metals
No full textThesis (Ph.D.(Statistics))--University of the Free State, 2018The prices of precious metals are volatile and financial market participants are interested in knowing the downside of holding precious metals in their portfolios. Risk management tools such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) are highly dependent on the underlying distributional assumption. Identifying a distribution that may best capture all the aspects of the given financial data can provide immense advantages to both investors and risk managers. In the analysis and modelling of financial returns, there are stylised facts that are observed. These include volatility clustering, heavy-tails, asymmetry, conditional heavy tails and long range dependence (long memory). In this study, we investigated the stylised facts of gold, platinum and silver returns. We thus propose models that are able to capture their empirical features. The models capture extreme tails of profit and loss distributions and improve the estimation of Value-at-Risk (VaR) of precious metal prices returns. Firstly, we evaluate the performance of existing heavy-tailed and flexible distributions in modelling extreme risk for precious metal returns. The heavy-tailed and flexible distributions used are: Generalised Hyperbolic Distributions (GHDs), Generalised Lambda Distribution (GLD), Stable Distribution (SD), Generalised Pareto Distribution (GPD), Generalised Extreme Value Distribution (GEVD), Pearson type-IV Distribution (PIVD), Symmetrical Student-t Distribution (STD) and Skewed Studentt Distribution (SSTD). Secondly, we couple ARMA-GARCH models and ARMAAPARCH models with heavy-tailed and flexible distributions. We fit the models to precious metal returns and evaluate their relative performance in estimating Valueat-Risk (VaR) using a number of conditional assumptions. The proposed models performed favourably when compared with the APARCH models with a Student-t distribution and the APARCH models with a skewed Student-t distribution usually used in the literature. This provides financial analysts with an alternative distributional scheme to be used in economic modelling. Thirdly, because all daily precious metal price returns exhibit volatility clustering, heavy tails, asymmetry and long range dependence, we fit the long-memory GARCH models under the GHDs, the GPD, the GEVD, the SD, the STD, the SSTD, the GLD and the PIVD assumptions to our price return data. The Anderson-Darling test is used to check for model adequacy. Kupiec likelihood ratio tests and Christoffersen conditional coverage tests are also used in this study to evaluate objectively whether VaR model is adequate. The backtesting results confirm that the long-memory GARCH-heavy-tailed models are adequate for improving risk management assessments and hedging strategies in the highly volatile metal markets. ARFIMA-HYGARCH, ARFIMA-FIGARCH and ARFIMA-FIAPARCH models with PIVD, Normal-Inverse Gaussian Distribution (NIGD), full GHD, FMKL GLD and Generalised Hyperbolic Student-t Distribution (GHStD) innovations are found to be suitable for VaR estimation of precious metals, thereby providing a good alternative candidate for modelling financial returns
Geology, alteration and precious metal reconnaissance of the Nogal Canyon area, San Mateo Mts., N.M.
No full text1984 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.The Nogal Canyon area lies within the southern San Mateo mountains and displays epithermal, volcanic hosted precious metal occurrences in the San Jose and Quartz Hill districts and in the Aragon Hill area. The San Mateos represent an isolated, north trending, eastward tilted, structural block located in the northeastern portion of the Cenozoic Mogollon-Datil volcanic field. Mid-Tertiary, calc-alkalic andesites to high silica rhyolites and minor volcaniclastics dominate the lithologies exposed in the Nogal Canyon area. The Oligocene Spears Formation, the oldest unit present, consists of andesitic to latitic flows, breccias, and ash-flow tuff and sporadic volcaniclastic sandstone. The Hells Mesa rhyolite ash-flow tuff overlies the Spears Formation and is sequentially superimposed by the Unit of Luna Park which includes andesitic flows, dacite flow breccias, rhyolite tuff, and minor volcaniclastics. The majority of the upper felsic sequence exposed in the southern San Mateos consists of the Oligocene Vicks Peak Tuff, a thick, densely to partially welded rhyolite ash-flow tuff, and the overlying Springtime Canyon Quartz Latite. Younger porphyritic rhyolite intrusives, rhyolite flow-dome rocks, and intrusive breccia appear localized along major structural trends within the southern foothills of the San Mateo mountains. Major northeast and northwest trending, steeply dipping, normal faults crosscut the Vicks Peak Tuff and host "fissure type" precious metal occurrences in the San Jose district. Structural preparation relates either to the proposed Nogal Canyon cauldron or to mid-late Tertiary regional extensional tectonism. Hydrothermal alteration effects contemporaneous with precious metal mineralization consist of pervasive and veinlet silicification, pervasive intermediate arqillic alteration, and quartz-alunite replacement alteration. Silica alteration is strongly localized along fracture and breccia zones consisting of vein-infillings, pervasive wall rock alteration, and quartz network-stockwork type occurrences. The gangue mineral assemblage accompanying vein-infilling silicification includes adularia, sericite, calcite, pyrolusite, and cryptomelane. Intermediate argillic alteration consists of montmorillonite, montmorillonite-illite mixed layer, illite, kaolinite, and pyrite systematically zoned as reaction aureoles about major structures. Argillic alteration broadens beneath the Vicks Peak Tuff-Springtime Canyon Quartz Latite contact which acted as a permeability barrier to ascending hydrothermal solutions. Quartz-alunite alteration occurs as a really restricted, pervasive replacement deposits with accessory pyrite, specularite, kaolinite, and chalcedony. Mineralization accompanying vein-related silicification consists of native silver, native gold, cerargyrite, and pyrite and appears modified by supergene oxidation processes. Trace element studies indicate the mineralization exhibits low arsenic and antimony signatures and lacks base metal introduction at present erosional levels. A single hydrothermal episode which generated structurally confined boiling appears responsible for the development of hypogene alteration and insignificant silver-gold mineralization centered over the Nogal Canyon area. Precious metal occurrences at Aragon Hill consist of gold bearing, quartz-calcite-barite fracture fillings crosscutting the Aragon Hill intrusive breccia. Pervasive phyllic alteration, contemporaneous with breccia emplacement, occurs throughout the pipe-like intrusive breccia and concentrically envelopes the surrounding rhyolite flow-dome rocks. Phyllic alteration consists of sericite, montmorillonite-chlorite mixed layer clay, quartz, pyrite, and kaolinite products. The precious metal bearing fracture fillings probably represent leaching and minor metal deposition during the late waning stages of breccia emplacement, or possibly high level expression of epigenetic breccia-hosted silver-gold mineralization at depth
Precious metals as the monetary phenomenon in the history
No full textBakalářská práce upíná svoji pozornost na historii drahých kovů v peněžní ekonomii. Nejdříve je popsána jejich funkce v roli peněžních standardů a s tím související podmínky a předpoklady ekonomického vývoje. V rámci této práce jsou popsány a z ekonomického hlediska hodnoceny peněžní standardy spojené výlučně se zlatem a stříbrem. V další části je vykresleno období mezi lety 1944 - 1976 spojené s významnou rolí drahých kovů a hlavní prostor je zde věnován kritickému zhodnocení tehdejšího měnového systému. Poslední oddíl je zaměřen na analýzu trhů drahých kovů v současnosti, kde autor postupuje od popisu základních charakteristik a tendencí trhů zlata, stříbra a dalších kovů směrem k praktickému využití daných informací v rámci investičního rozhodování.The bachelor thesis focuses on the history of the precious metals in monetary economics. Firstly, a function of the precious metals in monetary standard is introduced together with related prerequisities for an economic development. The thesis deals merely with monetary standards connected mainly with gold and silver. In the next part, a historical period between years 1944 -- 1976 concerning monetary standards is depicted and also this period is assessed from the economic point of view. The final part of the thesis analyses contemporary precious metal market. The author starts with a basic description of the precious metal market and also with its current tendencies and subsequently proceeds to a practical use of the analysis in creating appropriate investment strategy
Information - how it gets precious?
No full textIn our Age of Information the term Information is one of the most used words. Some Information Scientists tried to find a common definition. PLOCHBERGER Franz (2012) tried to fix it in his "Information scientific Axioms". He used terms of Wolfgang HOFKIRCHNER or Raphael CAPURRO.
The author started a new research impact: „IT-Orientation towards Human Being". The aim of this research is to find out significant terms and to evaluate a scientifically usable paradigm under this surrounding topic. The orientation on human needs is necessary, because we have to make a difference between human cognitive information evolution (technological) and human biological evolution as species, which is much more slowly.
In chapter 4 human abilities to manage Information will be showed. In the chapters 5 and 6 the author tries to find topics and permanent valid Information scientific terms for the usage of Information in a precious way for human beings in future (e.g. in a rising amount of Data (Big Data) or moving Data with electronically speed on worldwide spread networks).
Information Science is not a narrow science; it touches Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Economy and System Sciences. These sciences contain all interesting theories.
The actual trend is that the changing’s of new Information-instruments (Desktop, Laptop, Smartphone or Mobile Touch Screens) seem to fascinate and stimulate customers. If we don't try to find scientific backgrounds we get in dependence of some worldwide single IT-companies with commercial interests only.
We have to ask: Do we know already the most important values in Information Science for future? Is it sure that IT-Orientation towards Human Being is able to surround the most precious parts of Information Science and to set definitive orientation points towards the human being? The orientation towards human being has borders – by human being. But no restrictions are definable in complexity towards the machine side
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