The Rise in Cancer — Party 1

Video from: bigpicture.tv More great indy news media at coanews.org Within the last fifty years the incidence of cancer has grown to almost epidemic proportions. Nearly one in two American males contract some form of cancer. Professor Howard looks at the probable reasons behind this, pointing in particular to the rapid rise in chemical pollution. The use of chemicals by industry has grown exponentially since the Second World War (see clip 3, ‘Chemical Hygiene’). As a result we are led to absorb into our bodies many thousands of chemicals each year. Some of these are endocrine disrupters which interfere with hormonal activity — especially in fetuses.
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Google Tech Talks October 20, 2006 ABSTRACT First talk (joint work with Dr. Shijie Deng of GT) is a theory piece where we propose to create industrial exchanges for capacity trading via options contracts. In a continuous-time setting, we study the pricing of tradable capacity options contracts in business-to-business (B2B) exchanges in a variety of industries such as contract manufacturing, semiconductor (eg memory chips), oil and gas, electric power or commodity chemicals. The contract takes the form of European call option that specifies a premium price and a strike price. We show that the real options pricing formula is a modified Black-Merton-Scholes pricing formula and is equivalent to the…