As you'd expect, there's an enormous spread of research on offer, ranging from exercise routines to maintain health during long-duration space missions, to the prospects for life on Titan, and the risk of miscarriage for flight attendants exposed to cosmic radiation.
But only in the name of science – for a new study of how slang expressions spread on Twitter could offer insights into a more general question in linguistics: how language changes and evolves.
Dynamically arranged text, which appears under flaps, within attached mini-books or artfully spread on the page, offers a curated guide to the city: Human hair is used on the wax models at Madame Tussauds.
Actually, the market in CDS for the companies listed on the main American and European stockmarkets is very liquid, with narrow spreads on bid offers and dealing sizes of a minimum of $10m upwards in most cases.
Results indicated no toxicity, and cells attached and spread on the pore walls offered by the scaffolds.
This was supposed to be a high-volume, low-margin business, making money on a bid-offer spread on client trades, with a little arbitrage on the side.
Take the breakdown above; do transaction costs include just the bid-offer spread on shares and bonds or the "market impact" of the deal?
Here's how the story — for which no proof has been offered — spread: on May 29th, Boxun, a U.S-based Chinese-language site, claimed that Zhang had been paid six million yuan (a little short of a million dollars) to sleep with Xu Ming, Bo's friend and purported financier, before he passed her off to Bo with a fifty-per-cent markup.
Their trading is proprietary, meaning they trade for their own accounts and do not make markets for clients; they do not therefore benefit from the bid-offer spread on market-making, a lucrative source of profit for what are called 'flow' traders at investment banks; nor do they receive fees or commissions of any kind.
