Sentences with word «copula»
Li's copula function was used to price hundreds of billions of dollars» worth of CDOs filled with mortgages.
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But, though the passages just quoted give good reasons for thinking he is indeed using the said verb in that manner, the possibility remains he may be using it as a mere copula.
After wooing a mate more than 50 times his weight, in what looks like «blind incompetence fuelled by fear», he inserts his sperm - laden appendages and then spontaneously expires in copula.
Female preference for a mate in orb - web spiders is often measured by latency to move onto the mating thread (as an indication of willingness to mate) and copula duration (under female control, with the potential to limit the amount of sperm males can transfer)[3], [11].
There is a children's shallow pool as well, and the trademark copula (dome) at one end makes a pretty picture with the vast blue horizon beyond.
A reader sent me this article about the Gaussian copula, apparently the algorithm that underlay the correlation models Wall Streeters used to assess mortgage security and derivative risk.
I must admit that Whitehead frequently uses the verb in question as a copula; but I must also point out that, just as frequently, he uses it, either transitively or reflexively, in the sense of «to create» or «to form».
But notice that to arrive at this understanding of the principle, we must assume that in it the verb «to constitute» is functioning as a copula — that it merely links the grammatical subject to a predicate nominative, thus establishing the identity of «being» and «becoming».
And because the copula function used CDS prices to calculate correlation, it was forced to confine itself to looking at the period of time when those credit default swaps had been in existence: less than a decade, a period when house prices soared.