Pricing of American Carbon Emission Derivatives and Numerical Method under the Mixed Fractional Brownian Motion by Yuling Wang, Jing Wang

“…To capture the long memory properties such as self-similarity and long-range dependence in the price process, we proposed a model based on a fractional Black–Scholes, which is more in line with the actual characteristics of the option market. …”
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Development of Polymethylmethacrylate Based Composite for Gas Sensing Application by S. Devikala, P. Kamaraj

“…The composite prepared by mixing carbon black with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) has very good gas sensing applications. …”
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Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake by H. A. Dugan, R. Ladwig, P. Schramm, N. R. Lottig

“…Due to weather variability, only 1 year had predominantly black ice. Under these conditions, the lake rapidly cooled in early and mid‐winter, compared to snow covered conditions that insulated the lake from heat loss. …”
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‘God Gave us Legs to Walk!’ by Marizanne Grundlingh

“… Domestic work is a major source of income for many Black African women in South Africa. The experience of domestic workers is mainly shaped along racial and class lines – this is a result of the remnants of the legacy of apartheid, where many Coloured and African women were dependent on employment in the domestic work sphere. …”
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Study The Re-Use of Construction and Demolition Waste for Friendlier Environment: Waste Concrete and Waste Granite Aggregates by Mousa Hawraa Hasan, Kadhem Ali Abbas, Al-Bahrani Hussein Shakir, Jabal Qusay A., Alasadi Laith

“…The study shows that waste black granite aggregate gives best results in compression and tensile strength, compressive strength increased from 33.6 to 43.9 MPa, Using waste concrete as coarse aggregate increased also compressive strength from 33.6 MPa for reference mix to 36.9 MPa with 100% replacement.…”
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Primary retroperitoneal schwannoma. Case presentation by Annia Rivacoba Betancourt, Yusnier Varona Varona, Javier Cruz Batista

“…The article describes the case of a 47-years-old black-skinned patient with a history of health who attended a triage consultation, reporting that one month ago he had started having difficulty urinating, leading to acute urinary retention. …”
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Documentary film politics and the politics of documentary film by Lieza Louw

“…The filmmaker, a self-acclaimed political activist, set out to recount the events by recreating a voice for the mine workers by offering his personal reaction to the deaths of the 34 black men by interviews and archival material. Miners Shot Down was received well locally and internationally, but as an overt political narrative presented in a subjective reconstruction, some of the omissions may impact on a fuller understanding of the tragic event.tion. …”
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Invagination of the Adductor Loop of the Small Intestine into the Lumen of the Gastric Stump after Pancreatoduodenal Resection by G. V. Balitsky, V. M. Legostaev, T. V. Zema

“…The patient also reported an episode of black stools 7 years after pancreatoduodenal resection for pancreatic head cancer and 3 years after reconstructive surgery by performing choledochoenteroanastomosis. …”
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Cyphellophora sp. Isolated from a Corneal Ulcer in the Human Eye by Satheitra Rajandran, Kursiah Mohd Razali, Mushawiahti Mustapha, Prem Ananth Palaniappan, Fairuz Amran

“…Cyphellophora is a black yeast-like fungus with most of the strains being isolated from soil and plants. …”
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Multiple-Feature Extracting Modules Based Leak Mining System Design by Ying-Chiang Cho, Jen-Yi Pan

“…Thus, we make use of practical verification in order to focus on information security and privacy through black-box testing.…”
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Mothers and children without bread. Hunger in the Auxilio Social Cocinas de Hermandad and Comedores Infantiles during post-war Francoism (1939-1940) by Gloria Román Ruiz

“…It is also argued that, beyond the food supply problems of those famine years, the ineffectiveness of the Comedores and Cocinas was often due to the staff who worked in them, as they often used to steal food for their own consumption or to sell on the black market. Finally, it is argued that, given its failure to feed the needy, Auxilio Social’s aim of extending support to the dictatorship through the guise of charity was tarnished. …”
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Weaving Lao Silk Into Indigo Nights by Melody Kemp

“…Casting a quick mantra to the spirits of nature, she swallowed a glass of lao lao to start the evening.Leaning mindfully over her loom, Miss Phaeng raked her nails across the piano strings of silk warp, plucking each to test its tension. A black sheet of pin-straight hair fell over her face, hiding the claret birthmark shaped just like a spider, that crept over her right cheek, one leg disappearing into the fine hairs of her temple.The coarse ivory silk recently spooled from the cocoons gathered in her garden pushed back against her hand.She felt the fizz of anticipation low in her belly as she gathered all the many shuttles holding the weft silk and dumped them into an old blackened basket. …”
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Approaching the Century Jubilee (Interview with the Rector D.A. Endovitsky) by D. A. Endovitsky

“…Today Voronezh  State University is one of most renowned universities in Russia, the largest  research university in the Central Black Earth Region. Its world  competitiveness can be demonstrated by the fact that VSU is listed among  the top universities in international and national rankings such as  Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking, Times Higher  Education (THE) World University Ranking, Interfax, Rating of Russian  universities. …”
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Mathematical Representation of Color Spaces and Its Role in Communication Systems by Riyadh M. Al-saleem, Baraa M. Al-Hilali, Izz K. Abboud

“…There is an enormous use in color spaces and systems according to their own use, where the use of colors has become in various areas including television systems; computer systems; industry and product colors; printing of all kinds of black and white and color; paint colors for buildings, houses, and cities; and many other color-related uses. …”
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Obesity and Cancer Screening according to Race and Gender by Heather Bittner Fagan, Richard Wender, Ronald E. Myers, Nicholas Petrelli

“…However, some studies show a negative association in white, but not black, women. In contrast, obese/overweight men reported higher rates of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. …”
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Efficient Option Pricing in Crisis Based on Dynamic Elasticity of Variance Model by Congyin Fan, Kaili Xiang, Peimin Chen

“…Our main finding is that the prices of European call option under our model are more accurate than those calculated by Black-Scholes model and CEV model in financial crashes.…”
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L’Ase Negre (1946 - 1949), première revue d’occitanisme politique d’après-guerre by Philippe Canales

“…Testut coma un ase negre (literally: stubborn like a black mule), Ase Negre, resuming this saying showing the stubbornness of the young post-war occitanists Hélène Cabanes, Léon Cordes and Robert Lafont, is the new political review (that) they launched by being inspired by the magazine Occitania upon which we shall stop as well as on the personality of its founder Charles Camproux. …”
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Physics identity of Asian identified US college students by Linda Zhang, Madison Swirtz, Kerstin Nordstrom

“…For our analysis, we draw from previous physics identity research and use the critical physics identity framework developed in recent studies on Black physicists’ identities. We present results from the ideational resource code and emergent codes generated from the data, such as Transnational Context and Asianization. …”
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Government Efforts to Protect Habitat for the Florida Panther on Private Lands by Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Melissa M. Kreye

“…These lands also play a key role in conserving other native species like gopher tortoises, bob white quail, turkeys, deer, vultures, scrub jays, cranes, black bears, and bobcats. Unfortunately, these rangelands are under increasing development pressure as the human population in Florida continues to grow. …”
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Halo Nevi Are Not Trivial: About 2 Young Patients of Regressed Primary Melanoma That Simulates Halo Nevi by S. De Schrijver, I. Theate, O. Vanhooteghem

“…This report of two young patients indicates the importance of obtaining a detailed history to detect warning signs such as itching, pain, spontaneous bleeding, and previous alterations according to the patient, including a previously totally black colour in an already fully regressed melanoma. …”
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