A Simple Numerical Method for Pricing an American Put Option by Beom Jin Kim, Yong-Ki Ma, Hi Jun Choe

“…Employing it, we can easily determine the optimal exercise boundary by solving a quadratic equation in time-recursive way. We also present several numerical results which illustrate a comparison to other methods.…”
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Labor Requirement and Costs for Harvesting Tomatoes by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Steven A. Sargent

“…This 4-page fact sheet written by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, and Steven Sargent and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department presents the results of a 2015 study that examined the time it takes to harvest this important crop. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe1026 …”
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Matter Instability in Theories with Modified Induced Gravity by Kourosh Nozari, Faeze Kiani

“…It has been shown recently that the late-time cosmic speedup can be explained through an f(R)-modified induced gravity program. …”
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RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM – A CASE REPORT FROM KP by Omer Nasim, Zainab Rustam, Zubair Ahmed Khan, Jamil Ahmad

“…There are multiple available treatment options which depend on the type of aneurysm and the timely diagnoses of the condition. Understanding these options is important; endovascular techniques, renal auto-transplantation and nephrectomy maybe indicated.  …”
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Thymus’ gland. Clinical, morphological and functional aspects. by Dunia Reyes Hernández, Mayra Gil León, Galia Ivis Pérez Rumbaut, Carmen Niurka Piña Loyola

“…This article contains an updated review about the thymus making references to aspects related to its embriologic development, functions, morphology, and hormones the thymus produces and its principal effects, as well as the thymus; involution and its structural alterations, with the aim of offering enough information that allows the comprehension of the functional importance of this organ which has been considered as a non-functional organ for a long time.<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span>…”
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Kinetics of atrazine degradation by photocatalytic process in aqueous solution by O. Zahraa, L. Sauvanaud, G. Hamard, M. Bouchy

“…The Langmuir-Hinshelwood model is satisfactorily obeyed at initial time and in the course of the reaction. The rate of degradation is found to be enhanced by the addition of persulphate ions. …”
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Critical transitions in a model of a genetic regulatory system by Jesse Berwald, Marian Gidea

“…We apply two methods to numerically test the synthetic time series generated by the system for early indicators of critical transitions: a detrended fluctuation analysis method, and a novel method based on topological data analysis (persistence diagrams).…”
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A Discrete Method Based on the CE-SE Formulation for the Fractional Advection-Dispersion Equation by Silvia Jerez, Ivan Dzib

“…We obtain a numerical algorithm by using the space-time conservation element and solution element (CE-SE) method for the fractional advection-dispersion equation. …”
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New records for Erythrodiplax fulva (Libellulidae: Odonata) from Brazil by Alejandro del Palacio, Victor Rennan Santos Ferreira, Joana Darc Batista, Leandro Juen

“…We record the species from Brazil for the first time, comment on the importance of the distributional expansion range of E. fulva and point out the main differences between similar species.…”
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A TB Model with Infectivity in Latent Period and Imperfect Treatment by Juan Wang, Sha-Sha Gao, Xue-Zhi Li

“…The expanded model that stratified the infectious individuals according to their time-since-infection θ is also carried out. The global asymptotic stability of the infection-free state is established as well as local asymptotic stability of the endemic equilibrium. …”
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Public Policy Issues in Florida: 2017-18 Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) by Rodney L. Clouser

“… It is an exciting time in Florida public policy; the once-in-every-two-decades Constitution Revision Commission is in the process of recommending changes to the Florida state constitution. …”
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Removal of Mn(II) from Aqueous Solutions Using Bombax Malabaricum Fruit Shell Substrate by K. A. Emmanuel, K. A. Ramaraju, K. Somasekhara Rao

“…Studies indicated that sorption of Mn(II) ion increases with increase in pH and a contact time of 50 min was found to be optimum. The effect of concentration slows that fruit shell substrate can remove Mn(II) ion. …”
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Estimating the Gerber-Shiu Expected Discounted Penalty Function for Lévy Risk Model by Yujuan Huang, Wenguang Yu, Yu Pan, Chaoran Cui

“…Suppose that the claims process and the surplus process can be observed at a sequence of discrete time points. Using the observed data, the Gerber-Shiu functions are estimated by the Laguerre series expansion method. …”
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Motivation of employees in the public sector of Serbia: A case study by Dragić Milan, Kastratović Edita, Stojković Hadži Strahinja

“…The results confirmed the specificity and at the same time the difference in terms of the attitudes of public sector employees in the territory of Banat in relation to the region and the world.…”
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SUPPLIER-CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP PERFORMANCE IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by Marek Zieliński

“…The research was conducted among companies from construction industry which is perceived as focused on time limited projects, switching suppliers from one project to another which makes it difficult to develop long term relationships with customers.…”
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Global Robust Exponential Stability Analysis for Interval Neural Networks with Mixed Delays by Yanke Du, Rui Xu

“…A class of interval neural networks with time-varying delays and distributed delays is investigated. …”
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Worldwide Sports Injury Prevention by Luciana D Mendonça, Joke Schuermans, Evi Wezenbeek, Erik Witvrouw

“…The number one goal of the sports physical therapist is to make sure that the athlete is in optimal shape to perform, but with a minimal risk for developing an injury at the same time. The aim of this International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT) Perspective is to raise awareness about the importance of contextual and behavioral factors when planning and implementing injury prevention. …”
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Approximate Solution of Tuberculosis Disease Population Dynamics Model by Abdon Atangana, Necdet Bildik

“…The technique used for solving these problems is friendly, very easy, and less time consuming.…”
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La création scénique galicienne du XXIe siècle face à l’histoire et à la mémoire by Fabrice Corrons

“…The central part is devoted to the representation of the period 1931-1975 (Second Republic, Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship) since 2001 and to the question of memory in the present time. Finally, the contribution makes an analysis of the shows on previous or later historical facts of the central period (1931-75).…”
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La chirurgie cardiaque mini-invasive vidéo-assistée : une étude comparative à la voie conventionnelle [Less-invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery : a comparative study with the c... by Sami Bouchenafa, Ahmed Zaki Boukli-Hacene, Boukri Hamouda, Mohamed Atbi

“…This procedure results in a short -er recovery time. …”
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