Multiperiod Telser’s Safety-First Portfolio Selection with Regime Switching by Chuangwei Lin, Huiling Wu

“…Referring to Tchebycheff inequality, we modify Telser’s safety-first model to the case that aims to maximize the expected terminal wealth subject to a constraint where the upper bound of the disaster probability is less than the risk control level. …”
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Optimal Decisions and Pricing in Mail Service Systems Subject to Virus Attacks by Sheng Zhu, Jinting Wang

“…Correspondingly, we obtain a joint optimum value of scan rate and scan probability from the viewpoint of social welfare maximization and carry out a sensitivity analysis of the joint optimum value on some input parameters. …”
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Robust Evaluation for Transportation Network Capacity under Demand Uncertainty by Muqing Du, Xiaowei Jiang, Lin Cheng, Changjiang Zheng

“…An effective heuristic approach utilizing cutting plane method and sensitivity analysis is proposed for the solution of the RRNC problem. …”
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On Erdős sums of almost primes by Gorodetsky, Ofir, Lichtman, Jared Duker, Wong, Mo Dick

“…We also give an alternate, probability-theoretic argument related to the Dickman distribution. …”
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Unsupervised data imputation with multiple importance sampling variational autoencoders by Shenfen Kuang, Yewen Huang, Jie Song

“…We propose an efficient imputation algorithm that broadens the scope of Missing data Importance Weighted Auto-Encoder (MIWAE) by incorporating multiple proposal probability distributions and the resampling schema. …”
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Chemical Composition, Source Appointment and Health Risk of PM2.5 and PM2.5-10 during Forest and Peatland Fires in Riau, Indonesia by Sepridawati Siregar, Nora Idiawati, Puji Lestari, Abiyu Kerebo Berekute, Wen-Chi Pan, Kuo-Pin Yu

“…Moreover, there were five primary PM2.5-10 sources, including VE (28.6%) and BB (24%), followed by IE (19.9%), SD (17.2%), and SA (15.3%). A conditional probability function (CPF) analysis revealed that the southeast sector dominated among source direction-dependent contributions. …”
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Integrated Remote Sensing and Geophysical Investigations of the Geodynamic Activities at Lake Magadi, Southern Kenyan Rift by Akinola Adesuji Komolafe, Zacharia Njuguna Kuria, Tsehaie Woldai, Marleen Noomen, Adeleye Yekini Biodun Anifowose

“…The observed faults extend from the surface to a depth of 7.5 km and are probably the ones that bound the graben laterally. …”
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La gestion de l’eau à Bibracte (Saône-et-Loire), avant et après la Conquête romaine by Laetitia Borau

“…It is still preserved over an area of 16 m2 but it was probably even bigger, maybe as big as 35 m2, thus containing a volume of 35 m3. …”
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