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Portfolio Optimization Using Regime-Switching Stochastic Interest Rate and Stochastic Volatility Models
This paper considers the continuous-time portfolio optimization problem with both stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility in regime-switching models, where a regime-switching Vasicek model is assume...
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Obvious improvement of light extraction obtained by anodic aluminum oxide coverage on GaN surface
Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) films with different porosities were fabricated on the surfaces of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs). We measured the photoluminescence spectra of these samples and then calcu...
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Superconductivity at 5 K in alkali-metal-doped phenanthrene
Organic superconductors have π-molecular orbitals, from which electrons can become delocalized, giving rise to metallic conductivity due to orbital overlap between adjacent molecules. Here we report the discovery...
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Composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Mosla hangchowensis endemic to China
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Preparation of pure CdSe nanocrystals through mechanical alloying
Pure CdSe nanocrystals have been successfully synthesized by mechanical alloying Cd and Se elemental powders. XRD results show that pure CdSe compound in wurtzite structure has been fabricated after mechanical...
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A large iron isotope effect in SmFeAsO1 - xF x and Ba1 - xK x Fe2As2
The recent discovery of superconductivity in iron-based oxypnictides with the critical transition temperature (TC) higher than 39 K has generated great excitement. Work to determine the origin of the superconduct...
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Coexistence of static magnetism and superconductivity in SmFeAsO1−xFx as revealed by muon spin rotation
In non-conventional superconductors, the competition of magnetic order and superconductivity seems to be a key element for the origin of superconductivity. Investigation of the newly discovered iron-pnictides ...
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On evaluate of the integral methods for the determination of the activation energy
Recently, Órfão obtained two simple equations for the estimation of the relative error in the activation energy calculated by the integral methods [2]. In this short communication, the validity of the equation...
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Non-isothermal kinetics in solids
The integral methods, which are obtained from the various approximations for the temperature integral, have been extensively used in the non-isothermal kinetic analysis. In order to obtain the precision of the...
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A BCS-like gap in the superconductor SmFeAsO0.85F0.15
Following the discovery of superconductivity near and above 50 K in oxypnictide compounds, the hunt is on for the mechanism of this unconventional superconductivity. The first measurements of the superconducti...
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Superconductivity at 43 K in SmFeAsO1-xF x
The recently discovered layered rare-earth metal oxypnictides have reinvigorated research into high-temperature superconductivity. The first of these, found only a few months ago, had a transition temperature ...
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Precision of integral methods for the determination of the kinetic parameters
In this paper, a systematic analysis of the errors involved in the determination of the kinetic parameters (including the activation energy and frequency factor) from five integral methods has been carried out...
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Errors involved in the activation energy calculated by integral methods when the frequency factor depends on the temperature (A=A 0 T m)
The dependence of the frequency factor on the temperature (A=A 0 T m) has been examined and the errors involved in the activation energy cal...
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New approximation for the general temperature integral
A new approximation has been proposed for calculation of the general temperature integral \( \int\limits_0^T {T^m } e^{ - E/RT} dT \) ...
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Parametric study of the nonisothermal n th-order distributed activation energy model involved the Weibull distribution for biomass pyrolysis
This paper describes the influences of some parameters relevant to biomass pyrolysis on the numerical solutions of the nonisothermal n th-order distributed activation energy model (DAEM) i...
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Study on pyrolysis kinetics of walnut shell
Slow pyrolysis of walnut shell which is a cheap and abundantly available solid waste was carried out using thermogravimetric analysis. The effects of raw material heating rate on the pyrolysis properties and k...
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Pricing American Put Options Using Stochastic Optimization Methods
This work develops a class of stochastic optimization algorithms for pricing American put options. The stock model is a regime-switching geometric Brownian motion. The switching process represents macro market...
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A Modular Microfluidic System for Cell Pre-concentration and Genetic Sample Preparation
A modular system containing mixers, incubation unit, and cell capture unit has been developed using polymer microfluidic chips. A custom interfacing scheme has been used to assemble individual chips into the f...
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Nearly Optimal Controls of Markovian Systems
This chapter is concerned with asymptotically optimal controls of Markovian systems with weak and strong interactions in discrete time. The primary motivation of our study stems from many applications in opera...
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Development of Plastic Microfluidic Devices for Sample Preparation
Microfluidics technology shows excellent potential for applications in biotechnology, chemical sensing, and drug delivery. The use of microfluidics results in cycle time reduction, reagent cost and labor inten...
