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A CONVERTIBLE-BOND-PRICING METHOD BASED ON BOND PRICES ON MARKETS
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Author
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Shi, Qiang
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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ABSTRACTQIANG SHI. A convertible-bond-pricing method based on bond prices on markets.(Under the direction of DR. YOU-LAN ZHU)This thesis is devoted to evaluating two-factor convertible bonds. Different zero-coupon bond curves are inputted when eva...
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A MESHLESS METHOD WITH ENRICHED BASIS FUNCTIONS FOR SINGULARITY PROBLEMS
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Author
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Hong, Won-Tak
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Mathematics
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Description
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For the last several decades, the Finite Element Method (FEM) has been a powerful tool in solving challenging science and engineering problems, especially when solution domains have complex geometry. However the mesh refinements and construction o...
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A Random Hierarchical Laplacian
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Author
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Ray, Elijah
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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The Hierarchical Laplacian, proposed in Dyson's theory of one-dimensional ferromagnetic phase transitions, has a discrete spectrum with each isolated eigenvalue having infinite multiplicity. As a result, the integrated density of states is piecewi...
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A partial posterior p value test for multilevel mediation
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Author
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Cox, Kyle, Kelcey, Benjamin
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics
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Description
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A variety of inferential tests are available for single and multilevel mediation but most come with notable limitations that balance tradeoffs between power and Type I error. We extend the partial posterior p value method (p3 method) to test multi...
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A study of operational variable influencing wheel balancing measurements
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Author
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Nabar, Aneesh
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Mathematics
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Description
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The aim of this research is to analyze various operational parameters that may affect the wheel balancing measurement. Therefore, wheel balancing measurements were taken iteratively on different low profile wheel/tire assemblies for different cond...
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APPROXIMATING SOLUTIONS OF BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
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Author
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Semiyari, Hamid
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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We present a new algorithm for approximating solutions of two-point boundary value problems and prove theorems that give conditions under which the solution must exist and the algorithm generate approximations that converge to it. We show how to m...
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American Options Pricing using HJM Approach
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Author
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Fernando, Wedige
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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With the development of financial markets and increasing demand for managing risk exposure, researchers and practitioners have developed various financial instruments over the years. Options, Futures, Forwards, Swaps are few examples of such instr...
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Analysis of failure time data with missing and informative auxiliary covariates.
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Author
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Ghosh, Lipika
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics, Biometry
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Description
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In this dissertation we use Cox's regression model to failure time data with continuous informative auxiliary variables in the presence of a validation subsample. The work is motivated by a common problem of missing or mismeasured covariates in su...
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Analytics for Fault Detection and Energy Management in Large Retail Portfolios
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Author
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Raju, Suhas
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources, Mathematics, Artificial intelligence
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Description
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Energy managers responsible for large real-estate portfolios typically review Energy Star scores and Energy Use Intensity (EUI) to determine which facilities to target for retrofit or audit. In the case of a large portfolio of small retail facilit...
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Art Authentication in an Untagged Art Database
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Author
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Dobbs, Bryan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Art--Historiography, Mathematics
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Description
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The identification of the artist of a painting is also known as art authentication, and the answer to this question is manifest through art gallery exhibition and is reinforced through financial transactions. Art authentication has visual influenc...
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Asymptotic Normality of Entropy Estimators
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Author
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Zhang, Xing
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Shannon's entropy plays a central role in many fields of mathematics. In the first chapter, we present a sufficient condition for the asymptotic normality of the plug-in estimator of Shannon's entropy defined on a countable alphabet. The sufficien...
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Asymptotic Normality of Higher Order Turing Formulae
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Author
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Chang, Jie
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Higher order Turing formulae, denoted as Tr for r ∈ Z+, are a powerful result allowing one to estimate the total probability associated with words from a random piece of writing, which have been observed exactly r times in a random sample. In part...
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Average Genus of Oriented Rational Links
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Author
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Ray, Dawn
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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The goal of this dissertation is to develop the formulation of the average minimal genus of all reduced alternating rational links with a given crossing number. Work has been done by N. Dunfield to approximate the growth of the genus of knots with...
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Binary Edwards Curves in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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Author
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Enos, Graham
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Edwards curves are a new normal form for elliptic curves that exhibit some cryptographically desirable properties and advantages over the typical Weierstrass form. Because the group law on an Edwards curve (normal, twisted, or binary) is complete ...
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Braid Indices in a Class of Closed Braids
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Author
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Hinson, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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A long-standing problem in knot theory concerns the additivity of crossing numbers of links under the connected sum operation. It is conjectured that if L1 and L2 are links, then Cr(L1#L2)=Cr(L1)+Cr(L2), but so far this has been proved only for ce...