… By 1960, the top seven Fortune 500 firms in the United States were General Motors Company,
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, US Steel, …

In an efficient NFL beting market, point spreads incorporate all relevant information contained
in past game outcomes. Efficiency implies that trading rules based on past game outcomes …

Therapeutic vaccines, when used alone or in combination therapy with antileishmanial drugs,
may have an important place in the control of a variety of forms of human leishmaniasis. …

… Lacey is a professor of finance at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of
Massachusetts. Professor Lacey's academic work has led to over 50 publications in finance …

Macaulay's duration, defined as the weighted average time to maturity of a bond's cash flows,
has played a central role in bond immunization. 1 Closedform solutions for duration …

Abstract Models are presented for the chemical evolution of the galactic disc with radial inflows
of the gas at a velocity constant with time, but that may vary with the galactocentric radius. …

… of D(l) and D(2), obtained by using the algorithm given by Nawalkha and Lacey, are:5 …
SK Nawalkha and NJ Lacey, "Closed-Form Solutions of Higher-Order Duration Measures," …

A situated agent is one which operates within an environment. In most cases, the environment
in which the agent exists will be more complex than the agent itself. This means that an …

… Nawalkha, Lacey and Schneeweis have presented a closed-form solution for convexity that
removes most of the computational burden.3 But that solution is quite restrictive; it is derived …

Unlike natural agents, artificial agents are, to varying extent, designed according to sets of
principles or assumptions. We argue that the designer’s philosophical position on truth, belief …