Discounted cash flow analysis, including net present value is an established way to value
land use and management investments which accounts for the time-value of money. However, …

In the recent years, the trend of environmental sustainability is rapidly increasing by adopting
renewable energy resources. However, the main concern is that whether renewable …

Background: The dilation of perivascular space (PVS) has been widely used to reflect brain
degeneration in clinical brain imaging studies. However, PVS characteristics exhibit large …

Noninterest income is what most Chinese banks are striving for in recent years because of
the vigorous competition among commercial banks due to the increasingly open market and …

Background: The imbalance between the production and clearance of alpha-synuclein and
its consequent accumulation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (…

This paper proposes a hybrid submodule modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology which
is suitable for multi terminal direct current (MTDC) transmission systems. Each arm of the …

The constant volatility plain vanilla Black-Scholes model is clearly inadequate to reproduce
even plain vanilla option prices observed in the market. Efforts to build a pricing model with …

Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading malignancies around the world. Identification of
novel and efficient biomarkers for GC diagnosis and evaluation of therapeutic efficiency could …

The cost of cybersecurity incidents is large and growing. However, conventional methods
for measuring loss and choosing mitigation strategies use simplifying assumptions and are …

We examine the inverse gamma (IGa) stochastic volatility model with time-dependent parameters.
This nonaffine model compares favorably in terms of volatility distribution and volatility …