Development of downstream operations in the Iran's petroleum industry has always been considered as a necessity in to create more value-added. One of ways to accomplish the misson, especially in the current situation, is exploiting the capacity of petroleum startups. Considering that these companies need to be valued for financing, and since the traditional valuation methods do not provide effi...

Abstract The project of integrated HPS (‘integrated history and philosophy science’) has occupied philosophers science in one form or another since at least the 1960s. Yet, despite this substantial interest bringing together philosophical historical reflections on nature science, formal remain as divided ever. In paper, I will argue that continuing separation between is ill-founded. for both ab...

Abstract A time-honored approach in theoretical materials science revolves around the search for basic mechanisms that should incorporate key feature of phenomenon under investigation. Recent years have witnessed an explosion across areas a data-driven fueled by recent advances machine learning. Here we provide brief perspective on strengths and weaknesses mechanism based approaches context mec...

The slight perversion of the original title of this piece (The Future of the Bayesian Brain) reflects my attempt to write prospectively about 'Science and Stories' over the past 20 years. I will meet this challenge by dealing with the future and then turning to its history. The future of the Bayesian brain (in neuroimaging) is clear: it is the application of dynamic causal modeling to understan...

The intermittent nature of wind energy generation has introduced a new degree of uncertainty to the tactical planning of energy systems. Shortterm energy balancing decisions are no longer (fully) known, and it is this lack of knowledge that causes the need for strategic thinking. But despite this observation, strategic models are rarely set in an uncertain environment. And even if they are, the...

In this paper several remarkable inequalities for the product with minimax series are considered and are compared via the valuation of these inequalities on Tchebyshev’s polynomials. c © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The approaches to liability valuation, assessment of prudential capital and measurement of profit for life offices are undergoing radical change. A common thread runs through all of these proposed changes ö each change represents a move away from traditional actuarial approaches towards a more economically coherent, market-consistent approach. These changes should encourage a general improvemen...