Stylized facts are uncovered for a domestic (U.S.) examination of the South African Rand futures contract (ZAR). In this preliminary study, we model complex volatility patterns by a nonparametric artificial neural network (ANN) that incorporates a performance enhancing closed-form regularization technique. The modeling characteristics revealed by the Kajiji-4 radial basis function (RBF) ANN pro...

The origin of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) African Foundation is described. The 16th WAAVP Conference held in South Africa in 1997 generated a surplus of ZAR 430 460 (US$ 70 116). This was invested and a foundation established to manage the fund with the intention of using it to the mutual advantage of the WAAVP and African veterinary parasitologi...

In this paper, the generalised extreme value distribution (GEVD) model is employed to estimate financial risk in form of return levels and at (VaR) for two exchange rates, BitCoin/US dollar (BTC/USD) South African rand/US (ZAR/USD). The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) responsible developing supervisory guidelines banks trading desks recommended that VaR be computed reported. maxim...

This paper investigates and analyzes the effect of dependency information on predicateargument structure analysis (PASA) and zero anaphora resolution (ZAR) for Japanese, and shows that a straightforward approach of PASA and ZAR works effectively even if dependency information was not available. We constructed an analyzer that directly predicts relationships of predicates and arguments with thei...

The purpose of this study is to model the nonparametric realized volatility of the futures contract as traded in domestic U.S. markets for exchange involving the South African rand and the U.S. dollar (ZAR). The study embraces a Bayesian regularization radial basis function (RBF) artificial neural network (ANN) to model the complex volatility patterns. The modeling characteristics revealed by t...