This paper studies the expected return of a stock investment with a stop-loss strategy. The probability density function for the investment value is formulated as the solution for a boundary value problem of a partial differential equation. Then, the expected value is manipulated as a function of the stop-loss probability. Two examples are solved by an analytic method. Finally, we design a boun...

We present a new method to search for a light scalar top (stop), decaying dominantly into cχ̃0 1 , at the LHC. The principal idea is to exploit the Majorana nature of the gluino, leading to same-sign top quarks in events of gluino pair production followed by gluino decays into top and stop. We demonstrate the reach of our method in terms of the gluino mass and the stop–neutralino mass difference.

Rare or narrowly distributed species may be threatened by stressors to which they have never been exposed or for which data are very limited. In such cases the species response cannot be predicted on the basis of directly measured data, but may be inferred from the response of one or more appropriate surrogate species. Here, I propose a practical way to use the stressor response of one or more ...

A shortage of nurses is currently a problem in several countries, and an important question is therefore how one can increase the supply of nursing labour. In this paper, we focus on the issue of nurses leaving the public health sector by utilising a unique data set containing information on both the supply and demand side of the market. To describe the exit rate from the health sector we apply...

background: dietary approaches to stop hypertension (dash) eating plan is a healthy dietary pattern. our object is to review surveys in the field of major components of dash diet and different kinds of cancers. materials and methods: our search result from pubmed search engine recruited to find related articles. results: adherence to the dash diet components was significantly related to lower p...

CONTEXT First Stop, an 18-month demonstration project that operated in 1996-1997, was designed to offer low-income adult women in California hormonal contraceptives without requiring a pelvic examination. METHODS An evaluation was undertaken to assess the contraceptives adopted by First Stop clients, compare health risks of these women with risks among women using traditional family planning ...

An n-player, finite, probabilistic game with perfect information can be presented as a 2n-partite graph. For Can’t Stop, the graph is cyclic and the challenge is to determine the game-theoretical values of the positions in the cycles. We have presented our success on tackling one-player Can’t Stop and two-player Can’t Stop. In this article we study the computational solution of multi-player Can...