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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee +2 more
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Hedging Cash Flows from Commodity Processing [PDF]
Agribusinesses make long-term plant-investment decisions based on discounted cash flow. It is therefore incongruous for an agribusiness firm to use cash flow as a plant-investment criterion and then to completely discard cash flow in favor of batch ...
Dahlgran, Roger A.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Transaction Frequency and Hedging in Commodity Processing [PDF]
This study examines the effect of transaction frequency on profit and cash flow risk for firms that periodically purchase inputs, continuously transform inputs into outputs, and periodically sell output.
Dahlgran, Roger A.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Racism and sexism are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), yet few studies examine their role in co‐occurring PTSD/SUD. Through qualitative interviews with 23 people of color with PTSD/SUD, we found that racism and sexism influence the onset of men and women of color's PTSD/SUD in gendered ways.
Mallet R. Reid +6 more
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Kesiapan Penerapan Hedging Syariah pada Perbankan Indonesia
Al-tijary, 2019 sharia hedging/ hedging transactions based on DSN Fatwa No. 96 by using sharia commodity instruments is a new thing in Indonesia, so that more in-depth studies are needed to analyze the readiness of Islamic banks in implementing sharia hedging / hedging ...
Yunisa Fitriana
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Quadratic Hedging of Basis Risk [PDF]
This paper examines a simple basis risk model based on correlated geometric Brownian motions. We apply quadratic criteria to minimize basis risk and hedge in an optimal manner. Initially, we derive the Follmer-Schweizer decomposition of a European claim.
Hardy Hulley, T. A. McWalter
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Muscle architecture is a major determinant of muscle performance and, in mammalian lineages, has been correlated with both feeding ecology and locomotor behaviors. Over the past decade, contrast‐enhanced micro‐CT (DiceCT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional dissection‐based measurement.
Aleksandra Ratkiewicz +5 more
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Choosing not to choose: Hedging as a category of neutrality
European Journal of International SecurityThe concept of hedging has been recently introduced and has been gaining traction in International Relations (IR) literature. So far, the notion has been mainly employed to make sense of the strategic behaviour of some south-east Asian secondary states ...
Fabio Figiaconi
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A Robust Approach to Hedging and Pricing in Imperfect Markets
Risks, 2017 This paper proposes a model-free approach to hedging and pricing in the presence of market imperfections such as market incompleteness and frictions.
Hirbod Assa, Nikolay Gospodinov
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