Thermal modeling of the active Centaur P/2004 A1 (LONEOS)

Anatomy of the Centaur Historical Background

A staple of Greek mythology, Centaurs have made many appearances throughout the centuries and even in our own time. They are represented by numerous sculptures and images in museums. True, when speaking of Centaurs, we have to rely on twoand three-dimensional models—here as many other instances in biology—because there has not yet been a sighting of a live specimen. However, the majority of ext...

modeling insurance company expenses : the case study of iranian insurance industry

صنعت بیمه به دلیل عرضه محصول منحصر بفرد، در طبقه بندی مالی به عنوان یک صنعت با هزینه های بالا شناخته شده است. رفتار هزینه ها یک معیار مهم برای برای تعیین قدرت مالی شرکت بیمه استو این موضوع به ویژه برای بیمه گذاران و سرمایه گذاران از اهمیت اساسی برخوردار است. این مطالعه هزینه های شرکت های بیمه را در قالب سریهای زمانی پنلی انجام میدهد. تحلیل پنلی کمک برای درک رفتار نا متعارف، پیش بینی هزینه ها، و...

CentAUR Central

CentAUR Central

Many recent papers have documented the existence of periodicities in returns, return volatility, bidask spreads and trading volume, in both equity and foreign exchange markets. In this paper, we propose and employ a new test for detecting subtle periodicities in time-series data based on a signal coherence function. The technique is applied to a set of seven half-hourly exchange rate series. Ov...

CentAUR Central

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) Mass Storage Device (MSD), often termed a USB flash drive, is ubiquitously used to store important information in unencrypted binary format. This low cost consumer device is incredibly popular due to its size, large storage capacity and relatively high transfer speed. However, if the device is lost or stolen an unauthorized person can easily retrieve all the informa...