Mr. Peacock is a Professor of Animal Husbandry at the Agricultural Research Center, Ona. Dr. Koger is a Professor of Animal Genetics in the Animal Science Department, Gainesville. Dr. Hodges is a Professor of Agronomy at the Agricultural Research Center, Ona. Dr. Crockett is an Associate Professor of Animal Genetics at the Agricultural Research and Education Center, Belle Glade. Dr. Warnick is ...

show la belle indifference or lack of anxiety, and there will be primary and secondary gain achieved; primary gain from the symptom which symbolises the unconscious conflict, and secondary gain by the attention the patient receives [2,3]. The diagnosis can be made by elimination of an organic cause together with obtaining a careful history, including timing of events and any underlying stress. ...

Lemma 1 In the (t, g) policy space: (i) The ideal policy of py is (t = 1, g = g∗(1)) and the ideal policy of ry is (t = 0, g = 0) if θ > w wh and otherwise it is (t = t ∗, g = t∗w θ ) for some t∗ ∈ (0, 1). The indifference curves of ry and py are weakly concave and differentiable. For all t0 ∈ [0, 1], an indifference curve of ry(py) that goes through (t0, 0) lies on or above a line that goes th...

This paper is concerned with option pricing in an incomplete market driven by a jumpdiffusion process. We price options according to the principle of utility indifference. Our main contribution is an efficient multi-nomial tree method for computing the utility indifference prices for both European and American options. Moreover, we conduct an extensive numerical study to examine how the indiffe...

When real-valued utilities for outcomes are bounded, or when all variables are simple, it is consistent with expected utility to have preferences defined over probability distributions or lotteries. That is, under such circumstances two variables with a common probability distribution over outcomes – equivalent variables – occupy the same place in a preference ordering. However, if strict prefe...

The modern approach to consumer behavior, indifference curve analysis (ICA), is based, in theory, upon “revealed preference.” In actual practice, each (different) indifference curve is the locus of points generated by setting the differential of a utility function equal to a (different) constant. Neoclassical economists maintain that indifference curves, utility and the utility functions from w...

The article examines the meaningful component of semantic unity lyubov’-ravnodushie-nenavist’ (love-indifference-hate) on material explanatory dictionaries Russian language. For each three components unity, an assessment is made lexical and phraseological means their expression. conclusion about asymmetry: love absolutely dominates in terms number units expressing its semantics; indifference ha...

We study the dynamics of the exponential utility indifference value process C(B; α) for a contingent claim B in a semimartingale model with a general continuous filtration. We prove that C(B; α) is (the first component of) the unique solution of a backward stochastic differential equation with a quadratic generator and obtain BMO estimates for the components of this solution. This allows us to ...

The traditional approach towards derivative pricing consists of dynamically replicating a future liability by trading the assets on which that liability is written. However, the assumption that one can trade the assets is often rather restrictive. In some cases, say of options on commodities or funds, one can at best trade another correlated asset. In others, as in the case of basket options, e...

This paper investigates the problem of preference modeling under the belief function framework. In this work, we introduce a new model that is able to generate quantitative information from qualitative assessments. Therefore, we suggest to represent the decision maker preferences in different levels where the indifference, strict preference, weak preference and incompleteness relations are cons...