This paper investigates the performance and characteristics of survivor stocks in S&P 500 index. Using both in-sample out-of-sample comparisons, outperformed this market index by a considerable margin. Relative to other companies, tend be small-value that exhibit high profitability invest conservatively. Surprisingly, loser with negative exposure momentum factor. Further analyses show volat...

The main objective of this research is to forecast the daily direction of Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) index using an artificial neural network (ANN). In order to select the most influential features (factors) of the proposed ANN that affect the daily direction of S&P 500 (the response), design of experiments are conducted to determine the statistically significant factors among 27 potential...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate different homogeneity indices for IMRT of head and neck cancers and to suggest the best representative homogeneity index for quantitative measure of dose homogeneity. In this study 3 different homogeneity indices were evaluated for 22 head and neck cancer patients receiving dynamic IMRT treatments on Clinac-DHX linear accelerator with 6 MV photon beam. ...

The topological index of a surface was previously introduced by the first author as the topological analogue of the index of an unstable minimal surface. Here we show that surfaces of arbitrarily high topological index exist. Consider a compact, connected, two sided surface S properly embedded in a compact, orientable 3-manifold M . The disk complex Γ(S) is the simplicial complex defined as fol...