This article introduces the concept of a statistical arbitrage opportunity (SAO). In a finite-horizon economy, a SAO is a zero-cost trading strategy for which (i) the expected payoff is positive, and (ii) the conditional expected payoff in each final state of the economy is nonnegative. Unlike a pure arbitrage opportunity, a SAO can have negative payoffs provided that the average payoff in each...

Patent intelligence—the transformation of content found in multiple patents into technical, business, and legal insight—is considered a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage in technologically competitive business environments. Although keyword-based patent intelligence tools are widely used due to their simplicity and ease of use, they are limited in that they cannot represent key tech...

For three Asiatic hybrid lily cultivars (‘Bright Beauty’, ‘Fashion’, ‘Orlito’) the potential postharvest performance of floral buds in terms of growth, anthesis and longevity was studied in relation to tepal carbohydrate status. To determine the importance of carbohydrate redistribution within lily inflorescences, the postharvest performance of several attached and detached buds was compared at...

ent sword as a control. Because swordlessness is the ancestral state of the Xiphophorus clade, Basolo argues that the results of her experiment indicate that female preference for swords predates the evolution of the sword and concludes that coevolutionary models of sexual selection are inadequate. Basolo provides no direct evidence in support of a preexisting female sensory bias, but rejects t...

ent sword as a control. Because swordlessness is the ancestral state of the Xiphophorus clade, Basolo argues that the results of her experiment indicate that female preference for swords predates the evolution of the sword and concludes that coevolutionary models of sexual selection are inadequate. Basolo provides no direct evidence in support of a preexisting female sensory bias, but rejects t...

In this paper, we describe SWORD – a decision procedure for bit-vector logic that uses SAT techniques and exploits word level information [6]. The main idea of SWORD is based on the following observation: While current SAT solvers perform very well on instances with a large number of logic operations, their performance on arithmetic operations degrades with increasing data-path width. In contra...

Since the beginning of Vergilian critical scholarship more than a hundred years ago, scholars have directed their attention to the complex texture of the Aeneid. The Aeneid is an arrangement of densely woven threads of poetic pictures and subtle meanings. Essential in this mental landscape is Vergil’s exceptional sensibility to words and images. The depth of Vergil’s rich texture comes to the s...

Colored calla lily is the short name for the species or hybrids in section Aestivae of genus Zantedeschia. It is currently one of the most popular flower plants in the world due to its beautiful flower spathe and long postharvest life. However, little genomic information and few molecular markers are available for its genetic improvement. Here, de novo transcriptome sequencing was performed to ...