The downside risk CAPM (DR-CAPM) can price the cross section of currency returns. The market-beta differential between high and low interest rate currencies is higher conditional on bad market returns, when the market price of risk is also high, than it is conditional on good market returns. Correctly accounting for this variation is crucial for the empirical performance of the model. The DR-CA...

atomizing of medicine into a series of separate problems, in which, as Jacopo frequently showed, equally opposed positions could be maintained with equal success. His successors faced with this impasse reverted to an ever closer scrutiny of the logical methods involved in reaching these conclusions. Dr Ottoson's conclusion goes far towards explaining the appeal in the sixteenth century of the c...

in biotechnology has been concentrated to review alternative routes for the production of natural compounds. plant cell culture systems are viable alternatives for the production of secondary metabolites that are of commercial importance in food and pharmaceutical industries. however, relatively very few cultures synthesize these compounds over extended periods in amounts comparable to those fo...

Abstract Background Cytokine-based drugs are currently being explored as alternative cancer immunotherapies. While the cytokine interleukin-18 (IL-18) has immunostimulatory effects, it is negatively regulated by a secreted high-affinity binding protein, IL-18BP, that functions an immune checkpoint limits IL-18’s efficacy therapeutic. A modified version of IL-18, termed “decoy-resistant” or DR-1...

In this paper we study new algorithmic structures with DouglasRachford (DR) operators to solve convex feasibility problems. We propose to embed the basic two-set-DR algorithmic operator into the String-Averaging Projections (SAP) and into the Block-Iterative Projection (BIP) algorithmic structures, thereby creating new DR algorithmic schemes that include the recently proposed cyclic DouglasRach...

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i Acknowledgements I extend my deep thanks to the following individuals for their help, support and professional development. Kelley Kitto for unmatched technical skills and direct contributions to this work. Dr. Carrie Wade for understanding and humor throughout graduate school. Dan Schuster for friendship and assistance. H. Oanh Nguyen for always lending a hand. The Thesis Committee: Dr. Geor...

demand response (dr) has many beneficiaries in the electricity market. there are independent players who are interested in dr, which include: transmission system owners, distributors, retailers, and aggregators. in this paper dr is introduced as a tradable commodity that can be exchanged between dr buyers and sellers in a pool-based market which is called demand response exchange (drx). drx ope...