In this paper, we focus on the value of inflation-indexed bonds in an extended short rate model, which is a specific case of the general framework provided by Jarrow and Yildirim (2003). In the model, we assume mean-reverting stochastic dynamics under the risk neutral measure for both the short interest rate and the instantaneous inflation rate. We define the zero-coupon inflation-indexed bond,...

The 14-3-3 proteins, a family of highly conserved scaffolding proteins ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotic cells, interact with and regulate the function of several hundreds of partner proteins. Yeast neutral trehalases (Nth), enzymes responsible for the hydrolysis of trehalose to glucose, compared with trehalases from other organisms, possess distinct structure and regulation involving ph...

The electronic structure and reactivity of neutral tricoordinated Be(0) compounds BeL(3), L = CO (1), NHC (2) and PMe(3) (3) are explored by quantum mechanical calculations. These BeL(3) complexes are found to be planar or nearly planar like electron deficient BH3 but isoelectronic with NH3 and possess three L→Be donor-acceptor bonds. The Be atom can be considered as sp(2)-hybridized with a lon...

Reaching neutral territory: The title compound, the first tetrasubstituted deltahedral Zintl cluster, is no longer an ion (see picture; Ge green, Si purple, Sn blue). It is a neutral molecule formed by a reaction of the trisilylated anion with Ph(3) SnCl.

When participating in either an engaging or unengaging task, individuals appear to adopt consistent postures that may reflect a focused or unfocused attentional state. Posture is known to communicate certain affective states; however, it is of interest whether posture may elicit an attentional state that can influence performance on a task. To address this question, participants were first inst...

introduction: emotional words in comparison with neutral words have different hemispheric specialization. it is assumed that the right hemisphere has a role in processing every kind of emotional word. the objective of the present study was the development of a persian version of the dichotic emotional word test and evaluate its validation among adult persian speakers.   materials and methods: t...

A preference function (PF) takes a set of votes (linear orders over a set of alternatives) as input, and produces one or more rankings (also linear orders over the alternatives) as output. Such functions have many applications, for example, aggregating the preferences of multiple agents, or merging rankings (of, say, webpages) into a single ranking. The key issue is choosing a PF to use. One na...