This paper presents a lattice algorithm for pricing both Europeanand American-style moving average barrier options (MABOs). We develop a finite-dimensional partial differential equation (PDE) model for discretely monitored MABOs and solve it numerically by using a forward shooting grid method. The modeling PDE for continuously monitored MABOs has infinite dimensions and cannot be solved directl...

BACKGROUND In nature, shooting mechanisms are used for a variety of purposes, including prey capture, defense, and reproduction. This review offers insight into the working principles of shooting mechanisms in fungi, plants, and animals in the light of the specific functional demands that these mechanisms fulfill. METHODS We systematically searched the literature using Scopus and Web of Knowl...

BACKGROUND Practising target-shooting sport requires focused attention and motoric steadiness. A previous non-controlled pilot study suggests that children with impairing symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) benefit from participating in target-shooting sport in local shooting associations, as rated by parents and teachers. This study aims at examining if, and to which ex...

Several taxa of simultaneously hermaphroditic land snails exhibit a conspicuous mating behaviour, the so-called shooting of love darts. During mating, such land snail species transfer a specific secretion by stabbing a mating partner's body with the love dart. It has been shown that sperm donors benefit from this traumatic secretion transfer, because the secretions manipulate the physiology of ...

entered the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., and killed 12 people before being shot himself by police. Reports on the shooter suggested he may have been delusional and had a history of several past angry outbursts that came to the attention of law enforcement (Bothelo & Sterling, 2013). Briefly, speculation arose that Alexis may have played military-themed shooter games and that these games may h...

—As the use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) such as drone has been increased recently, aerial video shooting technology and surveillance system began to attract global attention. The video surveillance system using an UAV requires high speed wireless transmission technology to obtain high resolution video images in real-time under poor on-air channel environment, accurate positioning trace te...

This paper presents a Lie-group shooting method for the numerical solutions of multi-dimensional nonlinear boundary-value problems, which may exhibit multiple solutions. The Lie-group shooting method is a powerful technique to search unknown initial conditions through a single parameter, which is determined by matching the multiple targets through a minimum of an appropriately defined measure o...

We present a new quadtree-based decomposition of a polygon possibly with holes. For a polygon of n vertices, a truncated decomposition can be computed in O(nlog n) time which yields a Steiner tri-angulation of the interior of the polygon that has O(n log n) size and approximates the minimum weight Steiner triangulation (MWST) to within a constant factor. An approximate MWST is good for ray shoo...