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A global optimization problem in portfolio selection
(2009)This paper deals with the issue of buy-in thresholds in portfolio optimization using the Markowitz approach. Optimal values of invested fractions calculated using, for instance, the classical minimum-risk problem can be ... -
Global patterns in genomic diversity underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance in the aphid crop pest Myzus persicae
(2021-07-07)Abstract: The aphid Myzus persicae is a destructive agricultural pest that displays an exceptional ability to develop resistance to both natural and synthetic insecticides. To investigate the evolution of resistance in ... -
Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues
(2009)This paper looks at the impacts of the restructuration of global value chains are skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work ... -
Global statistical model calculations and the role of isospin
(IOP Publishing Ltd., 1998)An improved code for the calculation of astrophysical reaction rates in the statistical model is presented. It includes the possibility to study isospin effects. Such effects heavily affect rates involving self-conjugate ... -
The global status of insect resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides
(2015-06-30)The first neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, was launched in 1991. Today this class of insecticides comprises at least seven major compounds with a market share of more than 25% of total global insecticide sales. ... -
Global Survey on Novel Psychoactive Substances & Effects of Ketamine in Lower Urinary tract
(2016-05-31)Global Survey on Novel Psychoactive Substances & Effects of Ketamine in Lower Urinary tract Introduction Over the last decade Novel Psychoactive Substances(NPS) and ketamine recreational use have been a substantial threat ... -
Global Thrombosis Test (GTT) can detect major determinants of haemostasis including platelet reactivity, endogenous fibrinolytic and thrombin generating potential
(2014-05)BACKGROUND: Detection of both thrombosis and bleeding risk are essential in clinical cardiology. Thrombin generated by activated platelets and from the extrinsic coagulation pathway is the major determinant of thrombogenesis ... -
Global Thrombosis Test - a possible monitoring system for the effects and safety of dabigatran
(2015-12-08)BACKGROUND: Dabigatran is an alternative to warfarin (WF) for the thromboprophylaxis of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). The advantage of dabigatran over WF is that monitoring is not required; ... -
Global Thrombosis Test: Occlusion Is Attributable to Shear-Induced Platelet Thrombus Formation
(2023-11-23)We read the paper by Clavería and co-workers with interest.1We strongly believe that the conclusions of their paper, suggesting that occlusion (occlusion time (OT)) in the global thrombosis test (GTT) is due to coagulation, ... -
Global Trends of Prostate Cancer by Age, and Their Associations with Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Human Development Index (HDI), Smoking, and Alcohol Drinking
(2023-08-30)Background: We aimed to examine the global disease burden and trends of prostate cancer incidence and mortality by age, and their associations with gross domestic product (GDP), human development index (HDI), smoking, and ... -
A global view of competency in neonatal care
(2013-05-30)Neonatal Care is one specialty within nursing as a whole where the repertoire of skills and knowledge for practice is broad. Competence in skills, an important component of today's nursing agenda, must extend to any ... -
The Globalisation Glossary : A Researcher's Guide to Understanding Work Organisation Restructuring in a Knowledge-based Society
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Globalising the hotel industry 1946–1968 : a multinational case study of the Intercontinental Hotel Corporation
(2012)This article employs one case study, of Intercontinental Hotel Corporation, to examine the globalisation of the hotel industry between 1946 and 1968. The results show that the advent of multinational hotel development was ... -
Globalization and the End of Empire
(Carolina Academic Press, 2011)As Tony Hopkins has observed, the end of empire in Malaya (known as Malaysia from 1963) coincided with a profound change in the character of globalization and an acceleration in the process of its development. Increasing ... -
Globalization of Pantoja's optimal control algorithm
(Springer Nature, 2002)In 1983 Pantoja described a stagewise construction of the Newton direction for a general class of discrete time optimal control problems. His algorithm incurs amazingly low overheads: the cost (measured in target function ... -
Globalization: Managing Multinationals - a comparison of offshoring and outsourcing strategies in UK and German multinational corporations
(2015)This paper outlines research exploring differences in approach to outsourcing and offshoring by multinational corporations. In particular, a comparison is drawn between German and UK headquartered organizations in the ... -
Globular Cluster Populations: Signatures and Implications
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2003)The formation of populous secondary star cluster systems is a widespread phenomenon in mergers of gas-rich galaxies. Many, if not most, of those clusters are massive and compact enough to be young globular clusters (GCs). ...