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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"expiration"”.
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Stochastic Assignment with Expiration
… possibilities for the future with possible expirations. Since this problem is intractable, we first provide a compact linear program (LP) formulation that upper bounds the expected value of an optimal algorithm. Based on this LP, we design a polynomial-time algorithm that guarantees an …
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Urban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memory
Architecture is visuality. Its object is what Norman Bryson has referred to as a screen of signs. "Between subject and the world is inserted the entire sum of discourses which make up visuality, that cultural construct, and make visuality different from vision, the notion of unmediated visual …
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Information Content of Insider Trades, IPO lockup Expiration and long-run IPO performance
A number of previous studies have assessed whether insider trades convey information to the market. Whilst lots of research has been undertaken in the past three decades, the issue is still contentious and there is ongoing debate concerning the legality and profitability of insider trading. …
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Examining the introduction and expiration price effect of warrants on their underlying assets: evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… underlying shares around the introduction and expiration days of the warrants. The study is based on the JSE for the period 2008-2012 and employs the event study methodology. The study assesses the effects generally and for puts and calls separately. Overall, it is found that the price effect …
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Strategies to reduce product waste in the consumer packaged goods industry
… thesis focuses on waste associated with product expiration since this type of waste involves both manufacturers and retailers as well as different functional areas such as production, warehousing, sales, procurement, and store operations. As a result, the industry has not made much progress in …
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CFD simulation of the airflow through the human respiratory tract
… breathing in addition to constant inspiration/expiration. Physiologically-appropriate regional ventilation for two different flow rates was induced at the distal boundaries by imposing appropriate lobar specific flow rates. Two breathing rates were considered, i.e., 7.5 and 15 breaths per …
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Strategic Entry Deterrence In the Pharmaceutical Industry: Revisiting Product Proliferation
… its presentation proliferation before patent expiration only when in markets where entry deterrence is possible, then presentation proliferation is being used in an attempt to deter entry. Presentation proliferation is found to be nonmonotonic with market size in at least one case when …
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Inventory management in a pharmaceutical company : minimizing discard practices
… the severity of each cause. Raw material expiration is identified as one of the primary discard causes. High raw material inventory level is resulted from the current inadequate inventory management practices in SPM. A raw material inventory management procedure with appropriate inventory …
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Numerical singular perturbation approaches based on spline approximation methods for solving problems in computational finance
… options which can be exercised only on the expiration date, and American options which can be exercised on or before the expiration date. American options are much harder to deal with than European ones. The reason being the optimal exercise policy of these options which led to free boundary …
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Developing global inventory and resupply forecasting policies for the vaccines industry
… policy must consider challenges such as product expiration, country specific SKUs, and a challenging regulatory environment. This thesis discusses an inventory forecasting tool developed for Novartis Vaccines that can be used to determine appropriate inventory policies and forecast resupply …
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Macro-Financial Linkages and Perspectives in Economic Development
… realized distribution of SPY prices through the expiration of the option. With the goal of analyzing whether two different distributions come from the same underlying population distribution, we apply goodness of fit measures to assess the similarity of the risk-adjusted probabilities to an …
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Essays on the relations between derivatives and underlying asset or commodity markets
… trading on stock price efficiency around the expirations of IPO lockup agreements. It is well documented that IPO stock prices decline around lockup expirations, without reversals. Investors can exploit these price declines either by short selling in the underlying stock market or by …
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High Velocity Supply Chain: Redesigning a Long Lead Time, Short Shelf Life Supply Chain
… scrapped over $ 1M/year of these products due to expiration, and meanwhile, multiple stockout events every year adversely impact production schedules. This project addresses these problems by imagining inventory as a control loop problem, where we take the system from its current form as an "open" …
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Three essays in empirical derivatives
… results. First, position rollover during the expiration period creates large selling pressure which leads to a 5.7% drop in prices for non-expiring options. Expiration dates create exogenous variation in order imbalance, which in turn can explain the “abnormal” expiration returns. Second, as …
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Stock Option Returns, a Puzzle
… that do not have an ex-dividend day prior to expiration. The main findings are that over the 1996 to 2005 period (1) out-of-the-money calls have negative average returns, and (2) the average returns of high strike calls are lower than those of low strike calls. The puzzling returns are robust …
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Studentų nuomonės apie maisto produktų ženklinimą vertinimas /
… often or always read the information about food expiration date (90,1 percent), price (83,3 percent) and the amount of food (75,2 percent). When choosing food supplements more women than men often or always read the information about food supplements expiration date (71,3 percent) and the …
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The Information Content of Dividends: An Empirical Analysis of Warrants Conducted by Examination of the Implied Variability of Stock Prices
… For the last dividend announcement prior to the expiration of the warrant, the empirical results of this study generally support the information-content-of-dividends hypothesis. For the second-to-last dividend announcement, the empirical results are not as supportive. The relatively longer …
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Efficient Market Forecasts Utilizing NYMEX Futures and Options
… futures price into a price range at the option expiration date. The accuracy of this forecast is then tested against 15 and 30 day average forecasts.
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Strategies for Revitalizing the Humanitarian Workforce Program
… long-term success beyond its current funding expiration in March 2026. These evidence-based strategies aim to sustain volunteer engagement, foster community resilience, and strengthen Canada's disaster response capacity.
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One degree removed : the last carnival of Venice
… be understood as waste on life-support, with expiration dates and packaging material that ensure a lengthy and repulsive death, leaving behind durable synthetic corpses. Products of our consumption tend to pile out of sight, contributing to cities and architectures of their own. The binary …
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