The eastern boundary of the Southern Cascades (Hat Creek Graben region), California, USA, is an extensively faulted volcanic corridor between the Cascade Range and Modoc Plateau.The east-west extending region is in the transition zone between the convergence and subduction of the Gorda Plate underneath the North American Plate; north-south shorteni
We consider a portfolio with call option and the corresponding underlying Vehicle asset under the standard assumption that stock-market price represents a random variable with lognormal distribution.Minimizing the variance hedging risk of the portfolio on the date of maturity of the call option we find a fraction of the asset per unit call option.A
Idris Usman Takai,1 Abdulkadir Abubakar2 1Department of Obstetrics Telescopes and Gynaecology, 2Department of Surgery, Bayero University/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria Background: Combined uterine and urinary bladder rupture following prolonged obstructed labor is indeed a momentous uro-obstetric emergency.The urinary bladd
Abstract Bamboo is an anisotropic, hierarchical, and hygroscopic material.Moisture transport in bamboo is one of the most fundamental properties affecting almost all other physical and mechanical properties of the material.This study investigated the water vapor sorption behaviors of bamboo at various structural levels: cell walls, cells (with pits