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Analytic solution of a nonlinear Black-Scholes equation with price slippage
(2016)
We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation
whose nonlinearity is as a result of transaction cost and a price slippage impact
that lead to market illiquidity with feedback effects. After reducing the ...
Indigenous Grasses for Rehabilitating Degraded African Drylands
(2019)
Drylands provide an important livelihood stream to its inhabitants across the globe through a range of products and ecosystem services. However, these fragile ecosystems are threatened and believed to experience various ...
Development of Isolated Numeric Speech Corpus for Swahili Language for Development of Automatic Speech Recognition System
(2013-07)
Speech corpus being the basic requirement for the development of Automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, it should be done with much accuracy in order to enhance the performance of the system. This paper describes the ...
A Review of Agent Based Interoperability Frameworks and Interoperability Assessment Models
(2014)
In a heterogeneous world, concurrent distributed development has led to many types of multi-agent systems that offer diverse functionality in agents as different types of platforms are not in a position to interoperate. ...
Transaction Costs and Facilitating Conditions as Indicators of the Adoption of Mobile Money Services in Kenya
(2013)
Kenya is depicted as one of the fastest growing mobile money ecosystem in the world. In addition to the traditional text and voice services, all mobile phone service providers in Kenya have incorporated mobile money as a ...
Genomic and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in Africa: methods used for Phase 1 of the AWI-Gen population crosssectional study
(2018-09-27)
There is an alarming tide of cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CMD) sweeping across Africa. This may be a result of an increasingly urbanized lifestyle characterized by the growing consumption of processed and calorie-dense ...
Treatment of Tungiasis with Dimeticone: A Proof-of- Principle Study in Rural Kenya
(2014-07)
Tungiasis (sand flea disease) is a neglected tropical disease, prevalent in resource-poor communities in South America and sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by an inflammatory response against penetrated female sand fleas ...
Th17 Cells as Potential Probiotic Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
(2015)
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are characterized by wasting and chronic
intestinal inflammation triggered by various cytokine-mediated pathways. In recent years, it was shown that T helper 17 (Th17) cells are involved ...
Gender vulnerability to climate variability and household food insecurity
(2011)
Climate variability presents different challenges for men and for women in their efforts to ensure household food security. However, despitetheircentralrole, genderissueshavereceivedonly cursoryattentioninadaptation ...