Like insects, earthworms are among the animals most frequently encountered by many Floridians.Our kids play with them, dissect them blue rottnest island daisy in middle school biology, we fish with them, they crawl across our sidewalks and live in our flowerpots.Despite this, their ecological and economic importance often goes unrecognized.Earthwor
Language of the SMO in its historical and cultural context
This article analyzes the language used in special military operations from a functional and semantic perspective.Nowadays, the language used by the military (the SVO as the special military operation in Ukraine) extends beyond the professional group and, thanks to media and social networks, has become understandable to most Russian speakers.The mi
Nonparametric tests of strike price and expiration bias in the implied volatility of the South African All Share Index Future Contract
In this article we assess the appropriateness of the constant volatility assumption required by the Black (1976) option pricing model for options on the All Share Index future.The assessment uses similar nonparametric coleman powermate air tool set tests as implemented in Rubinstein for data recorded over the 1992 to 1996 period.In the nonparametri
Palaeoclimate evolution and sequence stratigraphy during Pliocene Shizigou stage, Qaidam Basin
The Qaidam Basin is a large transpressional Mesozoic to Cenozoic basin in the Tibet Plateau, West China.Since the Indosinian Movement, it has been in the subsidence stage and more than 3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas accumulated at the same time.The palaeoclimate evolution during the Pliocene Shizigou stage not only controlled sequence strat
A New Characterization of Unichord-Free Graphs
Unichord-free graphs are defined as having no cycle with a unique chord.They have appeared in several papers recently and are also characterized by minimal separators always inducing edgeless green snowflake japanese maple subgraphs (in contrast to characterizing chordal graphs by minimal separators always inducing complete subgraphs).A new charact