This paper reviews possibilities for, and experience with, credit-linked crop insurance, including different types of insurance and credit arrangements, ranging from insurance sold to individual farmers to meso insurance sold to financial service providers (FSPs) to cover losses suffered by...

We consider the MDS problem of fitting an lp-distance matrix to a given dissimilarity matrix with respect to the weighted least squares loss function (STRESS). The problem is reduced to the maximization of a ratio of two norms on a finite dimensional Hilbert space. A necessary condition for a...

A study of the zero-field ac response of a wire network of interconnected 6th-order Sierpiński gaskets as a function of temperature is presented. In a narrow temperature range below the superconducting-to-normal transition thermally nucleated vortices dominate the response. A theoretical model...