Near-optimization is as sensible and important as optimization for both theory and applications. This paper concerns dynamic near-optimization, or near-optimal controls, for systems governed by ...

Somatic cells can be inefficiently and stochastically reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by exogenous expression of Oct4 (also called Pou5f1), Sox2, Klf4 and Myc (hereafter ...

A condition is derived that must be satisfied by a continuous function h: X → X in order to be the optimal policy function of a strictly concave deterministic dynamic programming problem which is ...