Preface.- 1 Economics of Natural Resource Utilization - The Case of Macroalgae: R.R. Palatnik and D. Zilberman.- 2 Maritime Search and Rescue (MSAR) Operations: An Analysis of Optimal Asset Allocation: E. Akbayrak and M.K.Tural.- 3 Measuring the Regional Productivity in Spanish Hotel Industry: P. Alberca and L. Parte.- 4 Sugarcane Ethanol in Brazil: Different Impacts for Distinct Municipalities Development Patterns: M.A.F. Dias de Moraes et al.- 5 The Coordination of Agricultural R&D in the U.S. and Germany: Markets vs. Networks: B. Brandl and K. Paula.- 6 Short and Long Run Armington Elasticities for the Mexican Economy: E.R. Casares et al.- 7 Mathematical Modelling for Wave Drag Optimization and Design of High-Speed Aircrafts: C. Citak et al.- 8 Risk Modeling in Optimization Problems via Value at Risk, Conditional Value at Risk, and Its Robustification: Z. Cobandag and G.-W. Weber.- 9 Zero Limit for Multi-D Conservation Laws with Nonlinear Diffusion and Dispersion: J.M.C. Correia.- 10 Modelling Consumer Preferences for Novel Foods: Random Utility and Reference Point Effects Approach: I. Dolgopolova et al.- 11 Corporate Asset Pricing Models and Debt Contracts: M. Dózsa and K. Janda.- 12 Direct and Inverse Variational Problems on Time Scales: A Survey: M. Dryl and D.F.M. Torres.- 13 An Alternative Method for Snow Cover Mapping on Satellite Images by Modern Applied Mathematics: S. Kuter et al.- 14 Dynamic Structural Econometric Modeling of the Ethanol Industry: C.-Y. Cynthia Lin.- 15 An Introduction to Coupling: A. O. Lopes.- 16 Extreme Weather, Biotechnology, and Corn Productivity: J.R. McFadden and J.A. Miranowski.- 17 The Use of LCA for the Development of Bioenergy Pathways: M.C. McManus.- 18 Optimal Control of Stochastic Hybrid Models in the Framework of Regime Switches: E. Savkuet al.- 19 State-Dependent Impulsive Neural Networks: M. Sayh and E. Yilmaz.- 20 Modelling Native and Invasive Woody Species: a Comparison of ENFA and MaxEnt Applied to the Azorean Forest: L. Dutra Silva et al.- 21 Using Bayesian Inference to Validate Plant Community Assemblages and Determine Indicator Species: L. Silva et al.- 22 Development of Allometric Equations for Estimating above-ground Biomass of Woody Plant Invaders: the Case of Pittosporum Undulatum in the Azores Archipelago: L. Borges Silva et al.- 23 Alternating Hadamard Series and Some Theorems on Strongly Regular Graphs: L.A. de Almeida Vieira and V. Moço Mano.- 24 Actuarial Present Value and Variance for Changing Mortality and Stochastic Interest Rates: B. Yildirim et al.- 25 Itô-Taylor Expansions for Systems of Stochastic Differential Equations with Applications to Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: F. Yilmaz et al.