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Factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding among infants of working mothers in Ghana: a secondary analysis of the 2022 demographic and health survey

BMC Public Health
Background Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) plays a crucial role in reducing infant morbidity and mortality, contributing significantly to optimal infant growth and development.
Christiana Lokko, Jonathan Sackey, Francis Lokko, Cynthia Ama Mensah   +3 more
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On Fair Reinsurance Premiums; Capital Injections in a Perturbed Risk Model

, 2018
We consider a risk model where deficits after ruin are covered by a new type of reinsurance contract that provides capital injections. To allow the insurance company's survival after ruin, the reinsurer injects capital only at ruin times caused by jumps ...
Garrido, José, Salah, Zied Ben
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Optimal funding and investment strategies in defined contribution pension plans under Epstein-Zin utility [PDF]

, 2008
A defined contribution pension plan allows consumption to be redistributed from the plan member’s working life to retirement in a manner that is consistent with the member’s personal preferences.
Blake, D., Wright, I. D., Zhang, Y.
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Prevalence and Determinants of Caesarean Section Deliveries in Ghana: A Population-Based Cross-sectional Study

Public Health in Practice
Objectives: This study examines the prevalence and determinants of CS deliveries in Ghana, with a focus on institutional, health-related, and contextual factors.
Christiana Lokko, Jonathan Sackey, E.A. Aboagye   +2 more
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Risk measurement with the equivalent utility principles. [PDF]

Risk measures have been studied for several decades in the actuarial literature, where they appeared under the guise of premium calculation principles. Risk measures and properties that risk measures should satisfy have recently received considerable at-
Denuit, M, Dhaene, Jan, Goovaerts, Marc, Kaas, R, Laeven, R   +4 more
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Valuation and hedging of the ruin-contingent life annuity (RCLA) [PDF]

, 2012
This paper analyzes a novel type of mortality contingent-claim called a ruin-contingent life annuity (RCLA). This product fuses together a path-dependent equity put option with a "personal longevity" call option. The annuitant's (i.e.
Huang, Huaxiong, Milevsky, Moshe A., Salisbury, Thomas S.   +2 more
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Pricing Chinese Convertible Bonds with Learning-Based Monte Carlo Simulation Model

Axioms
In this paper, we explore a novel model for pricing Chinese convertible bonds that seamlessly integrates machine learning techniques with traditional models. The least squares Monte Carlo (LSM) method is effective in handling multiple state variables and
Jiangshan Zhu, Conghua Wen, Rong Li
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Copulas in finance and insurance [PDF]

, 2008
Copulas provide a potential useful modeling tool to represent the dependence structure among variables and to generate joint distributions by combining given marginal distributions. Simulations play a relevant role in finance and insurance.
Molanes, Elisa M., Romera, Rosario
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A new function for drug combination dose finding trials

Scientific Reports
Combination drugs play an essential role in treating cancers. The challenging part of the combination drugs are to specify the dose-toxicity ordering, which means the sequences of dose escalation and de-escalation in process of dose findings should be ...
Jiacheng Xiao, Weijia Zhang
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Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
Commencement Exercises Program, May 16 ...

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