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In sickness and in Health? Dynamics of health and cohabitation in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of cohabitation and functional impairments among older people. Our research has three main aims. Firstly, we want to analyse the effects of cohabitation on disability.
Karlsson, M. +2 more
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Reply to: Timing‐specific neutrality in a Rigorous ICU anabolic trial
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, EarlyView.
Lizl Veldsman +4 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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The reliability and validity of the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20): An International Review [PDF]
, 2009 This article reports on the current state of research about the most commonly used Structured Professional Judgement (SPJ) guidelines for sexual offender risk assessment, the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20).
Boer, Douglas Pieter +3 more
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Poisson XRani Distribution: An Alternative Discrete Distribution for Overdispersed Count Data
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical SciencesIn this article, a one-parameter probability mass function called Poisson XRani is proposed by combining the Poisson and the XRani distributions. A wide range of distributional properties such as the shape of the probability mass function, probability ...
Seth Borbye +2 more
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Information Discrimination and Its Implications on Distributing Healthcare Costs Fairly
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When healthcare resources are scarce, they ought to be distributed fairly across society. For some theories of distribution, an assessment of individual health risk is required for a fair distribution of both healthcare resources and burdens. Despite this requirement, prevailing theories underappreciate the cost of information on health risk ...
Harisan U. Nasir
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Leptospirosis Dynamics With Misdiagnosis: A Review
Journal of Applied MathematicsLeptospirosis is a zoonosis with global distribution, and a wide variety of clinical symptoms often lead to misclassification as other febrile conditions.
Japheth Musingila Mwongela +2 more
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The Value at Risk Analysis using Heavy-Tailed Distribution on the Insurance Claims Data
JTAM (Jurnal Teori dan Aplikasi Matematika)The insurance has often been involved to minimize financial losses. As the product providers, the insurance companies must effectively manage risks to prevent errors in risk measurement.
Utriweni Mukhaiyar +4 more
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Safety Assessment in Child Protection—A Survey Study With Dutch Child Protection Workers
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Safety assessment is a crucial part of child protective services to estimate acute and chronic danger in families that are at risk for child abuse in order to determine whether and which steps need to be taken to protect the child's safety. This study aimed to gain insight into the usefulness of the safety assessment procedure at Dutch child ...
B. Erens, H. Gerger, E. Simon
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