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Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using aggregated national data, this paper re‐examines the outcomes of the Australian and Norwegian protective systems during the past decade and compares it to the trends and issues identified in our earlier 2012 study. We outline the context of increased service demand affecting both countries with rapid expansion and reform of their ...
Bente Heggem Kojan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency Risk Assessments in Child Welfare Services: Developing Structured Support to Professional Assessments

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a study on structured support for the professional assessment of emergent domestic violence in families with children. Data are presented on the development and study of a new structured support called iRiSk emergency, which was developed jointly by the authors of this article, and an emergency social work unit in ...
Filip Wollter, Maria Eriksson
wiley   +1 more source

How does ageing affect life history traits and cold tolerance in summer‐versus winter‐acclimated fruit flies?

open access: yesEcological Entomology, EarlyView.
Ageing leads to a decline in function and drives phenotypic senescence. At the end of winter, the surviving fruit flies, which are expected to rebuild new generations, are likely to be senescent. Our study examines the impact of ageing on stress tolerance and reproductive potential of summer‐ versus winter‐acclimated Drosophila suzukii phenotypes (both
Bréa Raynaud‐Berton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the work governance divide: Pluralism and performance

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article introduces a new direction of studies that looks at the Workplace of the Future through enlarged interdisciplinary lenses. This article bridges the divide between different traditions – human resource management, industrial relations and economic democracy – arguing theoretically and demonstrating empirically their complementarity
Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Broomean(ish) Algorithmic Fairness?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recently, there has been much discussion of ‘fair machine learning’: fairness in data‐driven decision‐making systems (which are often, though not always, made with assistance from machine learning systems). Notorious impossibility results show that we cannot have everything we want here.
Clinton Castro
wiley   +1 more source

Industrial Policy in Disguise: The French Treasury and the Reregulation of the European Insurance Sector

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In December 2023, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement to revise the Solvency II Directive, aiming to unlock €100 billion in private investment through a series of deregulatory measures. This marks a significant departure from the stringent insurance supervision framework that has shaped European policy since the ...
Cyril Benoît
wiley   +1 more source

Sistemas informáticos aplicados a la matemática actuarial no vida. Un propuesta con R

open access: yesRect@, 2012
The present work is the result of the investigation realized by the authoresses on programming languages applied to Non Life Actuarial Mathematics (NLAM).
Claramunt Bielsa, Mª Mercedes   +3 more
doaj  

Registered index‐linked annuities in qualified retirement plans

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Many Americans remain financially underprepared for retirement. While automatic enrollment in employer‐sponsored retirement plans has helped, target‐date funds (TDFs) used as default investments have limitations. We propose target‐date registered index‐linked annuities (TD‐RILAs) as a transparent, cost‐effective alternative providing ...
Cameron Ellis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation of computational methods for aggregate data meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology
Background A Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) is recommended to meta-analyze diagnostic test accuracy studies (DTAs) based on aggregate or individual participant data.
Yixin Zhao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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