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Prognostic Value of Impaired Vocal Cord Mobility in T2N0 Glottic Cancer Treated With IMRT
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.T2N0M0 glottic cancers with impaired vocal cord mobility (VCM) have worse outcomes than T2N0M0 tumors with normal VCM, but still fare better than T3N0M0 disease. These findings support subdivision of T2 glottic cancer into T2a (normal VCM) and T2b (impaired VCM) in future TNM revisions.
Alexander Rühle +20 more
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Editorial for special issue on advances in Actuarial Science and quantitative finance. [PDF]
Methodol Comput Appl Probab, 2022 Feng R +3 more
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Tactical and Strategic Risks From Supply Disruptions in Competing Supply Chains
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supply chain disruptions can lead to both tactical (i.e., loss of short‐term sales during a disruption) and strategic (i.e., loss of long‐term market share) consequences. We model the impact of a supply disruption on competing supply chains in which two firms compete for a limited backup supply.
Akhil Singla +3 more
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The present review of (financial) risk measures, prepared for the Encyclopaedia of Actuarial Science, first distinguishes two conceptions of risk. Risk of the first kind conceives risk as the magnitude of (one- or two-sided) deviations from a target ...
Albrecht, Peter
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Capping the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Is Equity Feasible? [PDF]
, 2009 Explores the feasibility of capping tax exemptions on premiums paid for employer-sponsored insurance without creating inequities by firm size, employees' age, and type of coverage -- by taxing benefits based on actuarial value or adjusting ...
Stan Dorn
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates stakeholder perspectives on mobilising private‐sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia, emphasising Hong Kong's role as a financial intermediary. Through semi‐structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, insurers, and project developers, we employed a grounded ...
Laurence L. Delina +4 more
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Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft ComputingWhile analyzing health data is important for improving health outcomes, class imbalance in datasets poses major challenges to machine learning classification models.
Edmund Fosu Agyemang +6 more
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Optimal strategies for pricing general insurance [PDF]
, 2006 Optimal premium pricing policies in a competitive insurance environment are investigated using approximation methods and simulation of sample paths. The market average premium is modelled as a diffusion process, with the premium as the control function ...
Emms, P., Haberman, S., Savoulli, I.
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UroPrecision, EarlyView.Abstract High‐intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has emerged as a widely adopted, minimally invasive treatment for localized prostate cancer (PC). Although originally applied for whole‐gland treatment, recent advancements in imaging and technology have facilitated the adoption of HIFU as a focal therapy modality, targeting clinically significant ...
Sunao Shoji +7 more
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Exploring Multivariate Copula Models and Fuzzy Interest Rates in Assessing Family Annuity Products
JTAM (Jurnal Teori dan Aplikasi Matematika)This research explores the development of a reversionary annuity product transformed into a family annuity covering three individuals: husband, wife, and children.
Kurnia Novita Sari +4 more
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