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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown, Nicola Shelton   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong, Joost Jonker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distributed Ledger Technology for eHealth Identity Privacy: State of The Art and Future Perspective. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2020
Bouras MA, Lu Q, Zhang F, Wan Y, Zhang T, Ning H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Risk premia reconsidered: Illiquidity and selection bias for stocks and corporate bonds in the pre‐First World War period

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Financial history is plagued by a visibility trap. Using the Brussels Stock Exchange (1850–1913), we demonstrate that asset illiquidity introduced selection bias, which systematically inflated historical risk premia. Applying a latent return model, we argue that correcting for this illiquidity decreases the equity and corporate bond risk ...
Justin Case, Eline Poelmans, Gertjan Verdickt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trustable Environmental Monitoring by Means of Sensors Networks on Swarming Autonomous Marine Vessels and Distributed Ledger Technology. [PDF]

Front Robot AI, 2020
Berman I, Zereik E, Kapitonov A, Bonsignorio F, Khassanov A, Oripova A, Lonshakov S, Bulatov V.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Birth of a Mother Without Giving Birth: Experiences of Non‐Biological Mothers in Lesbian Families

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the lived experience of non‐biological mothers in lesbian families and the meaning they attribute to the maternal experience in the absence of a biological connection. Background Non‐biological mothers in lesbian planned families construct maternal identity without pregnancy, childbirth, or genetic ties.
Yael Doft, Inbar Livnat, Maya Payes
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamically Sharded Ledgers on a Distributed Hash Table

Distributed ledger technology such as blockchain is considered essential for supporting large numbers of micro-transactions in the Machine Economy, which is envisioned to involve billions of connected heterogeneous and decentralized cyber-physical ...
Fink, Christoffer, Schelén, Olov, Bodin, Ulf   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

“AI Cannot Speak African”: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on South African Women's AI Engagement

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an intersectional feminist perspective, this study investigates intersectional inequalities in artificial intelligence (AI) engagement among underrepresented non‐Western women. The study employs a qualitative approach and interviews 16 corporate women in South Africa of different races.
Caren Brenda Scheepers, Poh Yen Ng, Chow Siing Sia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGIES [PDF]

Современные наукоемкие технологии (Modern High Technologies), 2021
I.V. Karelin, I.V. Akimova, E.S. Grosheva, V.V. Artukhin   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Information Aggregation With Delegation of Votes

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liquid democracy (LD) combines elements of direct and representative democracy: voters can either vote directly or delegate their votes to others. We study its information aggregation properties in a setting with heterogeneously and privately informed independent and partisan voters.
Amrita Dhillon, Grammateia Kotsialou, Dilip Ravindran, Dimitrios Xefteris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source