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Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2021
Biological insurance theory predicts that, in a variable environment, aggregate ecosystem properties will vary less in more diverse communities because declines in the performance or abundance of some species or phenotypes will be offset, at least partly,
M. Loreau, M. Barbier, É. Filotas, D. Gravel, F. Isbell, Steve J Miller, J. Montoya, Shaopeng Wang, Raphaël Aussenac, R. Germain, P. Thompson, Andrew Gonzalez, L. Dee   +12 more
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MARCOS technique under intuitionistic fuzzy environment for determining the COVID-19 pandemic performance of insurance companies in terms of healthcare services

Applied Soft Computing, 2021
Assessing and ranking private health insurance companies provides insurance agencies, insurance customers, and authorities with a reliable instrument for the insurance decision-making process. Moreover, because the world’s insurance sector suffers from a
Fatih Ecer, D. Pamucar
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Examining the level and inequality in health insurance coverage in 36 sub-Saharan African countries

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are increasingly turning to public contributory health insurance as a mechanism for removing financial barriers to access and extending financial risk protection to the ...
E. Barasa, Jacob S Kazungu, P. Nguhiu, N. Ravishankar   +3 more
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Association Between Receipt of Unemployment Insurance and Food Insecurity Among People Who Lost Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

JAMA Network Open, 2021
Key Points Question Was the receipt of unemployment insurance and a $600/wk federal supplement to unemployment insurance associated with reduced food insecurity among people in low- and middle-income households who lost work during the coronavirus ...
J. Raifman, J. Bor, A. Venkataramani
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The impact of artificial intelligence along the insurance value chain and on the insurability of risks

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2021
Based on a data set of 91 papers and 22 industry studies, we analyse the impact of artificial intelligence on the insurance sector using Porter’s (1985) value chain and Berliner’s (1982) insurability criteria.
M. Eling, Davide Nuessle, Julian Staubli
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Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death among older patients at long-term care hospitals in Korea

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionLong-term care hospitals are known to be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and death given their numerous older chronic disease patients. However, the actual effect of long-term care hospital admission is not well known in Korea; hence, this
Jeong-Yeon Seon, Sunjea Kim, Min Kyoung Lim, In-Hwan Oh   +3 more
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Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity

Journal of Political Economy, 1983
This paper shows that bank deposit contracts can provide allocations superior to those of exchange markets, offering an explanation of how banks subject to runs can attract deposits.
Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig
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Evaluation of ‎e‎conomic variables on pension fund performance of selected countries [PDF]

Mathematics and Modeling in Finance
‎Since pension funds are part of the social security system and have a socio-economic function, in order to maintain the value of the insured's savings, they should invest them, which will have a direct relationship with the money market and the capital ...
Mitra Ghanbarzadeh, Nasrin Hozarmoghadam, Asma Hamzeh   +2 more
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FINANCIAL STABILITY AND INCOME GROWTH IN EMERGING MARKETS

Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2020
In this paper, we examine the extent to which financial stability matters for income growth in emerging markets. Using dynamic panel estimation techniques, we explore both the stock market and banking sector dimensions of the financial system to show ...
Bashir T. Mande, Afees A. Salisu, Adeola N. Jimoh, Fola Dosumu, Girei H. Adamu   +4 more
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Risk for metabolic syndrome in the population with visceral fat area measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021
Background/Aims To investigate whether visceral fat area (VFA) measured by bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) was associated with metabolic syndrome in subjects with and without obesity.
Han Ho Jeon, Yong Kang Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Haeyong Pak, Sang Yun Shin, Jeong Hun Seo   +5 more
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