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Supercritical water deasphalting and desulphurization of heavy fuel oil with comprehensive molecular‐level analysis and techno‐economic analysis

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
Supercritical water deasphalting. Abstract The removal of sulphur from heavy fuel oil (HFO) is essential to address environmental concerns and comply with the stringent regulations imposed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2020. Previously, the acceptable limit for sulphur was 3.5 wt.%, but it was recently changed to 0.5 wt.%.
Biswajit Saha, Sundaramurthy Vedachalam, Nathalie Baquerizo, Ajay K. Dalai, Aiping Chen, Saumitra Saxena, Bassam Dally   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal dividends for a NatCat insurer in the presence of a climate tipping point

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study optimal dividend strategies for an insurance company facing natural catastrophe claims, anticipating the arrival of a climate tipping point after which the claim intensity and/or the claim size distribution of the underlying risks deteriorates irreversibly.
Hansjörg Albrecher, Pablo Azcue, Nora Muler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insuring the uninsurable: brokers and incomplete insurance contracts [PDF]

, 2005
How do markets spread risk when events are unknown or unknowable and where not anticipated in an insurance contract? While the policyholder can 'hold up' the insurer for extra contractual payments, the continuing gains from trade on a single contract are often too small to yield useful coverage.
Doherty, Neil A., Muermann, Alexander
openaire   +2 more sources

The Effects of Transitional Yields on Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance [PDF]

Transitional yields based on county average can be used by producers as the basis to obtain crop insurance on fields that have not previously produced the crop.
Chouinard, Hayley H., Shumway, C. Richard, Walters, Cory G., Wandschneider, Philip R.   +3 more
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Measuring the Impact of the Substitution of Innovator Biologics With Biosimilars on Uptake and Costs Among Ontario Public Drug Benefit Recipients

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
In Ontario, biologics have historically represented a small proportion of public drug claims but a large proportion of spending. Biosimilars, lower cost alternatives to biologics, offer a potential solution to the rising spending on biologics. From March 2023 to January 2024, the Ontario Ministry of Health required public drug program beneficiaries on ...
Anita Iacono, Martin K. H. Ho, Joanna Yang, Tonya Campbell, William Wynne, Dana Shearer, Lene Andersen, Eric Majer, Shaleesa Ledlie, Mina Tadrous, Tara Gomes   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring and Privacy in Automobile Insurance Markets with Moral Hazard [PDF]

This paper considers moral hazard insurance markets when voluntary monitoring technologies are available and insureds may choose the precision of monitoring. Also privacy costs incurred thereby are taken into account. Two alternative contract schemes are
Lilia Filipova
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Family's socioeconomic and demographic factors on elements of children's dental and oral health: A scoping review

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Family plays a significant role in children's dental and oral health (DOH) elements, such as children's DOH knowledge and practice, the development of children's dental fear and anxiety (DFA), children's dental visits, and children's DOH status.
Wisnu Fadila, Mugia B. Rahardja, Puguh Prasetyoputra, Anne A. Suwargiani, Yanu E. Prasetyo, Eriska Riyanti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk and saving contracts. [PDF]

: Following the ''time-capital'' approach of De Vylder (1997) it is shown that a fair life insurance contract can uniquely be separated into a fair savings and a fair pure risk contract.
Denuit, Michel, Dhaene, Jan, Goovaerts, Marc, Wolthuis, H   +3 more
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting Resource Efficiency Practices Across European Firms: A Multilevel Analysis

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is a key sustainability paradigm, prompting European Union (EU) organizations and policymakers to move beyond linear production and consumption models. The study aimed to assess the implementation patterns of nine CE activities among EU companies and to explore how the implementation of these CE activities relates to ...
Sofia Gomes, João M. Lopes, Elisabete Nogueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source