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An Efficient, Distributable, Risk Neutral Framework for CVA Calculation

, 2010
The importance of counterparty credit risk to the derivative contracts was demonstrated consistently throughout the financial crisis of 2008. Accurate valuation of Credit value adjustment (CVA) is essential to reflect the economic values of these risks ...
Juan, Frank, Lu, Dongsheng
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Development of a generic Job Exposure Matrix for Hong Kong [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2011
Objectives To develop a generic Job Exposure Matrix (JEM) that uses coded occupation titles to generate semi-quantitative estimates of exposure to potential occupational hazards in Hong Kong. Methods The JEM was constructed using data of 4479 subjects who participated in 2 previous case-referent studies on lung cancer.
X. Q. Lao, L. A. Tse, I. Yu
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Occupational characteristics associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK Biobank during August–November 2020: a cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Occupational exposures may play a key role in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection risk. We used a job-exposure matrix linked to the UK Biobank to measure occupational characteristics and estimate associations
Elizabeth L. Yanik, Bradley A. Evanoff, Ann Marie Dale, Yinjiao Ma, Karen E. Walker-Bone   +4 more
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Work Hazards and Social Class among ‘successful’ ALMP-Participants in Norway

Journal of Comparative Social Work
Background and research question. Studies of the outcomes of participation in Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMP) focus primarily on employment status or earnings.
Espen Dahl, Kjetil A. van der Wel, Åsmund Hermansen, Magne Bråthen   +3 more
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Controlling Fairness and Bias in Dynamic Learning-to-Rank

, 2020
Rankings are the primary interface through which many online platforms match users to items (e.g. news, products, music, video). In these two-sided markets, not only the users draw utility from the rankings, but the rankings also determine the utility (e.
Abdollahpouri Himan, Ensign Danielle, Horvitz Daniel G, Joachims T., Kingma Diederik P, Salganik M. J.   +5 more
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Drawing Lines, Spanning Boundaries: Managerial Perceptions of Innovation Value in Public and Nonprofit Organizations [PDF]

, 2009
Despite the large and varied selection of literature on innovation, questions about the diverse organizational aspects of innovation and the differences of innovation in public and nonprofit organizations still remain.
Ronquillo, John C.
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Synergy and Attenuation of Work-Related Factors in Musculoskeletal Disorders: The Combined Risk Based on Data from the Korean Working Conditions Survey

Medicina
Background and objectives: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) account for more than 60% of compensated occupational diseases in Korea. Despite this burden, benchmarks of standardized ergonomic exposure and evidence on the combined effects of risk factors ...
Eun-Soo Lee, Myong-Hwan Kim, Dongmug Kang, Youn-Hyang Lee, Yoon-Ji Kim, Se-Yeong Kim, Youngki Kim   +6 more
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Although a valuable method in occupational epidemiology, job-exposure ­matrices are no magic fix

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020
Job-exposure matrices (JEM) are a common method for exposure assessment in occupational epidemiology. The first JEM were described in the early 1980s (1, 2) and have been used in a wide range of settings ever since.
Susan Peters
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Cleaning and asthma characteristics in women.

, 2014
International audienceWe aimed to assess the associations between occupational exposure to cleaning products, a gender-related exposure, and asthma characteristics, considering clinical, immunological and inflammatory aspects.
Anees, Arif, Cazzoletti, de Marco, de Vocht, Descatha, Douwes, Dumas, Dumas, Dumas, Ghosh, Henneberger, Kauffmann, Kennedy, Kogevinas, Labrecque, Le Moual, Le Moual, Le Moual, Lillienberg, Liss, Maestrelli, Malo, Medina-Ramón, Nadif, Pechter, Pekkanen, Pekkanen, Quirce, Rosenman, Siroux, Sunyer, Talini, Torén, Vizcaya, Vizcaya, Wang, Wenzel, Zock, Zock, Zock   +40 more
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Regularization and Model Selection with Categorial Effect Modifiers [PDF]

, 2010
The case of continuous effect modifiers in varying-coefficient models has been well investigated. Categorial effect modifiers, however, have been largely neglected.
Gertheiss, Jan, Tutz, Gerhard
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