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Estimating the risk-adjusted capital is an affair in the tails [PDF]

(Re)insurance companies need to model their liabilities' portfolio to compute the risk-adjusted capital (RAC) needed to support their business. The RAC depends on both the distribution and the dependence functions that are applied among the risks in a ...
Canestraro, Davide, Dacorogna, Michel
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Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In brood‐site pollination mutualisms, where flowers provide nutrition and shelter to pollinator offspring in exchange for pollination, resource allocation to inflorescences is directly related to plant and pollinator fitness.
Manasa Kulkarni, Nehal Vijay Naik, Jyothilakshmi Vadassery, Renee M. Borges   +3 more
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The prevalence of cannabidiol (CBD) use in North America and Europe: A meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims The global cannabidiol (CBD) market has expanded in recent years. Several studies suggest CBD use, whether for medical or recreational purposes, is on the rise; however, no systematic assessments of its prevalence have been conducted so far. This meta‐analysis aimed to estimate the prevalence of CBD use in North America and
Sara Weidberg, Clara Iza‐Fernández, Layla Alemán‐Moussa, Andrea Krotter, Alba González‐Roz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corneal power modelling with OCT data – Thin and thick lens paraxial models versus raytracing

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Evaluating keratometric power with Zeiss index (PKZ), paraxial thick cornea power (Gullstrand [PG]) and power referenced to the front (PFV) and back vertex plane (PBV) and raytracing power (PR), and modelling the deviation from PKZ with a multivariable linear prediction model.
Achim Langenbucher, Nóra Szentmáry, Alan Cayless, Peter Hoffmann, Jascha Wendelstein   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spike-and-wave epileptiform discharge pattern detection based on Kendall's Tau-b coefficient

Applied Medical Informatics, 2019
Epilepsy is an important public health issue. An appropriate epileptiform discharge pattern detection of this neurological disease is a typical problem in biomedical engineering.
Antonio QUINTERO-RINCÓN, Catalina CARENZO, Joaquín EMS, Lourdes HIRSCHSON, Valeria MURO, Carlos D´GIANO   +5 more
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HUBUNGAN TINGKAT STRES KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PENATA ANESTESI KOTA PADANG

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Job stress is a serious problem that can affect the performance of health workers, including anesthesiologists. High pressure in carrying out tasks, great responsibility, and dynamic and risky work situations make this profession vulnerable to stress ...
Fatimah Fatimah, M. Zuhdi Zulhadi, Leo Agustigno   +2 more
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Learning Across the Divide: Understanding Knowledge Sharing Through Petrographic Analysis on Ceramics From the Rhine‐Meuse Delta During the Middle to Late Neolithic Transition (3400–2200 bce)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vlaardingen (VL) communities on the Dutch West coast (3400–2200 bce) are part of a unique, long‐term continuity in the European Neolithic. Despite large‐scale changes in European populations during the Neolithic, the genomic diversity and cultural practices of VL communities can be retraced to the Mesolithic.
Jisca de Bruin, Erik Kroon, Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Dennis Braekmans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
wiley   +1 more source

A novel index to measure pre‐planning in the Tower of London task: Test–retest reliability and known‐group validity

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Tower of London (TOL) is a planning task frequently used in clinical settings and research. Planning and execution times are the most common outcome variables despite yielding lower effect sizes in clinical group comparisons and lower test–retest reliability than planning accuracy. Here, it is proposed that planning time be analysed not in
Lena V. Schumacher, Benjamin Rahm, Christoph P. Kaller, Valentin Schyle, Cornelius Weiller, Josef M. Unterrainer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing Foster and Non‐Foster Adolescents: A Pilot Study on Relationships and Psychological Difficulties

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adolescents experience substantial changes in their close relationships, which are linked to psychological adjustment. Research on relationships among adolescents in foster care is limited, especially in Germany. This pilot study (N = 30; 15 in foster families, 15 in biological families) explored how relationship qualities—measured by the ...
Julia Festini, Gottfried Spangler, Sandra Gabler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source