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Heart Rate as an Indicator of Stress in Gotland's Russ Horses
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Animal welfare concerns both the physical and mental wellbeing of animals so the assessment of animals kept in captivity, for example zoos, is important and necessary both legally and ethically. Good welfare is especially vital when breeding endangered species as stress impairs reproductive investment.
Isidora Dundjerovic, Lynne U. Sneddon
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Individual Welfare Gains from Deferred Life-Annuities under Stochastic Lee-Carter Mortality [PDF]
A deferred annuity typically includes an option-like right for the policyholder. At the end of the deferment period, he may either choose to receive annuity payouts, calculated based on a mortality table agreed to at contract inception, or receive the ...
Thomas Post
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Mangrove forests are important blue carbon ecosystems, yet long‐term above‐ground biomass (AGB) dynamics in arid deltaic systems remain poorly understood. Here, we integrated field‐derived AGB data with multisource remote sensing and machine learning models (random ...
Muhammad Naveed +10 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This study combines replicated experimental manipulation, social network analysis, network permutations and meta‐analysis to disentangle active from spatially‐induced changes in animal network structure in the wild. It reveals that short‐term environmental changes primarily alter space use, with limited effects on social structure.
Camille N. M. Bordes +6 more
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Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk [PDF]
Using the widely-cited Lee-Carter mortality model, we quantify aggregate mortality risk as the risk that the average annuitant lives longer than is predicted by the model, and we conclude that annuity business exposes insurance companies to substantial ...
Anthony Webb, Leora Friedberg
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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Trend forecasting of main groups of causes-of-death in Iran using the Lee-Carter model. [PDF]
Med J Islam Repub Iran, 2018 Jahangiri K +3 more
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Analysis and Forecasting the Accident Mortality Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran Applying Lee-Carter Model During the Years 2006 to 2035. [PDF]
Bull Emerg Trauma, 2018 Aghamohamadi S +3 more
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In the core of longevity risk: hidden dependence in stochastic mortality models and cut-offs in prices of longevity swaps [PDF]
In most stochastic mortality models, either one stochastic intensity process (for example a jump-diffusion process) or a collection of independent processes is used to model the stochastic evolution of survival probabilities.
Daniel Serant, Stéphane Loisel
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