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Resilience Practices and Post‐Traumatic Growth Among Sudanese IDPs

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan who have endured various forms of suffering resulting from being targeted or trapped by militants involved in large‐scale violence. Upon escaping the conflict zones, the civilians exhibit strength, adaptability, and wisdom in the face of various threats to ...
Karina Korostelina, Daniel Rothbart, Beltina Gjeloshi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Board Diversity and Corporate Environmental Performance: A Meta‐Analysis

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between corporate governance mechanisms and corporate environmental performance has gained increasing academic engagement; however, existing empirical studies provide inconsistent results. This study aims at empirically summarizing the results of previous research on the relationship between different characteristics of board ...
My Hanh Doan, Paul Ludwig, Remmer Sassen, Luisa Altenburger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction of life expectancy using the Lee-Carter model [PDF]

, 2013
The ageing of the population is a problem of many European countries including the Czech Republic. This problem is related to two main factors, the increase of life expectancy and the decline of birth rate.
Jindrová, Pavla, Slavíček, Ondřej
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Designing Governance for ESG: Incentive and Oversight Complementarities in Corporate Sustainability Performance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how internal governance design supports credible ESG performance by distinguishing between Incentive and Oversight Architectures. Using 13,993 firm‐year observations of US nonfinancial firms from 2018 to 2024, we estimate fixed effects and two‐step system GMM models.
Beyza Gürel, Nehir Balci, Mustafa Reha Okur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimación y proyección de la mortalidad para Costa Rica con la aplicación del método Lee-Carter con dos variantes [PDF]

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, 2013
RESUMENEl modelo de Lee y Carter ha sido aplicado para realizar estimaciones de la mortalidad en Costa Rica durante el período 1970-2010, y estas a su vez permiten hacer proyecciones que contribuyen al estudio del curso de la mortalidad en nuestra ...
Eduardo Aguilar Fernández
doaj  

Stochastic Mortality, Macroeconomic Risks, and Life Insurer Solvency [PDF]

Motivated by a recent demographic study establishing a link between macroeconomic fluctuations and the mortality index kt in the Lee-Carter model, we assess the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on the solvency of a life insurance company. Liabilities
Helmut Gründl, Katja Hanewald, Thomas Post   +2 more
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The Poisson Log-Bilinear Lee-Carter Model: Applications Of efficient bootstrap methods to annuity analyses [PDF]

, 2011
Life insurance companies deal with two fundamental types of risks when issuing annuity contracts: financial risk and demographic risk. Recent work on the latter has focused on modeling the trend in mortality as a stochastic process.
D'Amato, V., di Lorenzo, E., Haberman, S., Russolillo, M., Sibillo, M.   +4 more
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Connecting the dots: A narrative review of the relationship between heart failure and cognitive impairment

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1119-1131, April 2025.
Abstract Large clinical data underscore that heart failure is independently associated to an increased risk of negative cognitive outcome and dementia. Emerging evidence suggests that cerebral hypoperfusion, stemming from reduced cardiac output and vascular pathology, may contribute to the largely overlapping vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease ...
Mauro Massussi, Maria Giulia Bellicini, Marianna Adamo, Andrea Pilotto, Marco Metra, Alessandro Padovani, Riccardo Proietti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adding Shocks to a Prospective Mortality Model

Risks
This work proposes a simple model to take into account the annual volatility of the mortality level observed on the scale of a country like France in the construction of prospective mortality tables.
Frédéric Planchet, Guillaume Gautier de La Plaine   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Examination of Generation, Gender, and Race Centrality as Predictors of Stigma and Help‐Seeking Attitudes in African American Adults

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite being more likely to encounter and endure higher levels of psychological distress, African American adults are less likely to seek mental health services. Yet previous research lacks an examination of within‐group differences among African Americans’ help‐seeking attitudes, particularly by generation, gender, or the centrality of race.
Sara Jean‐Philippe, Clare Merlin‐Knoblich, Demetrius Cofield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source