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Understanding, Modeling and Managing Longevity Risk: Key Issues and Main Challenges

, 2012
International audienceThis article investigates the latest developments in longevity risk modelling, and explores the key risk management challenges for both the financial and insurance industries.
Barrieu, Pauline, Bensusan, Harry, El Karoui, Nicole, Hillairet, Caroline, Loisel, Stéphane, Ravanelli, Claudia, Salhi, Yahia   +6 more
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Magnetic Textiles: A Review of Materials, Fabrication, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Magnetic textiles (M‐textiles) are emerging as a programmable materials platform that merges magnetic matter with hierarchical textile structures. This article consolidates magnetic material classes, textile architectures, and fabrication and magnetization strategies, revealing structure–property–function relationships that govern magneto‐mechanical ...
Li Ke, Moses Kumi, Xiaoming Tao, Junhong Pu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
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Optimum and Risk-Class Pricing of Annuities [PDF]

When information on longevity (survival functions) is unknown early in life, individuals have an interest to insure themselves against future ’risk-class’ classification.
Eytan Sheshinski
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Machine‐Learning Decomposition Identifies a Big Two Structure in Human Personality with Distinct Neurocognitive Profiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using machine learning on a mega‐scale global dataset (n = 1,336,840) reveals a robust personality trait architecture beyond the Big Five. A Big Two model, broadly capturing social engagement and internal mentation, defines a geometric space that links personality to neurocognitive profiles.
Kaixiang Zhuang, Ji Chen, Jinfeng Han, Wei Cheng, Jiang Qiu, Jianfeng Feng, Simon Eickhoff, Deniz Vatansever   +7 more
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Radical‐Mediated, Substrate‐Independent Fabrication of Hybrid Solid–Hydrogel Materials With Tunable Crosslinking: An Initiator‐ and Crosslinker‐Free Approach

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work introduces a substrate‐independent, reagent‐free plasma strategy that forms radical‐rich interlayers for covalent hydrogel attachment without initiators or crosslinkers. The long‐lived radicals drive in situ gelation, creating robust, cytocompatible hybrid solid–hydrogel constructs across diverse substrates.
Ghazal Shineh, Azin Khodaei, Pardis Keikhosravani, Masoud Zhianmanesh, Yiyun Xia, Aaron Gilmour, Sina Naficy, Andrea Guzina, Daniella Bianchi, Khoon S. Lim, Fariba Dehghani, Saber Amin Yavari, Marcela Bilek, Giselle C. Yeo, Behnam Akhavan   +14 more
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Sirt3 Genetically Engineered Apoptotic Bodies Alleviate Skeletal Aging by Limiting Aggravated NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation of Senescent Macrophages

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The senescence of macrophages leads to a decrease in the expression of Sirtuin3 (Sirt3), which in turn aggravates the NLRP3 inflammasome activation and IL‐1β secretion, thereby promoting the aging‐related osteoporosis. Sirt3‐enriched apoptotic bodies (ABs‐Sirt3) generated through genetic editing approaches can alleviate skeletal aging by targeting ...
Yanglin Wu, Shifeng Ling, Jiayi Mao, Hongyi Wang, Bo Wang, Zhenjia Che, Wenguo Cui, Ming Cai   +7 more
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Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun, Qiuting Yang, Jianghui Yun, Yujue Yang, Junhao Tang, Qian Liu, Minghui Zheng, Guorui Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source