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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison, Jimmy Martí­nez‐Correa, Karlijn Morsink, Jia Min Ng, J. Todd Swarthout   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Translanguaging silence and humor: Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English‐medium classroom in the United States

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article adopts a translanguaging and flows perspective to explore how a graduate course instructor constructs a “quiet student” identity through a historical speech event to explain academic concepts in an English‐medium‐instruction (EMI) classroom in the United States.
Gengqi Xiao
wiley   +1 more source

Discharge From the Acute Hospital Setting on Postoperative Day One Following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy: An Illustrative Pediatric Case and Literature Review. [PDF]

Cureus
Shields LB, Mutchnick IS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Engagement and retention with remote monitoring in psoriasis: Findings from the mySkin study

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Weiyu Ye, Niamh Dooley, Wei Ren Tan, Bolaji Coker, Teresa Tsakok, Lucy Moorhead, Jade Pizzato, Kingsley Powell, Madeline Kroah‐Hartman, Alexandra Paolino, Treasa Jiang, Freya Jackson‐Duffy, John Y. W. Lee, Manpreet K. Sagoo, Georgia Sewell, Camille Lancelot, Helen McAteer, John Weinman, Jonathan N. Barker, Sarah Chapman, Sam Norton, Catherine H. Smith, Satveer K. Mahil   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Separating Myths From Facts About Bread and Health

Nutrition Bulletin, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT White bread remains a staple food in many countries and global consumption continues to increase. However, there is an increasingly contentious debate, carried out particularly in social media and the popular press, about the adverse effects on health of factory‐produced sliced white bread as opposed to the whole grain breads made with ...
Peter R. Shewry, Alison Lovegrove, Edward J. M. Joy, Lucia Segovia de la Revilla, Gary Frost, Fred Brouns   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
wiley   +1 more source

Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
wiley   +1 more source