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Regional Aspect of the Russian Insurance Market [PDF]

open access: yesЭкономика региона, 2018
Regional disproportions of the Russian insurance market have a considerable impact on insurance coverage of regional needs. The development of insurance relationship results from high-quality and structural changes in insurance interests both in ...
Aleksander Andreevich Tsyganov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Insurance Premium Taxes on Employment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report provides estimates of the effect of the insurance premium taxes on state-level employment in the insurance industry.
David L. Sjoquist   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Individual Loss Reserving Using a Gradient Boosting-Based Approach

open access: yesRisks, 2019
In this paper, we propose models for non-life loss reserving combining traditional approaches such as Mack’s or generalized linear models and gradient boosting algorithm in an individual framework.
Francis Duval, Mathieu Pigeon
doaj   +1 more source

The Rate-Making Process in Property and Casualty Insurance—Goals, Technics, and Limits [PDF]

open access: yes, 1950
A lateral boundary treatment using summation-by-parts operators and simultaneous approximation terms is introduced. The method, that we refer to as the multiple penalty technique, is similar to Davies relaxation and have similar areas of application. The
Kulp, C. A.
core   +2 more sources

Superiorfund - An Answer to State Court Holdings That Government-Mandated Cleanup Costs Constitute Damages under Comprehensive General Liability Policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
This comment analyzes the state high court decisions which seem to be reaching a consensus that the term damages in a Comprehensive General Liability policy encompasses the cost of cleaning up a hazardous waste site.
Kuchta, Lynn M.
core   +2 more sources

Checkerboard copula defined by sums of random variables

open access: yesDependence Modeling, 2020
We consider the problem of finding checkerboard copulas for modeling multivariate distributions. A checkerboard copula is a distribution with a corresponding density defined almost everywhere by a step function on an m-uniform subdivision of the unit ...
Kuzmenko Viktor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prototype as query for few shot semantic segmentation

open access: yesComplex & Intelligent Systems
Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) was proposed to segment unseen classes in a query image, referring to only a few annotated examples named support images. One of the characteristics of FSS is spatial inconsistency between query and support targets, e.
Leilei Cao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting Tides: A Decade of Business Climate Adaptation and Resilience Research (2013–2023)

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing significant disruptions to the socio‐ecological systems in which organizations operate, presenting unprecedented challenges for businesses across sectors in adapting to shifting environmental conditions and building resilience to extreme weather events.
Domenico Villano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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