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Creating Flood Disasters: Environmental Memory and Adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.This article explores three questions. First, why does New Zealand have widespread flooding hazards? Second, why are these persistent, with little seemingly learned from the memory of earlier events? And third, beyond reiterating conventional solutions, what examples of alternatives or adaptations are being developed in different places?
Eric Pawson
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Reviewing the Levee Effect: From Theory to Practice
Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Ongoing development in flood‐prone areas has intensified focus on flood‐risk management strategies. Constructed flood protections, like levees, lead to a false sense of security. Resulting development behind levees paradoxically increases flood risk, referred to as the levee effect.
Angela J. Catalano, Damon M. Hall
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Personal Injury Litigation in School Cases [PDF]
, 1955 With rapidly increasing traffic demand, it is expected that ultra-dense wireless access networks are deployed in many buildings in a near future. Performance evaluation of in-building ultra-dens networks is thus of profound importance.
Miller, Vernon X.
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims In this paper, we present a valuable and novel interdisciplinary study that applies a classic epidemiological model, Susceptible‐Infected‐Recovered (SIR) to capture the mean disease dynamics, with a novel Zubair Fréchet (ZF) distribution to model the extreme, heavy‐tailed nature of cholera outbreak sizes.
Kofi Afriyie Nyamekye +5 more
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A Neural Network Approach for Pricing Correlated Health Risks
RisksIn recent years, the actuarial literature involving machine learning in insurance pricing has flourished. However, most actuarial machine learning research focuses on property and casualty insurance, while using such techniques in health insurance is yet
Alessandro G. Laporta +2 more
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Financing of Trauma and Burn Prevention and Care in Malawi: A Scoping Review
Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Trauma and burns constitute major public health concerns in Malawi, disproportionately affecting children, young adults, and low‐income populations. Despite free care policies at public facilities, the financial implications of trauma and burn care are profound and understudied.
Kafayat Aminu +10 more
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Essays in Economic and Business History, 2003 This paper uses the introduction of the homeowners policy in the United States insurance market in the I950s to explore the process of innovation and the role that innovators (entrepreneurs) and imitators play within it through an examination of ...
John Rossi
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The Effects of Tax-Law Changes on Property-Casualty Insurance Prices [PDF]
During the 1980s, the federal income tax treatment of property-casualty insurers and their policyholders underwent several important changes, the most significant of which came in 1986.
David F. Bradford, Kyle Logue
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Bootstrapping vs. Asymptotic Theory in Property and Casualty Loss Reserving [PDF]
, 2015 One of the key functions of a property and casualty (P&C) insurance company is loss reserving, which calculates how much money the company should retain in order to pay out future claims.
DiFronzo, Andrew J., Jr.
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Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 2254-2341, May 2026.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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