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Hedging Brevity Risk with Mortality-based Securities [PDF]
, 2006 In 2003, Swiss Re introduced a mortality-based security designed to hedge excessive mortality changes for its life book of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death.
MacMinn, Richard, Richter, Andreas
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Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load and Cancer Risk: An Updated Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Nutrients, 2019 Diets high in glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) have been related to an increased risk of selected cancers, but additional quantification is required. We updated a systematic review and meta-analysis published in 2015 to May 2019 to provide quantitative information on GI/GL and cancer risk.
F. Turati +3 more
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Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiovascular Risk and Mortality—A Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Nutrients, 2018 Diet and chronic inflammation have been suggested to be risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related mortality. The possible link between the inflammatory potential of diet measured through the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) and CVD has been investigated in several populations across the world.
Nitin Shivappa +6 more
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An Enhanced Earthquake Risk Analysis using H3 Spatial Indexing
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2023 Abstract Risk assessment is the first step in disaster risk reduction and crucial for types of disasters with potentially significant impacts, such as earthquakes. Besides the direct impact of very devastating shocks, earthquakes can also trigger cascading events that are no less damaging such as landslides, liquefaction, and tsunamis ...
A N Aini +3 more
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Source governed trace metal anomalies in groundwater of foothill aquifer and its health effect
Applied Water Science, 2020 An integrated study of health risk assessment, pollution indices and cluster analysis has been carried out to assess the pollution and heavy metal sources in the groundwater. Certain elements analyzed exceed the prescribed limits of WHO standard.
Banajarani Panda +5 more
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Comparative and qualitative robustness for law-invariant risk measures
, 2014 When estimating the risk of a P&L from historical data or Monte Carlo simulation, the robustness of the estimate is important. We argue here that Hampel's classical notion of qualitative robustness is not suitable for risk measurement and we propose and ...
Krätschmer, Volker +2 more
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EarlyR: A Robust Gene Expression Signature for Predicting Outcomes of Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction Early stage estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer may be treated with chemotherapy in addition to hormone therapy. Currently available molecular signatures assess the risk of recurrence and the benefit of chemotherapy; however ...
Badve, Sunil S. +2 more
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Risk weighted alpha index – analysis of the ASX50 index
Journal of Economic & Financial Studies, 2013 Major stock indexes are developed on the market capitalization or price weighted indexation method. The Australian Stock Exchange 50 (ASX50) index is a market capitalization index of the top 50 Australian stocks. Fundamental indexation, equal weighted index and risk weighted index methods have recently been developed as an alternative to the market cap
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 BackgroundRecent studies have explored the prognostic value of the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) in patients with gastric cancer (GC), but the results are controversial.
Liang He, Ying Li, Linlin Qu, Fan Zhang
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Scientific African, 2022 Groundwater is regarded as a safe source of drinking water because it usually contains low microbial loads often requiring very little or no treatment before drinking.
Osei Akoto +5 more
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