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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rates of adolescents receiving psychopharmacological medication in Austria

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many aspects of everyday life, including the (mental) healthcare system. An increase in depression and anxiety symptoms has been reported worldwide, and is particularly pronounced in females and young people.
M. Otter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social network analytics for supervised fraud detection in insurance [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Insurance fraud occurs when policyholders file claims that are exaggerated or based on intentional damages. This contribution develops a fraud detection strategy by extracting insightful information from the social network of a claim. First, we construct a network by linking claims with all their involved parties, including the policyholders, brokers ...
arxiv  

The demand for social insurance: does culture matter? [PDF]

open access: yes
Can different social groups develop different demands for social insurance of risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland.
Andreas Steinhauer   +3 more
core  

A Discussion of Social Protection and Private Insurance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
[Excerpt] This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking paper, informative and interesting. I learned a lot from reading this and have already passed it on to others.
Fields, Gary S
core   +2 more sources

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Bowel preparation and surgical site infections in laparoscopic and robot‐assisted right‐sided colon cancer surgery with intracorporeal anastomosis: A retrospective study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This retrospective study investigated risk factors for surgical site infections (SSIs) in right‐sided colon cancer surgeries using intracorporeal anastomosis (IA). The results demonstrated that preoperative oral antibiotics (OA) significantly reduced SSI rates, with OA identified as an independent protective factor, suggesting its beneficial role in ...
Naoya Ozawa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The detection of professional fraud in automobile insurance using social network analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
The Automobile Insurance Fraud is one of the main challenges for insurance companies. This form of fraud is performed either opportunistic or professional occurring through group cooperation that leads to greater financial losses, while most presented methods thus far are unsuited for flagging these groups.
arxiv  

Premium Subsidies and Social Insurance: Substitutes or Complements? [PDF]

open access: yes
Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income.
Kerstin Roeder, Mathias Kifmann
core  

Short‐term outcomes of intracorporeal anastomosis in laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer: A nationwide, multi‐institutional cohort study in Japan (ICAN study)

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
We retrospectively compared intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomosis in patients undergoing laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer in 46 institutions by using propensity‐score matching. Intracorporeal anastomosis showed advantages over extracorporeal anastomosis in terms of blood loss, intraoperative vascular injury, bowel recovery, and length of
Tomohiro Yamaguchi   +92 more
wiley   +1 more source

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