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On the Systemic Nature of Weather Risk [PDF]
Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (non- subsidized) crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in ...
Guenther Filler +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Low‐level ambient benzene exposure is associated with increased risks of multiple brain disorders in urban adults. Genetic susceptibility modifies these associations, while plasma proteomics points to potential biological pathways linking benzene exposure to adverse brain health.
Jianhui Guo +10 more
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Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China
This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China. Results from 1,564 farm households from Western and Central China between October 2007 and October 2008 suggest that the greater risk for farmers is drought ...
Kong, Rong +2 more
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Weather Forecasting for Weather Derivatives [PDF]
We take a simple time-series approach to modeling and forecasting daily average temperature in U.S. cities, and we inquire systematically as to whether it may prove useful from the vantage point of participants in the weather derivatives market.
Sean D. Campbell, Francis X. Diebold
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Heat Shock Protein 90: From Molecular Chaperone Function to Therapeutic Targeting in Malignancies
Advanced Science, EarlyView.In this review, an integrated conceptual framework linking HSP90's molecular chaperone functions to its pathological roles in cancer is proposed. HSP90 serves as a central node that integrates oncogenic signaling, buffers proteotoxic stress, maintains cancer stem cell plasticity, and shapes tumor‐immune interactions, all of which converge to drive ...
Beibei Zhang +4 more
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Willingness to Pay for Weather Derivatives by Australian Wheat Farmers
A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australian farmers for a hedging tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability in wheat yield.
Byrnes, Joel +2 more
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Managing drought risk for food security in Africa: An innovative solution in Malawi
, 2009 Malawi has experienced extreme droughts and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint to growth and poverty reduction in the country.
Commodity Risk Management Group
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This perspective proposes a cohesive machine learning strategy to decode microplastic aging. It advocates for Federated Learning to dismantle global data silos and introduces the TRACE framework (TRansport, Aging, Corona, Ecotoxicity). By integrating physics‐informed modeling with causal discovery, this approach bridges the laboratory‐field gap to ...
Yaping Lyu +6 more
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This paper presents a general method for pricing weather derivatives. Specification tests find that a temperature series for Fresno, California follows a mean-reverting Brownian motion process with discrete jumps and ARCH errors.
Sanders, Dwight R. +2 more
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WEATHER INDEX- THE BASIS OF WEATHER DERIVATIVES [PDF]
This paper approaches the subject of Weather Derivatives, more exactly their basic element the weather index. The weather index has two forms, the Heating Degree Day (HDD) and the Cooling Degree Day (CDD). We will try to explain their origin, use and the
Botos Horia Mircea, Ciumas Cristina
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