Desiring to bee a research scientist is the stuff of dreams for many youth. Fortunately, many of us bee *** s without losing our natural curiosity about how the world works. Today, new technology and discoveries have opened up exciting opportunities for the research scientist, inclu...
The actuarial skillset clearly covers many of the areas that have occupied the news and our lives since early 2020: the parameterisation of risk, models of infectious spread and the related hospitalisation and mortality impacts, and estimation of the longer-term impacts of many of t...
An agricultural scientist does more than you might think.Many of the advances in the availability of… More What Is Forensic Science?A crime or bad act has been committed.The result is a crime scene.The evidence from that crime scene is… More About Actuarial ScientistsAn actuary scientist is...
Zerilli’s background in law is evident throughout, with many legal processes described in excruciating detail. To be fair, this is understandable given the objective of the book. For example, in discussing the role of expert reports and committees as providing grounds for deliberation and consens...
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The inflation risk embedded in manyforms of insurance is also implicit systematic risk, since inflation is highly corre-lated with financial less tractable, products with a systematic risk component can be‘produced’ in a similar manner. A replicating portfolio can be set up to hedgethe ...
On 3 March 2012, very strong winds affected many parts of the North Island, particularly Taranaki. This weather event was one of the few that can be described as a 'weather bomb': the strong winds were driven by a fast-moving low, which deepened explosively in the 24 hours leading up ...
Although several studies indicate there is risk associated with distracted driving, there is not a clear consensus in the literature. Several papers discuss methodological and data issues that could bias results involving distracted driving. Other studies develop hypotheses that could explain why cell pho...
The response is questionable (refer to Hill,1995afor some theoretical suggestions). A paper that created debate in the scientific world was the recent work by Mir and Ausloos (2018) who compared the first two papers, in Refs. Newcomb (1881) and Benford (1938), where the BL was discovered...
To throw the issue of ex-post redistribution into sharp relief, note first that many of the three billion “losers” will have actually died due to the climate and economic disruptions and cannot possibly be compensated by those who continue to live—to academically talk about “potential compens...