Actuarial and Financial Risks in Life Insurance, Pensions and Household Finance

mortality; fan charts; longevity risk; parameter risk; dynamic risk measures; time consistency; iterated risk measures; pension liability; solvency capital; largest claims reinsurance; excess of loss reinsurance; ruin probability; ruin time; compound Poisson risk model; heavy tails; Lévy insurance risk process; pensions; Defined Contributions; guaranteed rate; option theory; Margrabe formula; …

Actualization (Taf’il) of the Higher Purposes (Maqasid) of Shariah

The higher purposes, or maqasid, of Shariah are applied and actualized (taf`il) through their means (wasa’il). This paper begins with the definition and meaning of maqasid and proceeds to ascertain three discernible tendencies regarding their scope: reductionist, expansionist, and the moderate approach of wasatiyyah/i’tidal. It addresses the question as to whether the maqasid may be recogni…

Actual Problems of Emergency Abdominal Surgery

The book "Actual Problems of Emergency Abdominal Surgery" was written by an international team of authors with extensive practical experience. It contains literature reviews describing some of the diseases and pathological conditions that occur in emergency surgical practice. The problems described are relevant for emergency abdominal surgery. We hope that the materials of the book will be of i…

Acts of Gaiety

Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of "legitimate theater." Against queer theo…

Acts of Care

Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands" Provided by publisher.

Actors and Networks in the Megacity

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prachi More analyses these authors' accounts of vastly different cities such as London, Delhi, Mumbai,…

Actor-network theory and the empirical critique of environmental law: unpacki…

In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT), and the work of Bruno Latour in particular, have gained significant interest amongst legal scholars. This approach, derived from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and bearing various links with anthropology and ethnographic methods, has enabled new insights to emerge in relation to the ways in which law operates in everyday practices. The innovati…

Addressing the Climate Crisis : Local action in theory and practice

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Die österreichische Gesellschaft während der Corona-Pandemie: Ergebnisse au…

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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Children and Adolescents : Illustrated G…

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