Anecdotes of Early Life in Indiana

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

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The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

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Indiana ’ s Early Literacy Intervention

the support of the Indiana General Assembly. The grant provided annual funding for schools to implement Reading Recovery, a highly regarded early literacy program, or other literacy interventions. From its inception, approximately $31.4 million has been distributed through the grant program. Since 1997, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP, formerly the Indi-ana Education Policy...

Anecdotes about the Early Days of X-Ray Optics.

An anecdotal description of the trials and tribulations encountered by the first investigators in the field of x-ray optics starting in the late 1940s and how they managed to overcome them is provided. Some of the players, in addition to the author, included Paul Kirkpatrick, Hussein El Sum, and Howard Pattee of Stanford. At the University of Redlands we became interested in producing an x-ray ...