Animal-rights zealots put wildlife welfare at risk

Current status of animal welfare and animal rights in China.

In the past few years, new social passions have sparked on the Chinese mainland. At the centre of these burgeoning passions is a focus on animal welfare, animal treatment, and even animal rights, by the public and academic sectors. With China's rapid economic changes and greater access to information from around the world, societal awareness of animal issues is rising very fast. Hastening this ...

Monitoring Animal Welfare at Slaughterhouses

Auditing animal welfare at slaughter plants.

The OIE Welfare Standards on slaughter transport, and killing of animals for disease control are basic minimum standards that every country should follow. The OIE, European Union, and many private standards used by commercial industry have an emphasis on animal based outcome standards instead of engineering based standards. Numerical scoring is used by both private industry and some governments...

Managing Value at Risk Using Put Options

A natural approach to reducing the risk of a position in stock, is by buying put options on the underlying. We consider a model where the Value at Risk is taken as measure of risk, in the framework of the BlackScholes model. We show a method for the choice of the optimal strike price of the options, and provide an analytic formula for the optimal Value at Risk, for arbitrary hedging expenditure...

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Latin America’s indigenous women are as diverse as the land they inhabit. Their uniqueness is shaped by belonging to groups that have their own distinct history, traditions, and identity. Yet despite this diversity, indigenous women confront the same human rights challenges: racial, gender, and socio-economic discrimination. Without ignoring the diversity of indigenous women, a better understan...