Facts of Life
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The Real Facts of Life
The problems in Harold Walker’s latest essay, amusingly titled “The Facts of Life”, start with his very first line: Digital Modulation is usually a form of pulse modulation, of which, there are two types-Pulse Width and Pulse position. What about pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), phase shift keying (PSK) and frequency shift keying (FSK), just to mention a few others? All pulses are analyzed by ...
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Disability Studies Quarterly
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2159-8371,1041-5718
DOI: 10.18061/dsq.v26i3.737