Social Life in Tirukkural

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, ...

Social capital in Second Life

Purpose: Second Life is a user-created online virtual world, which is a place where people with shared interests can meet and be together and share information. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Second Life communities foster and nurture social capital, whether social capital within Second Life is related to social capital outside the virtual world, whether some characteristic...

Building Social Life Networks

The availability of enormous volumes of heterogeneous Cyber-Physical-Social (CPS) data streams allow design and implementation of networks to connect people with essential life resources. We call these networks Social Life Networks (SLNs). We are developing concepts, technology, and infrastructure to design and build these networks. SLNs will be helpful in addressing several essential societal ...

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition

Investigating the moderating role of social intelligence in the relationship between social frustration and life expectancy in female-headed households

Introduction: Women heads of households are considered as women who are heads of households without regular presence or support of a man. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social frustration and social intelligence with life expectancy in female heads of households. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and structural equation model in terms of de...