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Showing 1 to 20 of 3253 for “"claim"”.
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RAROC-Based contingent claim valuation
… investigates the valuation of a contingent claim based on the criterion RAROC, an abbreviation of Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital. RAROC is defined as the ratio of expected return to risk, and may therefore be regarded as a performance measure. RAROC-based pricing theory can indeed be …
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Explainable Neural Claim Verification Using Rationalization
… which is a significant challenge. Although claim verification techniques exist, they lack proper explainability. Numerical scores such as Attention and Lime and visualization techniques such as saliency heat maps are insufficient because they require specialized knowledge. It is inaccessible …
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HYPOTHETICAL CANADIAN CLAIM CONSTRUCTION IN THE RIM LAWSUIT
… courts take a broader approach to patent claim construction than their American counterparts, and (2) to comment on a hypothetical patent claim construction for Research in Motion (“RIM”) litigation assuming that RIM would have been sued in Canada. The analysis for the first question is …
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Stochastic Volatility Models for Contingent Claim Pricing and Hedging
The present mini-thesis seeks to explore and investigate the mathematical theory and concepts that underpins the valuation of derivative securities, particularly European plainvanilla options. The main argument that we emphasise is that novel models of option pricing, as is suggested by Hull and …
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Bodies of Evidence: An Anthropology of the Health Claim
How can a food or food ingredient be proven healthy, without calling it a drug? In this thesis, I make an attempt at understanding the stakes of a heated debate involving scientists from the food industry, academia, and the European regulatory authorities. The centrality and importance of 'science' …
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Statistical models of claim amount distributions in general insurance
… as possible models for the distribution of claim amounts in general insurance: 1- The lognormal 2- The Weibull 3- The inverse Gaussian (A new 3-parameter form is introduced) 4- The Pareto 5- The truncated lognormal as a model for large claim amounts) 6- The gamma (as a model for the …
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Understanding women's claim to land in an Eastern Cape Village
… this alongside the lived experiences of women claiming residential land in a rural Eastern Cape community in order to foreground the inherent shortcomings of such top down approaches and their inability to fully recognise and protect the land rights of rural women.
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Comparative Study on Patent Claim Interpretation: the United States and China
In the current U.S. and Chinese patent law, claims define the scope of patent rights. Despite the special care given to write patent claims, the meanings of claim terms are still disputed from time to time in litigation. Interpreting claims to determine the scope of a patent is the first and most …
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Two essays on consumer credit as a claim on workers’ income
This dissertation contains two chapters that study topics on the intersection of the consumer credit and labor markets. Below are the individual abstracts. Chapter 1: Does Paycheck Frequency Matter? Evidence from Micro Data Paycheck frequency is a salient labor income characteristic to which all …
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STRUGGLES OF KOREAN AMERICANS LABELED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO CLAIM ADULT STATUS
… disabilities in the study struggled to claim their adult status. I argue that being an adult entails having more chances to serve others, and that therefore a Korean community such as the one I observed would need to create more spaces for people with intellectual disabilities to serve …
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"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression
… is pressed into, the choices made and claims asserted--that may seem bizarre and ill-fitting and outrageous--are in fact the artistic and political triumph of these texts, an artistic triumph that functions as an ethical understanding and elicits a moral engagement in which we as …
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Capitalism and private nature reserves: the taming of Mala Mala land claim
… evident when looking at the manner in which land claims are settled in private nature reserves that are under a land claim. Private nature reserves have been structured to bring together capitalism's key features of property, labour and neoliberalism and therefore become interesting sites on which …
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Konsep small claim procedure untuk menyelesaikan perkara perdata permohonan (volunter) di Pengadilan Agama
… perlu adanya pembaharuan hukum, penerapan small claim procedure misalnya. Small claim procedure masih baru di Indonesia sehingga tidak ada regulasinya, khususnya small claim procedure untuk memeriksa perkara permohonan. Berdasarkan uraian tersebut peneliti tertarik melakukan penelitian untuk …
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Flowers for Abiah: Emily Dickinson's Claim to Live According to Her Own Rules
<p>Emily Dickinson is known for her poems, but her epistolary body of work is as rich and as compelling. Her letters to Abiah Root reveal Dickinson's mind behind the poet and more importantly show the progression and evolution of Dickinson's ideas and sentiments regarding Victorian societal …
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Information cards and a design to extend the claim model to incorporate geolocation
The rapid adoption of the internet has occurred despite the lack of a ubiquitous identity meta-system. The status quo is a patchwork of proprietary security systems. A number of security issues have arisen as a result which threaten to lead to a loss of trust in the internet, and may limit the …
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… of resources. Far from protective, human rights claims, explored here as "evidence," often obscure both social inequalities and the response of state-level policies to these inequalities, especially for marginalized women.
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Qazaq people embarked on the journey of reinstating their authentic ethnic and cultural identity. After a thirty-year quest for true Qazaqness, many came to believe that indigenous Qazaq identity is tightly linked to the Islamic faith. Modern …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
… studying authenticity, the framing of the land claim lodged by the San against the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa in 1995, the post-land claim settlement activities on the restituted farms, and the various issues around authenticity and traditional leadership. I will also …
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