Author Spotlight: Lorenzo Serafini

Memoir of Italo Serafini

Almost a year has passed since the death of italo Serafini but his memory lives on. in fact, having got over the emotional distress coming from his demise, that seemed unacceptable even though inevitable, we can now sedately pay homage to him as a maestro, colleague and friend. There can be no doubt that professionally he gave infinitely more than he received. For years he was the pre-eminent i...

1205-1211 Lorenzo LAJP 3261:Lorenzo

An observational, longitudinal and prospective study was carried out from October 2011 to March 2012 in order to evaluate the adequacy of thromboembolic prophylaxis prescribed in an Emergency Department according to the PRETEMED (Prevention of thromboembolic venous disease in medical patients) guide. For each patient an adjusted risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) was calculated and the clinic...

Lorenzo Magnani

What distinguishes abductive inference from other modes of inference? What distinguishes the different forms of abductive inference? These are perhaps the key questions that face the student of abduction, and the core of Lorenzo Magnani’s book is devoted to them. The book contains, among other things, a defence of several putative distinctions, and it touches on an impressively wide range of pe...

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TailCoR Lorenzo RICCI

We introduce TailCoR, a new measure for tail correlation that is a function of linear and non–linear contributions, the latter characterized by the tails. TailCoR can be exploited in a number of financial applications, such as portfolio selection where the investor faces risks of linear and tail nature –a case that we cover in detail. Moreover, TailCoR has the following advantages: i) it is exa...