We analyze an actuarial approach for the pricing and reserving of minimum death guarantees in unit-linked life insurance. After summarizing some results on mono-period risk measurement, we explain two possible strategies to deal with multi-period capital allocation problems. The first one uses no future information whereas the second one does. We explain how a cash-flow model can be used to per...

The important increase in breast cancer incidence in the late 1980s and throughout the 90s in Western countries resulted from childbearing and lifestyle changes imposed by the industrialized world. However, in high-income countries, breast cancer mortality has actually decreased in recent decades due to early detection, allowing women with the diagnosis to benefit from the significant advances ...

We tested the explanatory usefulness and policy relevance of Holling’s (2001) “adaptive cycle” theory in exploring processes of “collapse,” also called “release,“ and recovery in regional socialecological systems (SESs) in Zimbabwe and Australia. We found that the adaptive cycle is useful in recognizing changes in system behavior during the various phases. However, our small sample of cases did...

When, as teenagers, we visited the historic site of Vaison-la-Romaine in Southern France, the discovery of Roman capitals buried under the foundations of a mediaeval church was really astounding. How, besides reusing full blocks of the antique architecture, the builders dared reduce the most worked Roman stones to the humble function of backfill? Have new builders become totally disrespectful t...

The cities of Ērānsahr est la traduction proposee par C. G. Cereti dans un autre article egalement paru en 2020 — « Are Provincial Capitals Erānsahr really provincial capitals? », Vicino Oriente XXIV, 2020, p. 135-149 —, pour le petit traite connu sous nom de Sahrestānīhā-ye Ērānsahr, a cause tres nombreuses phrases qui commencent terme sahrestān « capitale provinciale ». Si tous les sont evide...