Current pricing of catastrophe reinsurance can provide compelling expected returns. The
securitization of catastrophe insurance risk would allow investors to pool catastrophic risk with …

Monte Carlo simulation is widely used in practice to value exotic options for which analytical
formulas are not available. When valuing those options that depend on extreme values of …

This paper describes measurements of the reflectivity, scattering, and transmission of light by
metals with rough surfaces. For surfaces whose roughness is very short ranged, the ratio of …

Excitation of surface charge waves (surface plasmons) produces intensity anomalies in the
light reflected from a metal grating. We demonstrate that coupling occurs for both s-and p-…

BACKGROUND My thesis looks at the impact of taxation on pricing in the market for British
government bonds (gilts). I address this question in the context of continuous time models for …

This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline and a critique of its recent
development. The extensively revised edition reviews major health trends, the current state of the …

… Dr Beaglehole prints the full text of Cook’s own holograph journals, followed by those of
Captains Clerke and King for the course of the voyage after Cook’s death. This is a facsimile …

The growing global burden of non-communicable diseases in poor countries and poor
populations has been neglected by policy makers, major multilateral and bilateral aid donors, and …

Because it still is widely believed that one deadly disease after another is being eliminated,
or diminished, largely because of medical interventions, there is little commitment to social …

… to death or hospital admission) in the practice population of the selected doctor.4,7 In … Rudd,
Ms W Smith, and Ms S Waite; Dr N E Anderson, Dr A Hope, Prof DE Richmond, Dr JJ Baskett…