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Some Comments on QIS3.
Full text linkIn this paper we discuss some issues proposed in the Solvency II - QIS3 report. In particular we comment and discuss the \AISAM-ACME study on non-life long tail liabilities; reserve risk and risk margin assessment under Solvency II". In the latter study the reserve risk calculation of non-life long tail insurers is investigated, based on a sample of 45 supervised European insurance companies. We start by giving an overview of risk measures used in a solvency environment. Next, we show that the Value-at-Risk measure is the solution of a general optimization problem. In a way this supports the current regulatory regime for banking supervision established by the Basel Capital Accord and the Solvency II regulatory regime under construction. Indeed, both have put forward a Value-at-Risk-based capital requirement approach. In the following Section, we confirm the findings of the AISAM-ACME study that, with respect to reserve risk, a loading for solvency amounting to 15% of the reserves, as put forward in QIS3, might be too high. Next, we discuss the concept of one-year volatility, which is crucial in the context of Solvency II. Also, the relation between a long term VaR and the corresponding short term VaR is explored. To conclude, we illustrate the fact that a long tail business should in many cases lead to a lower solvency capital requirement compared to a short tail business with a comparable amount of liabilities.Solvency II; reserve risk;
Research data management at Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo: Current status and future perspectives
No full textThe Bolivian Catholic University San Pablo is a relatively young university with emerging research, the present study provides a general look at the current state of research data management by conducting a survey of researchers and managers. The researchers surveyed were mostly from the engineering area and managers from social areas, this influenced the results in the fact that there are differences in the perceptions between both groups of respondents, the most notable of which is in the amount of storage required by the researchers. Taking into account that almost 45% of researchers state that they have sometimes generated sensitive research data, it is striking that nearly 80% have not had agreements for the reuse of data and that the ownership of the data is unknown. Both researchers and managers consider that training is important, this will help to manage research data management plans in the future
Implementing Widely-used Vocabularies to Produce Linked Open Data in the Context of Open Repositories
Full text linkPresentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014EPrints Interest Group PresentationsThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations works to provide support to agricultural information communities to build and maintain open repositories that meet recommended metadata standards and controlled vocabularies. To this end, FAO set up partnerships with organizations working in this field. The most recent work focus on the implementation of an authority tool in the submission process of Eprints Software . Its purpose is to facilitate the use of controlled vocabularies published as Linked Open Data, and the exposure of data on the Semantic Web . This project has been technically implemented by the University of Southampton in partnership with FAO, UNESCO-IOC/IODE and Hasselt University Library .Halabi, Nawar (University of Southampton)Leinders, Dirk (Hasselt University Library)Goovaerts, Marc (Hasselt University Library)Well, Andrew (University of Southampton)Subirats Coll, Imma (FAO of the United Nations, Italy
Research data management at Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo: Current status and future perspectives
No full textThe Bolivian Catholic University San Pablo is a relatively young university with emerging research, the present study provides a general look at the current state of research data management by conducting a survey of researchers and managers. The researchers surveyed were mostly from the engineering area and managers from social areas, this influenced the results in the fact that there are differences in the perceptions between both groups of respondents, the most notable of which is in the amount of storage required by the researchers. Taking into account that almost 45% of researchers state that they have sometimes generated sensitive research data, it is striking that nearly 80% have not had agreements for the reuse of data and that the ownership of the data is unknown. Both researchers and managers consider that training is important, this will help to manage research data management plans in the future
On Metadata Quality in Sceiba, a Platform for Quality Control and Monitoring of Cuban Scientific Publications
No full textIt is introduced a platform for quality control and monitoring of Cuban scientific publications named Sceiba. To this end, it needs to collect scientific publications comprehensively at the national level. Metadata quality is crucial for Sceiba interoperability and development. This paper exposes how metadata quality is assured and enhanced in Sceiba. The metadata aggregation pipeline is worked out to collect, transform, store and exposemetadata on Persons, Organizations, Sources, and Scientific Publications. Raw data transformation into Sceiba's internal metadata models includes cleaning, disambiguation, deduplication, entity linking, validation, standardization, and enrichment using a semi-automated approach aligned with the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability principles. To meet the requirements of metadata quality in Sceiba, a three-layer structure for metadata is used, including 1) discovery metadata, which allows the discovery of relevant scientific publications by browsing or query, 2) contextual metadata, which allows a) rich information on persons, organizations and other aspects associated with publications, b) interoperation among common metadata formats used in Current Research Information Systems, journals systems or Institutional Repositories; 3) detailed metadata, which is specific to the domain of scientific publication evaluation. The example provided shows how the metadata quality is improved in the Identification System for CubanResearch Organizations, one of Sceiba ' s component applications.The work of the Sceiba project was supported by the ‘Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad - Universitaire Ontwikkelingssamenwerking’ (VLIR-UOS), Belgium. The authors are team members of the Sceiba project. They like to thank Sadia Van Cauwenbergh (Hasselt University) and Raf Guns (Antwerp University) for their suggestions on the article and to the Sceiba team of the University of Pinar del Rio for their contribution to the development of the Sceiba platform
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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