Aggregate Shocks and Enrollment Rates over a Decade in Malawi.

In this paper we report the impact of shocks of different nature and their impact on child schooling. The study is based on project, which provide information on seven different types of shocks and along with information on schooling of boys and girls from 2008 to 2019. We found that all shocks climatic nature or otherwise have negative effect on child enrollment except in case of damage to the house substitution effect dominate and we found evidence that girls of 7-12 years of age and boys in 13-17 years of age cohort have positive correlation with this specific shock.

Pneumonia classification: A limited data approach for global understanding.

As the human race has advanced, so too have the ailments that afflict it. Diseases such as pneumonia, once considered to be basic flu or allergies, have evolved into more severe forms, including SARs and COVID-19, presenting significant risks to people worldwide. In our study, we focused on categorizing pneumonia-related inflammation in chest X-rays (CXR) using a relatively small dataset.

Tsallis Entropy for Loss Models and Survival Models Involving Truncated and Censored Random Variables.

The aim of this paper consists in developing an entropy-based approach to risk assessment for actuarial models involving truncated and censored random variables by using the Tsallis entropy measure. The effect of some partial insurance models, such as inflation, truncation and censoring from above and truncation and censoring from below upon the entropy of losses is investigated in this framework. Analytic expressions for the per-payment and per-loss entropies are obtained, and the relationship between these entropies are studied.

Striving towards environmental sustainability: how natural resources, human capital, financial development, and economic growth interact with ecological footprint in China.

On the economic side, China has attained rapid development; yet, the ecological aspects pose threats to its sustainable development. The nexus between economic growth, natural resources, human capital, and financial development has an important inference for the environment, and therefore, this endeavor examines the influence of said variables on the ecological footprint in China via adopting the novel dynamic simulated ARDL approach by utilizing the data from 1985 to 2018. The outcomes of the analysis confirm that natural resources and financial development have a considerable positive short- and long-run relation with the ecological footprint.