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The Chain-Ladder model is the most widely used technique for property and casualty insurance to estimate unpaid claims, including incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims. In this project, inspired by…

Three economic experiments are used to answer questions about human decision making: when to pay attention, when to complete a task, and when to enroll in second year university. Chapter 1 explores…

The rise of the radical right parties in Europe has led these parties to become major players in the parliamentary sessions, either in helping to form government or as major opposition parties. The…

Coral reefs are being impacted by ocean warming and marine heatwaves caused by climate change, leading to the loss and degradation of these ecologically and economically important ecosystems globally…

Robots and artificial agents that interact with humans should be able to do so without bias and inequity, but facial perception systems have notoriously been found to work more poorly for certain…

The discretization of surface intrinsic PDEs has challenges that one might not face in flat spaces. The closest point method (CPM) is an embedding method that represents surfaces using a function…

Scheduling latency-sensitive applications in large-scale datacenters is challenging. Current approaches use application-layer schedulers, which impose high overheads and result in long latencies. We…

Microplastics are an emerging environmental pollutant of concern because of their potential effects on biota, their ubiquity, and their persistence in the environment. Characterizing their occurrence…

A general mathematical/numerical methodology was developed for paper-based, microfluidic electrochemical flow cells. The methodology involves capillary flow, imbibition, mass transport, and…

Linear Programming (LP) and Integer Linear Programming (ILP) have increasingly been used in computational and systems biology methods in the past 24 years. From RNA and protein structure prediction…

Danger ratings are used across many fields to convey the severity of a hazard. In avalanche risk management, danger ratings play a prominent role in public bulletins where they concisely describe…

Humans are lifelong learners, we acquire and accumulate knowledge throughout our lives. In contrast to human learning, neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting: when adapted to…

Allegories of through: Abisal and Tejedora, is a dual, side by side installation based on the analysis of two frames for thinking identity, the Abyssal frame and the Nahua´s frame. The first…

Checkerboard Creek rock slope is a very slow-moving bedrock landslide located 1.5 km upstream of the Revelstoke Dam, on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada. This thesis presents the…

Although the vast majority of synthetic flocking models assume that agents in a flock are homogeneous, biologists have shown that this is not the case in real flocks. Mixed-species flocks, for…

Perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) based ionomers such as Nafion® are the technological standard for use in state-of-the-art proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) because of its high proton…

Humans have three types of β-glucosidases (GBA) enzymes named GBA1, GBA2, and GBA3 that break down glucosylceramide (GlcCer). Studies have suggested that GBA2 is involved in Gaucher disease via…

Neural networks have been successful on many individual tasks. However, they work poorly on a sequential stream of tasks when they do not have access to the previous data. This problem is called…

Rural communities are more vulnerable to climate change shocks and stresses due to community-based vulnerabilities associated with low and ageing populations, out-migration of youth, less funding…

Chronic pain is a significant health issue that negatively affects the quality of life of many individuals around the world and its prevalence is increasing each year especially among the older…