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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces
Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24
/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu provinces in Central China between …. Research limitations/implications – This research is based on primary data gathered in China. However, the authors are limited … weather data from the weather station in Ashland, Kansas which has similarities to the wheat growing regions of China. While …
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Cropping systems as water harvesting techniques for barley production in arid and semi‐arid areas in Jordan
Abu‐Nukta, Ali; Sertyesilisik, Begum; Alkhaddar, Rafid - In: Journal of Facilities Management 7 (2009) 4, pp. 319-331
‐arid to arid. Annual average rainfall in the area is not enough for the survival of barley and farmers are usually grassing … land can be used to supplement the rainfall to the cultivated land. This increases the share of runoff on the cultivated …
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Introduction of weather‐derivative concepts: perspectives for Portugal
Ghiulnara, Alieva; Viegas, Cristina - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 11 (2010) 1, pp. 9-19
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of weather derivatives markets and to highlight the importance of the contributing factors for weather risk management such as weather sensitivity, weather forecast, and economic growth. In this paper, the prospective of using...
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Modelling rain risk: a multi‐order Markov chain model approach
Stowasser, Markus - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 13 (2011) 1, pp. 45-60
importance of the model order for the pricing of a rainfall index put option. Design/methodology/approach – For the first time a … criteria analysis of rainfall data for one weather station in the US. The outcome of this model is compared to simpler Markov …‐order model. Clear differences between the daily simulation and the burn method are found when pricing a put option on a rainfall …
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Quantifying spatial basis risk for weather index insurance
Norton, Michael T.; Turvey, Calum; Osgood, Daniel - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 14 (2012) 1, pp. 20-34
Purpose – The purpose of this paper to develop an empirical methodology for managing spatial basis risk in weather index insurance by studying the fundamental causes for differences in weather risk between distributed locations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper systematically compares...
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A spatial Bayesian approach to weather derivatives
Paulson, Nicholas D.; Hart, Chad E.; Hayes, Dermot J. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 1, pp. 79-96
rainfall model utilizing spatial kriging and Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques is proposed to estimate rainfall histories … richer set of results. Furthermore, while the application is specific to forage production in Iowa, the rainfall model could …
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Using weather derivatives to hedge precipitation exposure
Leggio, Karyl B. - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 4, pp. 246-252
previously unmanageable risk events caused by natural phenomenon such as excessive rainfall. Design/methodology/approach – The …
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Design and Implementation of a Robust Acoustic Recognition System for Waterbird Species using TMS320C6713 DSK
Boulmaiz, Amira; Messadeg, Djemil; Doghmane, Noureddine; … - In: International Journal of Ambient Computing and … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 98-118
In this paper, a new real-time approach for audio recognition of waterbird species in noisy environments, based on a Texas Instruments DSP, i.e. TMS320C6713 is proposed. For noise estimation in noisy water bird's sound, a tonal region detector (TRD) using a sigmoid function is introduced. This...
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A Decision Support System for Classification of Normal and Medical Renal Disease Using Ultrasound Images: A Decision Support System for Medical Renal Diseases
Sharma, Komal; Virmani, Jitendra - In: International Journal of Ambient Computing and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 52-69
Early detection of medical renal disease is important as the same may lead to chronic kidney disease which is an irreversible stage. The present work proposes an efficient decision support system for detection of medical renal disease using small feature space consisting of only second order...
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Generative Model Based Video Shot Boundary Detection for Automated Surveillance
Chakraborty, Biswanath; Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha; … - In: International Journal of Ambient Computing and … 9 (2018) 4, pp. 69-95
Video shot boundary detection (SBD) or video cut detection is one of the fundamental processes of video-processing with respect to semantic understanding, contextual information accumulation, labeling, content-based information retrieval and many more applications, such as video surveillance and...
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