Natural catastrophes attract regularly the attention of media and have become a source of public concern. From a financial viewpoint, natural catastrophes represent idiosyncratic risks, diversifiable at the world level. But for reasons analyzed in this paper reinsurance markets are unable to...

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of optimally designing three-phase induction motors. This problem can be formulated as a mixed variable programming problem. Two different solution strategies have been used to solve this problem. The first one consists in solving the continuous...

Consider the linear regression model with uncorrelated errors and an experimental design ξ. In the article, we address the problem of calculating the minimal efficiency of ξ with respect to the class [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] of orthogonally invariant information...