Emerging phenomena of ubiquitous multi-source data provide promising avenues for making breakthroughs in financial risk prediction. While most existing methods for financial risk prediction are based on a single information source, which may not adequately capture various complex factors that...

Earlier work (Oster, 2005) has argued, based on existing medical literature and analysis of cross country data and vaccination programs, that parents who are carriers of hepatitis B have a higher offspring sex ratio (more boys) than non-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian...

Global warming, as a result of increased greenhouse gas emissions, is the most critical environmental issue today. More than half of the world's environmental experts participating in the 1999 United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) investigation were agreed on the crucial nature of climate...

Earlier work (Oster, 2005) has argued, based on existing medical literature and analysis of cross country data and vaccination programs, that parents who are carriers of hepatitis B have a higher offspring sex ratio (more boys) than non-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian...