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This collection of articles addresses the most modern forms of loss reserving methodology: granular models and machine learning models. New methodologies come with questions about their applicability. These questions are discussed in one article, which focuses on the relative merits of granular and machine learning models. Others illustrate applications with real-world data. The examples include neural networks, which, though well known in some disciplines, have previously been limited in the actuarial literature. This volume expands on that literature, with specific attention to their application to loss reserving. For example, one of the articles introduces the application of neural networks of the gated recurrent unit form to the actuarial literature, whereas another uses a penalized neural network. Neural networks are not the only form of machine learning, and two other papers outline applications of gradient boosting and regression trees respectively. Both articles construct loss reserves at the individual claim level so that these models resemble granular models. One of these articles provides a practical application of the model to claim watching, the action of monitoring claim development and anticipating major features. Such watching can be used as an early warning system or for other administrative purposes. Overall, this volume is an extremely useful addition to the libraries of those working at the loss reserving frontier.

n/a --- granular models --- neural networks --- actuarial --- payments per claim incurred --- risk pricing --- machine learning --- claim watching --- loss reserving --- gradient boosting --- predictive modeling --- classification and regression trees --- individual models --- individual claims reserving

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This is a collection of articles by established scholars in the fields of History, Philosophy, Literature and Religious Studies. These are original essays which address the issues and concerns that now dominate the study of religion in its multiple dimensions with a fresh approach. They critique settled opinions and raise new and engaging questions concerning cultural hermeneutics and the academic study of religion. Embellished with a substantive and topical introduction by the editor, this collection of articles will be of abiding interest to scholars and interested lay persons alike.

John Robert Seeley --- Bankimchandra Chatterjee --- natural religions --- hagiography --- auto/biography --- Victorian Jesus --- carita as genre --- life narratives in colonial Bengal --- Krishnacaritra --- secularism --- Swami Vivekananda --- Jyotirmaya Sharma --- Hindu nationalism --- Hindutva --- religious pluralism --- religious inclusivism --- caste system --- Sri Ramakrishna --- Bābā Farīd --- bhakti --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn ‘Arabī --- Rabindranath Tagore --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Sufism --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- commentary --- Caitanya --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- digital Hinduism --- god posters --- Shani --- Hindu images --- Hinduism and mediatization --- Bengal --- Vaiṣṇava --- colonial --- gender --- women --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Advaita --- Upaniṣads --- brahman --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi --- Hinduism --- Vedanta --- philosophy of religion --- yoga --- n/a --- Bābā Farīd --- Bhāgavata-purāṇa --- Bulleh Shāh --- Caṇḍīdās --- Hīr-Rāṇjhā --- Ibn 'Arabī --- Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa --- Rūmī --- Vaiṣṇavism --- Vidyāpati --- virahiṇī --- Wāris Shāh --- Yūsuf-Zulaikhā --- Śrīdhara --- Bhāgavata --- Purāṇa --- Gauḍīya --- Jīva Gosvāmī --- Vaiṣṇava --- Srīkanḍa --- gaura nāgara vāda --- Viṣnupriyā --- Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa --- Vedānta --- Ādi Śaṁkara --- Upaniṣads --- ātman --- Śakti --- vijñāna --- samādhi

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Este libro reseña la evolución que ha sufrido el Infonavit desde su creación en 1972 y analiza de manera detallada los cambios puestos en marcha durante la administración en cabezada por Víctor Manuel Borrás de 2001 a 2006. A lo largo de sus capítulos se recorren las distintas etapas por las que la institución ha atravesado destacando su particular estatus de entidad pública gobernada por una estructura tripartita en la que están representados los sectores obrero y empresarial, así como el gubernamental. Los movimientos tripartitas surgen en Europa desde el siglo XIX y van a desarrollarse y revalidar sus propuestas en áreas específicas, como la vivienda. El Propósito del libro es recoger de la manera más objetiva posible la experiencia modernizadora puesta en marcha en las últimas décadas y en particular la desarrollada durante la administración 2001-2006, reforma que buscaba recuperar la vocación esencial del Instituto manteniendo su fuerte compromiso social, pero operando de manera eficiente.

Sociology of environment --- Social policy --- anno 2000-2009 --- Mexico --- Housing policy --- INFONAVIT (Agency) --- Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (Mexico) --- Mexico. --- I.N.F.O.N.A.V.I.T. --- National Workers' Housing Fund Institute (Mexico) --- History of the Americas

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Mercury is a global pollutant that affects the health of both humans and ecosystems. This Special Issue collects three review papers and six research articles that report on the latest findings on the mechanisms of mercury toxicology and its impacts on environmental health. This collection of papers provides useful, new information on the mechanisms of mercury toxicity and methods of improving the risk assessment of mercury exposure.

toxicity --- Cd --- n/a --- chemokine --- sympathodominant state --- child development --- mRNA --- exposure assessment --- methylmercury --- Pb --- prenatal exposure --- heart rate variability --- review --- cortical precursors --- CCL4 --- Fish --- delayed toxicity --- dose-response relationship --- Hg --- severity --- low-dose exposure --- long term exposure --- methylmercury neurotoxicity --- brain --- correlation of signs and symptoms --- developmental neurotoxicity --- symptoms --- molecular mechanisms --- neurological findings --- delayed effects --- kinetics --- fetus --- oxidative stress --- mercury vapor --- metallothionein-III

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Natural products have been a source of inspiration for chemists and chemical biologists for many years, and have a special relevance in the chemical space. In recent years, several novel synthetic strategies have appeared, such as diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS), biological-oriented synthesis (BiOS), and function-oriented synthesis (FOS), for accessing complex and functionally diverse molecules. In this manner, the synthesis of natural products has evolved towards simpler and ecological methods using biotransformation, combinatorial chemistry, or organocatalysts. In this issue, Prof. Chojnacka shows demonstrates the use of immobilized lipases as catalysts to aid in the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine enriched with myristic acid. Profs. Vila and Pedro used catalysts derived from (S)-mandelic acid to achieve the catalytic enantioselective addition of dimethylzinc to isatins. Prof. Diez shows the possibility of the obtention of 7,8-carvone epoxides in a diastereoselective manner using proline, quinidine, and diphenylprolinol as organocatalysts. A cheap, simple, clean, and scalable method involves the use of deep eutectic mixtures as reaction media, and Profs. Alonso and Guillena describe the use of this methodology for the enantioselective, organocatalyzed ?-amination of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. Biotransformations have been one of the methodologies for more efficient synthesis of natural products. Prof. Wu transforms ergostane triterpenoid antcin K using Psychrobacillus sp. Ak 187. Finally, Prof. Kovayashi reviews the total synthesis and biological evaluation of phaeosphaerides. The reader, through this issue, could gain an idea of the new directions that the synthesis of natural products using catalysts will have in the years to come.

n/a --- structured phosphatidylcholine --- carvone --- immobilized lipases --- trimyristin --- 3-hydroxyoxindole --- green chemistry --- structural revision --- anticancer --- triterpenoid --- organocatalysis --- natural products --- epoxidation --- ?-amination --- benzimidazole --- total synthesis --- zinc --- Antrodia cinnamomea --- aminocatalysis --- epoxide --- asymmetric organocatalysis --- mandelamides --- STAT3 --- asymmetric catalysis --- Psychrobacillus --- isatin --- chiral ?-hydroxyamide --- interesterification --- proline --- phaeosphaeride B --- biotransformation --- phaeosphaeride A --- myristic acid --- egg-yolk phosphatidylcholine --- acidolysis --- antcin K --- deep eutectic solvents