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Nurnberg, Hugo, and Douglas P. Lackey. "Ethical Reflections on Company-Owned Life Insurance." Journal of Business Ethics 80, no. 4 (August 1, 2007): 845–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9472-7.

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Adams, M. B., and C. N. W. Scott. "Realistic reporting of life insurance company policy liabilities and profits: developments in Anglo-American countries." Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 121, no. 2 (1994): 441–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020268100020229.

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AbstractThis paper examines international developments in life insurance generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP) for policy valuation and profit recognition in four major Anglo-American markets—the U.K., Australia, the U.S.A. and Canada. Each valuation method examined has its advantages and disadvantages with respect to the needs of preparers and users of the annual corporate reports of life insurance companies. The paper documents that the statutory basis and U.S. GAAP are considered to have substantive deficiencies. In contrast, the U.K. accruals method, the Australian margin on services method and Canadian GAAP have much to commend them, particularly with regard to their flexibility to accommodate valuation adjustments for unexpected events. Nevertheless, from the preparers' point of view, the systems which would have to be developed to facilitate the U.K. accruals and Australian margin on services methods would be difficult and costly to implement. Profit reporting under Canadian GAAP is also sensitive to changes in actuarial reserving assumptions. The authors conclude that, since national preferences in actuarial and accounting practices are inevitable and because the product-market structures of life insurance markets are so distinctive, international harmonisation of life office GAAP is unlikely to occur for a very long time.
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Butt, John, and Anita Rapone. "The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise." Economic History Review 43, no. 2 (May 1990): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2596800.

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Schweikart, Larry, and Anita Rapone. "The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise." Journal of American History 75, no. 3 (December 1988): 965. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1901645.

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Maier, Marc, Hayley Carlotto, Freddie Sanchez, Sherriff Balogun, and Sears Merritt. "Transforming Underwriting in the Life Insurance Industry." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (July 17, 2019): 9373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019373.

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Life insurance provides trillions of dollars of financial security for hundreds of millions of individuals and families worldwide. Life insurance companies must accurately assess individual-level mortality risk to simultaneously maintain financial strength and price their products competitively. The traditional underwriting process used to assess this risk is based on manually examining an applicant’s health, behavioral, and financial profile. The existence of large historical data sets provides an unprecedented opportunity for artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform underwriting in the life insurance industry. We present an overview of how a rich application data set and survival modeling were combined to develop a life score that has been deployed in an algorithmic underwriting system at MassMutual, an American mutual life insurance company serving millions of clients. Through a novel evaluation framework, we show that the life score outperforms traditional underwriting by 6% on the basis of claims. We describe how engagement with actuaries, medical doctors, underwriters, and reinsurers was paramount to building an algorithmic underwriting system with a predictive model at its core. Finally, we provide details of the deployed system and highlight its value, which includes saving millions of dollars in operational efficiency while driving the decisions behind tens of billions of dollars of benefits.
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de, Andrés-Sánchez. "Fuzzy claim reserving in non-life insurance." Computer Science and Information Systems 11, no. 2 (2014): 825–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/csis121225045a.

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This paper develops several expressions to quantify claim provisions to account in financial statements of a non-life insurance company under the hypothesis of a fuzzy environment. Concretely, by applying the expected value of a fuzzy number and the more general concept of value of a fuzzy number to the ANOVA claim predicting model [2] we estimate claim reserves to account in insurer?s balance sheet and income account.
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Gautama So, Idris, and Rosi Yosevie. "E-Proposal to Expedite Customer's Decision Making on Committing Insurance Transaction." Advanced Science Letters 21, no. 4 (April 1, 2015): 612–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.5985.

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Objectives of this paper are to analyze the current system of policies selling in a particular Life Insurance company, especially for unit link life insurance product to understand the problems or gaps in the company. According to the result of Business Inteligence (Analysis of Insurance Industry) from the particular Life Insurance, assets of the company are big enough to do some investments in technology to gain more premium income, but the fact is premium income of said Life Insurance company was not good enough if it is compared with its competitors. So based on that problem, it is needed to find the requirements of new system as a solution, then the design a new web-based application of e-proposal to customer's decision making of the Life Insurance company. Methodology which is used in this research are colecting data by library research and field research. After that, analysis based on the theory Fishbone Diagram Analysis, Critical Success Factor Analysis, and Object Oriented Analysis will be carried out. On the design phase, Object Oriented Design is used and then evaluate the result of a new system design by Eight Golden Rules of designing user interface. Result of this research is a web based application to make the distribution of proposal faster and more simple. The procedure of new system will also make the information of policies benefit can be easily accessed by Customer and Insurance Agencies, so the company will also gain customer satisfaction and loyalty. In the end, we can conclude that e-proposal is the right solution for the company to drive customer's decision making and finally will improve Life Insurace company's product selling and also increase the premium income.
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Delong, Łukasz, and Russell Gerrard. "Mean-variance portfolio selection for a non-life insurance company." Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 66, no. 2 (March 15, 2007): 339–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00186-007-0152-2.

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III, ELIJAH BREWER, and THOMAS H. MONDSCHEAN. "LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY RISK EXPOSURE: MARKET EVIDENCE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS." Contemporary Economic Policy 11, no. 4 (October 1993): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1993.tb00401.x.

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Dailey, Maceo Crenshaw. "The Business Life of Emmett Jay Scott." Business History Review 77, no. 4 (2003): 667–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30041233.

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Emmett Jay Scott was private secretary to Booker T. Washington and later became secretary treasurer of Howard University. He was involved in numerous business activities, ranging from the establishment of the National Negro Business League to the founding of an investment clearing-house, an insurance company, and an overseas trading firm. Scott also promoted the black township of Mound Bayou and backed African American entertainment enterprises. His business activities were largely unheralded, and the frustrations he encountered illustrate both the obstacles and the opportunities for black entrepreneurs in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Winn, Alisha R. "Beyond the Business: Social and Cultural Aspects of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1809.

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The dissertation research is an examination of the social and cultural dynamics of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (ALIC) in Atlanta, GA. During the Jim Crow era (and post Jim Crow era), the ALIC provided economic mobility through employment, home loans, life insurance, and community solidarity. The company was one of the largest and most successful African-American financial institution in the country during the 20th century. It was founded in 1905 by Alonzo F. Herndon, a prosperous black barber and entrepreneur who rose from enslavement to become by 1927 the wealthiest African American in Atlanta. Renamed as the Atlanta Life Financial Group (ALFG), today the insurance company remains the leading African American stock-owned insurance company in the nation. I examine how Atlanta Life employees conceptualized their relationships within the company (past and present) and the larger African American community of Atlanta, along with the role the institution played as a shared space for producing cultural identities through social interactions. I explore the multiple roles of the company that impacted the community in the past and current roles within the African American community. I also explore what the possible closing of the Herndon Home Museum mean for memories and heritage, and the Herndon family's accomplishments if the home were torn down.
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Herculano, Miguel Colburn. "Modelling long-term worker´s compensation : an application to a general insurance company." Master's thesis, Último nome, Primeiro nome. data de publicação. "Título". Dissertação de Mestrado. Universidade de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6043.

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This paper resumes the main findings from modeling life underwriting risks to which Worker´s Compensation is exposed. Models presented aim to shorten the path between ad hoc procedures in place and the new capital requirements foreseen by Solvency II. The legal framework of this line of business is primarily explained as it is determinant for modeling purposes. We then provide a discussion about risk models in use, major options, assumptions and other relevant issues that were regarded when modeling this line of business.
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Smith, Melissa Lee. "Merging Identities: A Glimpse into the World of Albert Wicker, An African American Leader in New Orleans, 1893-1928." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/606.

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The life and career of Albert Wicker, Jr. (1869-1928), reflects the growth of the new urban African-American middle class in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early years of the twentieth century. He spent his career working for advances in education while using memberships in churches, Masonic groups, insurance companies, benevolent societies, and educational leagues to achieve his personal and professional goals. The networks created by him and others along the way illustrate not only complexity of black life in New Orleans but also the growing tendency of differing ethnic groups to work together to achieve common economic, political, social objectives.
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Books on the topic "American General Life Insurance Company"

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Gus Wortham: Portrait of a leader. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

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Fogel, Richard L. Insurance regulation: The failures of four large life insurers : statement of Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Programs, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 1992.

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Newcomen Society of the United States., ed. Protective Life Corporation: Enhancing the quality of life. New York: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1997.

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Fogel, Richard L. Insurance regulation: The Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Program of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners : statement of Richard L. Fogel, Assistant Comptroller General, General Government Programs, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1992.

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Shubin, Seymour. The man from Enterprise: The story of John B. Amos, founder of AFLAC. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1998.

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920: A history of a German-American enterprise. New York: New York University Press, 1987.

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The pleasure of their company. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

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Pacult, F. Paul. American Still Life. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004.

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United, States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce Consumer Protection and Competitiveness. Development in state insurance regulation: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, July 1, 1987, general overview; July 29, 1987, life insurance company solvency; October 14, 1987, financial guarantee insurance. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1988.

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1945-, Langenbach Randolph, ed. Amoskeag: Life and work in an American factory-city. Hanover, N.H: University Press of New England, 1995.

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Wiggins, Benjamin. "Life." In Calculating Race, 8–32. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197504000.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 focuses on the early history of race-based insurance. When the Newark-based Prudential Insurance Company of America incorporated in 1875, it revolutionized the American insurance industry by offering policies to the working class for an affordable three cents per week. What made the Prudential doubly unique was that the company insured not simply industrial laborers, but also African American laborers. The company was not in the progressive vanguard, though. Rather, the Northern upstart, in contrast to its Southern competitors, simply had not thought to craft a company policy to explicitly ban African Americans from purchasing life insurance. Just five years after becoming the first insurer to cover black lives, the Prudential began to charge differential, race-based premiums and commenced a public relations effort to defend its discriminatory practices. This foundational chapter traces how the theoretical work of scientific racism became embedded in the business practices of American insurers.
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Weems, Robert E. "Racial Desegregation and Black Chicago Business." In Building the Black Metropolis. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041426.003.0012.

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Using Edward Franklin Frazier’s important 1947 essay “Human, All Too Human: How Some Negroes Have Developed Vested Interests in the System of Racial Segregation” as a reference point; this chapter examines how racial desegregation affected two black Chicago insurance companies, the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company. Frazier predicted that if racial segregation were eliminated, it would ultimately result in the decline and disappearance of African American enterprises. As the evidence indicates, Professor Frazier proved to be a fairly accurate prophet in this regard. Some of the city’s long-standing African American firms, including the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, have, indeed, been removed from the landscape of American business.
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Harris, Donal. "Hemingway’s Disappearing Style." In On Company Time. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231177726.003.0006.

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The publication of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea in Life magazine, where it sold more than two million copies in 48 hours, capstones two midcentury debates about the proper format of literature (book or magazine) and the extent to which Hemingway's literary style--and modernism in general--have become synonymous with American popular culture. Simultaneously, the rise of television forces big magazines to conceptualize themselves as a “minor” form in 1950s media culture.
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Copeland, Jack, and Jonathan Bowen. "Life and work." In The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747826.003.0007.

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A few months after Alan Turing’s tragically early death, in 1954, his colleague Geoffrey Jefferson (professor of neurosurgery at Manchester University) wrote what might serve as Turing’s epitaph: Alan in whom the lamp of genius burned so bright—too hot a flame perhaps it was for his endurance. He was so unversed in worldly ways, so childlike it sometimes seemed to me, so unconventional, so non-conform[ing] to the general pattern. His genius flared because he had never quite grown up, he was I suppose a sort of scientific Shelley. After his short but brilliant career Alan Mathison Turing’s life ended 15 days short of his fortysecond birthday.2 His ideas lived on, however, and at the turn of the millennium Time magazine listed him among the twentieth-century’s one hundred greatest minds, alongside the Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, DNA busters Crick and Watson, and Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.3 Turing’s achievements during his short lifetime were legion. Best known as the mathematician who broke some of Nazi Germany’s most secret codes, Turing was also one of the ringleaders of the computer revolution. Today, all who click, tap, or touch to open are familiar with the impact of his ideas. We take for granted that we use the same slab of hardware to shop, manage our finances, type our memoirs, play our favourite music and videos, and send instant messages across the street or around the world. In an era when ‘computer’ was the term for a human clerk who did the sums in the back office of an insurance company or science lab, Turing envisaged a ‘universal computing machine’, able to do anything that a programmer could pin down in the form of a series of instructions. He could not have foreseen this at the time, but his universal computing machine changed the way we live: it eventually caught on like wildfire, with sales of personal computers now hovering around the million a day mark. Turing’s universal machine transported us into a world where many young people have never known life without the Internet.
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Weems, Robert E. "What Goes Up Must Come Down." In The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago, 118–42. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043062.003.0006.

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In late 1929, Anthony Overton was perceived to be the nation’s most successful black businessman. Yet, by the mid-1930s, the public’s perception of Overton had shifted dramatically. The Great Depression’s negative impact on African American real estate values negatively impacted the profitability of both the Douglass National Bank and the Victory Life Insurance Company. Also, disclosure of Overton’s long-standing, unauthorized funneling of Victory Life funds into Douglass National resulted in his ouster as president of Victory Life. Moreover, despite creative efforts to keep it afloat, the Douglass National Bank ultimately became a casualty of the Depression. In the end, Anthony Overton retained control of the Overton Hygienic Manufacturing Company and the Chicago Bee newspaper but had lost the honorific moniker “the Merchant Prince of his Race.”
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Cottingham, Marion. "Diet Monitoring Software." In Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, 452–64. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch058.

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Obesity has been a known problem for over 60 years. As early as 1943, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company declared “Overweight is so common that it constitutes a national health problem of the first order.” In 1952, the American Heart association identified obesity as a cardiac risk factor (AHA, 1952). In 1974, obesity was identified as “the most important nutritional disease in the affluent countries of the world” (LANCET editorial, 1974). Over a few decades, the obesity epidemic has continually been creeping up in all developed countries around the world; this has accelerated rapidly in the last decade, and it appears to have reached a crisis level with unprecedented numbers, particularly in America, joining the overweight or obese categories (Anderson, Konz, Frederich, & Wood, 2001; Mokdad, Serdula, Dietz, Bowman, Marks, Koplan, 1999).
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Fehr, Hans, and Fabian Kindermann. "Topics in finance and risk management." In Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804390.003.0008.

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This chapter introduces basic concepts of modern finance theory and demonstrates how to apply them in complex real-world problems. Financial deals and investment decisions are typically determined under uncertainty.Therefore, although this chapter is self-contained, we have to expect some theoretical background in individual decisionmaking and optimal investment under uncertainty. We organize our discussion into four central sections. The starting point is a portfolio choice problem, where an investor has to choose between different assets with specific risk and return characteristics. We then move on to some option pricing applications. We first derive analytical formulas and then evaluate numerical procedures for pricing European and American options as well as more exotic option products. The third section elaborates on credit risk measurement and management using a corporate bond portfolio as example. In the last section we discuss mortality risk and the optimal portfolio structure of a life insurance company. This section provides different numerical approaches to find an optimal portfolio structure with many risky assets. It begins with simple measures of risk and return of a single asset and then develops decision rules to choose optimal portfolios that maximize expected utility of wealth in worlds without and with riskless borrowing and lending opportunities. The purpose of this section is to optimize a portfolio of equity shares and a risk-free investment opportunity. The investor faces the most basic two-period investment choice problem: He buys assets in the first period and these assets pay off in the next period. The problem of the investor is to choose from i = 1, . . . ,N risky assets which may be shares, bonds, real estate, etc. The gross return of each asset i is denoted by rit = qit/qit−1 − 1, where qit−1 is the first-period market price and qit − qit−1 the second-period payoff.
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Regalad, Antonio. "Investigative Reporting." In A Field Guide for Science Writers. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174991.003.0024.

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When a biotechnology executive whose company I had often written about published a memoir, I got a chance to learn how he saw journalists—in particular, me. The executive, Michael West of Advanced Cell Technology Inc., in Worcester, Massachusetts, blamed me for some disastrous publicity that had befallen his small cloning company. On page 193 of his book, The Immortal Cell (2003), he let me have it: “Antonio Regalado is more of a detective than a reporter” (emphasis added). I think Dr. West was honestly surprised by the lengths to which I had gone to find out about his company's research. ACT was at that time pioneering a controversial technology called “therapeutic cloning.” I had gone to the patent office and delved through voluminous files. I had called just about everyone who'd ever worked with the company. I'd asked impertinent questions. I wouldn't take no for an answer. Although Dr. West's book portrays me as a somewhat dastardly fellow, being called a “detective” is one of the biggest compliments I've ever been paid. What's more, I learned from his comment that the approach to reporting I had taken was very different from that of other science journalists he'd dealt with. The fact is most science journalists are concerned with explaining science to a general audience. Reporters take difficult material and present it in a way that lay readers can understand. With so much of modern life based on science, explaining it clearly is probably our community's most important objective. But sometimes we science reporters can get a little complacent. We can be too trusting of scientists' good intentions, and we forget to be skeptical. Too often, we allow Science, Nature, and the Journal of the American Medical Association to spoon-feed us the news each week. Seth Shulman, a reporter who has covered toxic waste and government censorship of science, told me that his definition of an investigative project is “a story that doesn't want to be told.” That's why leaked reports or confidential memos so often play a role in investigative reports. Sometimes a physical paper trail is the only way to find out what people were really thinking. To be a science “detective” requires a more critical view of things.
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Crouch, Dora P. "A Firm Archaeological Base for Urban History? Difficulties of Cross-Disciplinary Research." In Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072808.003.0008.

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For those who posit that cities began in the nineteenth century, an appropriate methodology for studying them is to run insurance data through computers, generating statistics and calling the results history. But if our interest extends deep into the past, to Roman or Greek cities or to the first cities of the Yucatan, Mesopotamia, or China, then we are forced to find ways to deal with quite different sorts of evidence. In the Old World there are deciphered or decipherable written records in many cases; in the New World little written evidence. In both the Old and New Worlds, the chief evidence for ancient urbanism is the physical remains of the city, with the paraphernalia of daily life. Like other forms of human knowledge, archaeology over the past thirty years has become increasingly conscious of its methodology, goals, biases, and problems. The questions being asked and the solutions being sought today reflect some shifts in consciousness and in method. The identification of one's assumptions and biases is part of the new mode of research. Nowhere is this shift better revealed than at a site like Morgantina, Sicily, where excavation has extended over more than thirty years, as frequently reported in the American Journal of Archaeology since 1957. This site represents an opportunity for studying ordinary urban settlements of the Greek world, just as a modern sociologist might prefer to study Dayton, Ohio, rather than Los Angeles, as a typical American city. Morgantina is a fine test case for the use of archaeological data as the basis of urban history. Some general conclusions may be drawn from this evidence about the problems and opportunities of cross-disciplinary investigation. Since 1977, I have hunted through thirty years of excavation records from Morgantina, looking for the occasional fact about water system elements. Gradually I have come to realize that the data from Morgantina were gathered to verify certain written records from ancient times. The data collected would be very different if at the beginning the excavators had asked more anthropological or geographical questions, such as, “Since water is essential for human settlement, what features of this site provide for that need? And what human interventions were made; that is, what structures were built?”
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Goldsmith, Jack, and Tim Wu. "Introduction: Yahoo!" In Who Controls the Internet? Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195152661.003.0004.

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Marc Knobel is a French Jew who has devoted his life to fighting neo-Nazism, a fight that has taken him repeatedly to the Internet and American websites. In February 2000, Knobel was sitting in Paris, searching the Web for Nazi memorabilia. He went to the auction site of yahoo.com, where to his horror he saw page after page of swastika arm bands, SS daggers, concentration camp photos, and even replicas of the Zyklon B gas canisters. He had found a vast collection of Nazi mementos, for sale and easily available in France but hosted on a computer in the United States by the Internet giant Yahoo. Two years earlier, Knobel had discovered Nazi hate sites on America Online and threatened a public relations war. AOL closed the sites, and Knobel assumed that a similar threat against Yahoo would have a similar effect. He was wrong. AOL, it turned out, was atypical. Located in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, AOL had always been sensitive to public relations, politics, and the realities of government power. It was more careful than most Internet companies about keeping offensive information off its sites. Yahoo, in contrast, was a product of Silicon Valley’s 1990s bubble culture. From its origins as the hobby of Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo by 2000 had grown to be the mighty “Lord of the Portals.” At the time, Yahoo was the Internet entrance point for more users than any other website, with a stock price, as 2000 began, of $475 per share. Yang, Yahoo’s billionaire leader, was confident and brash—he “liked the general definition of a yahoo: ‘rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.’” Obsessed with expanding market share, he thought government dumb, and speech restrictions dumber still. Confronted by an obscure activist complaining about hate speech and invoking French law, Yang’s company shrugged its high-tech shoulders. Mark Knobel was not impressed. On April 11, 2000, he sued Yahoo in a French court on behalf of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism and others. Yahoo’s auctions, he charged, violated a French law banning trafficking in Nazi goods in France.
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The role of incentives in encouraging workplace HIV/AIDS policies and programs. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/hiv15.1007.

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This brief examines the role of incentives in encouraging companies in Thailand to adopt workplace policies and programs that address AIDS-related stigma and discrimination and respond to the needs of workers for information and services. The research was a collaboration between the Horizons Program, American International Assurance (AIA), the Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS (TBCA), and AusAID. After the initiative was launched (known as the AIDS-response Standard Organization), TBCA staff built relationships with company managers to explain and promote the advantages of joining. Companies agreeing to implement at least three HIV/AIDS workplace policies would receive a reduction of 5–10 percent off group life insurance premiums from AIA, Thailand’s largest insurance provider, if they were AIA clients. As the initiative evolved, TBCA introduced the additional incentive of a certificate endorsed by the government and awarded at a high-profile public ceremony. For each company agreeing to participate, TBCA offered assistance to enhance their activities, including providing educational leaflets, videos, and a mobile exhibition, as well as condoms, peer education training, counseling and referrals to support groups for HIV-positive employees, and assistance with writing company HIV/AIDS policies.
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