(insurance) A software tool that creates a set of economic assumptions (such as interest rates, inflation rates, investment returns) for use in a stochastic model.
Initialism of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. [(medicine) Any of a spectrum of birth defects and developmental disorders, including fetal alcohol syndrome, occurring in a person exposed to alcohol during pregnancy.]
A science that links geography and demography, seeking to understand the processes by which settlements and cities evolve and neighbourhoods are formed.
The study of the spatial, temporal, and political aspects of economies and resources in relation to the balance of power between nation-states and/or trading blocs
The phenomenon that human society resembles a small-world network with short path lengths, i.e. any two human beings tend to be linked through a small chain of friends of friends.
(architecture) A field of research and analysis in architecture that uses studies and details from nature or other sources to produce or create a new structure. It is used in design and architecture to imitate structures and improve them giving them a certain amount of art feeling. Structural research can be also called structural art or structural design.
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