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... link the sales of annuities and medical care Chapter 16 provides a general analysis of sequential annuity markets and proposes a new financial instrument The analysis generalizes the ... retirement against longevity risks. In the United States today, a 65-year-old man and woman can expect to live to age 81 and 85, respectively, and there is a substantial variation in survival probabilities ... a single premium became a popular method of funding the nearly constant war that characterized that period There are records of a form of annuity called a tontine, which was an annuity

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... determinants of mortality. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 11963, January. Davidoff, T., J. R. Brown, and P. A. Diamond. 2005. Annuities and individual welfare. American ... effects and, 3–4; insurance, 82 (see also insurance); low returns and, 35; medical prices and, 54; no late transactions and, 138–40; partial annuitization and, 33–34; replacement rates and, 2–3; ... worth of, 10; moral hazard and, 51–55, 79–80; no-arbitrage condition and, 5, 24–25, 60–62, 70–71; optimum taxation of, 125–28; options and, xv, 9; partial annuitization and, 33–35; payout terms and,

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... [66] M. A. Grepl, Y. Maday, N. C. Nguyen, and A. T. Patera. Effcients reduced-basis treatment of nonaffine and nonlinear partial differential equation. Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, ... discussions and for all the fun we have had in the past several years. I would also like to thank to all staff members at SMA office and specially Michael, Belmond, Nora, Juliana, Lyn, Nurdiana for ... Thangam and N. Hur. A highly-resolved numerical study of turbulent separated flow past a backward-facing step. International Journal of Engineering Science, 29(5):607–615, 1991. [85] S. Karaa and

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... because it has a lot of build-in control strategies and analysis tools, both linear and nonlinear. There are two possibilities to co-simulate the controller and the system using MSC.ADAMS and Matlab/SIMULINK. ... Tracking a Locally Predictable Target among Obstacles, In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics and Automation, May, 2006. • Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Yuan Ping Li, Marcelo H. Ang Jr., Stealth Tracking ... technical paper on robotics. Also thanks to Drs. Koh Niak Wu and Mana Seadan for their help along the way. Other sources of inspiration and knowledge have come from Mr. T. Bandyopadhyay, Professor

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... present the standard pragmatic approach to metaphor and, most importantly, various lines of criticism against this approach As an alternative theory of metaphor in a pragmatic framework, ... Thoughts and Feelings by Able Autistic, Mentally Handicapped and Normal Children and Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 24 12954 1995 Understanding Minds and Metaphors: Insights ... Studies of Literal and Figurative Language. Journal of Pragmatics 31 91929 2002 Literal vs Figurative Language: Different or Equal? Journal of Pragmatics 34 487506 Giora, Rachel and Ofer Fein

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... is advantageous [11, 12] Results indicate that an atypical early bias for detailed spatial information (“enhanced perceptual theory? ?? of Mottron et  al [9, 10]) in ASD may affect development of ... toward a goal This allows a person to break out of habitual behaviour patterns, make decisions and evaluate risks, plan for the future, prioritise and sequence actions, and cope with novel situations ... developmental disabilities are almost two times greater than for typically developing (TD) children and the effects of sexual abuse may be exacerbated by social isolation and alienation [24] Another

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... for actions, strategies and conjectures and (statistical) decision rule The BEIC approach is capable of analyzing a larger set of games than current games theory, including games with noisy inaccurate ... held research and teaching positions in Academia Sinica (Taiwan), National Taiwan University and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) He was the recipient of Lee Foundation Scholarship ... that is based upon Bayesian rationality This new game theoretic rationality includes rationality in actions and strategies, rationality in prior and posterior beliefs and, rationality in statistical

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... studies by Han et al., Wang et al., Broderick et al., Di Bernardo et al include different sets of data, and each set of data was treated as a separate case? ?control study in this metaanalysis (Table ... polymorphisms and cancer risk, we performed a metaanalysis of all available case -control studies Methods Literature search strategy We searched the PubMed and Web of Science databases for all relevant articles ... cancer and haematological malignancies susceptibility: a meta-analysis of 19 case? ?control studies Songtao Wang1†, Qing Yan1†, Pin Chen1, Peng Zhao1* and Aihua Gu2,3* Abstract Background: Research

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... agitation was started in multiple levels – Satyagraha Andolan, Hal Joal Andolan and the Tusu Satyagraha Andolan (De 2007) The slogan of the movement was “Shun Bihari-bhai, Tora Rakhte Larbi Dang ... Giving an example of the cleanliness of her own lane, Moumita assured me that the areas where the Brahmins and Kayasthas are residing are always neat and clean and the people maintain a decorum ... club area and Ashu sohish lane They had a very different perception regarding the tap space of the one and only municipality tap that was located in Alangidanga As Bhakti Charan Das remarks,

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... 158 loss of position at Graz, 152–153 mainstream interpretation of quantum mechanics and, 119–120 as man of contradictions, 4–5 mathematics and, 17 at Naturforscherversammlung, 91 Nazis and, 127–128, ... Konenkova, Margarita, 184 Kuhn, Thomas, 219 Ladenburg, Rudolf, 135 Lagrangian formulation, 57–58, 171–172, 173 general unitary theory and, 189, 190 Lagrangians, 226–227 Landau, Jacob, 196 Large Hadron ... Michal Mayer, Faye Flam, Dave Goldberg, Mark Wolverton, Brian Siano, and Neil Gussman, is most appreciated Thanks to historians of science David C Cassidy, Diana Buchwald, Tilman Sauer, Daniel

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... eigenvalues.3 If scalar O and row and column vectors z and q have a relationship with A as zA = Oz and Aq = Oq, then O is an eigenvalue of A and z and q are the left and right eigenvectors of A corresponding ... (classical, neoclassicals, and Marxian) In the second half of the chapter, the authors present what they call the “state variable representation” of a class of linear dynamic systems and advocate ... Analysis of the Theory of Value and Distribution Japan: Springer Meyer, C (2001) Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra USA: SIAM Pasinetti, L (1977) Lectures on the Theory of Production USA: Columbia

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... popular American and Vietnamese reality TV shows. The research is carried out based on the combination of a variety of methods namely qualitative, quantitative, statistics, descriptive, analytic, ... Phrase Types in AOSs and VOSs 47 Table 4.8 Sentence Types in AOSs and VOSs 56 Table 4.9 Vocatives in AOSs and VOSs 66 Table 4.10 Reiteration of Lexican Items in AOSs and VOSs 67 Table 4.11 Grammatical ... the masters of ceremonies in American and Vietnamese reality television (TV) shows. The data for analysis in this thesis are 160 examples of opening and closing speeches in American English and

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... even many cultural and social aspects It is crucial for a translator to fully understand all the denotations and connotations of a word so that he can avoid making any loss of connotative meanings ... man’s emotions, man’s mental and physical state, man’s actions and man’s ways of CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2.1 PREVIOUS RESEARCH Many authors had written a number of ... pragmatic and sociocultural features of each subtype of words: noun, verb, adjective, and adverb - The grammatical, semantic, pragmatics and sociocultural features of words denoting female characteristics

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... International Trade A quotation from Karl Marx Caravans and trading posts The world market Marts, trades halls and exchanges, fairs and expositions Commodity exchanges, warrants, and transactions ... and indirect exchange Barter and money... phenomena in a limited geographical area (England and France in particular), and about which there was considerable disagreement among the adherents ... Production as creative Capital and profit Labor and wages The “wages-fund” theory The “iron law of wages.” The labor theory of value “Social injustice.” xv 29 xvi Table of Contents 5 Money and

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... infection and a leading cause of death in persons with HIV-infection Persons with undiagnosed, untreated, and potentially infectious (contagious) TB are often seen in HIV care settings Health care ... and are carried to all parts of the body, where they grow and cause disease in multiple sites Common symptoms of TB disease are persistent cough, bloody sputum, weight loss or loss of appetite, ... begins when TB organisms in the droplet nuclei reach the small air sacs of the lung called alveoli The lungs and the alveoli TB infection means that tubercle bacilli are in the body but

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... works that the artist himself was aware of. Often paintings contain homages to earlier artists and this concept of homage fits what we have said about caricature: the later artist makes a caricature ... Ramachandran and William Hirstein The Science of Art A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience We present a theory of human artistic experience and the neural mechanisms that mediate it. Any ... the artist to abstract the ‘essential features’ of an image and discard redundant information is essentially iden - tical to what the visual areas themselves have evolved to do. 17 V.S. RAMACHANDRAN

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... is variability in coverage among states. Additionally, there are racial and ethnic disparities in childhood vaccination rates—Asian and Pacific Islander (API), Hispanic, and African American ... state and local governments, professional organizations, health-care organizations, and educational institutions) to develop hepatitis B and hepatitis C educational programs for health-care and ... National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Health and Human Services and by the Task Force for Child Survival and Development on behalf of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. Any...

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... includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and ... Weinbaum, and David Bell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Chris Taylor and Martha Saly, National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable; Lorren Sandt, Car- ing Ambassadors Program; Joan Block, ... Prevention and Control of Hepatitis B and C http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12793.html SUMMARY 3 1. There is a lack of knowledge and awareness about chronic viral hepatitis on the part of health-care and...

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