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Solvency II survey 2011 insurers responses to evolving rules

Solvency II survey 2011 insurers responses to evolving rules

Ngày tải lên : 06/12/2015, 23:12
... 2009 Yet much preparatory work remains to be done as organisations, along with their local regulators, continue to wait for the regulatory requirements for implementation to be finalised While ... very grateful to the EIU and to all participants for their contribution to this research I hope you find the Solvency II Survey 2011 useful – please contact me if you would like to discuss any ... handed over to the IT development teams and delivery plans are being developed These plans are now showing that either timescales are going to have to move or scope is going to have to be reduced...
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An investigation into some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation

An investigation into some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2012, 14:54
... the United States? (Q) B: Thats too easy (C to Q) A: No it isnt (C to C) B: George Washington (A to Q) In this study, we try to isolate some types of responses to questions which have the illocutionary ... responding to question They are: direct and indirect responses, refusals to answer, challenges to the presupposition of question, responses to implicit meaning of the question and some special responses: ... job; we are working together and have to go on business trips Overall, both English and Vietnamese males and females pay more attention to give direct responses to questions To avoid giving the...
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food neophobia among the finns and related responses to familiar and unfamiliar foods

food neophobia among the finns and related responses to familiar and unfamiliar foods

Ngày tải lên : 03/04/2013, 21:06
... willingness to try genetically modi®ed tomato, although it was clearly of plant origin Responses to LoR chocolate bar and to FlavSavR tomato suggest that the FNS scores may predict responses to unfamiliar ... Finland); and FlavSavR tomato which was claimed to be genetically modi®ed These three foods were included to examine how speci®cally the food neophobia scale re¯ects consumer responses to ethnic vs other ... two factors (Table 1) The ®rst is related to the interest (or disinterest) in trying new and ethnic foods The second appears to relate to a general concern vs carelessness with respect to trying...
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A comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia

A comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia

Ngày tải lên : 22/10/2013, 10:15
... human responses to floods IFA aggregates and compares results of country-based research in order to further explore the problem How to strengthen capacities and performance of institutions to reduce ... how to effectively shape human institutional responses to the risk of natural disasters with a special focus on floods In Asia, human vulnerability to natural disasters and, particularly, to those ... the state to come to the rescue In more wealthy countries like Japan state guarantees have allowed significant entry by the private sector into insuring against flood disasters (Kitamoto et al...
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Checkpoint and Coordinated Cellular Responses to DNA Damage

Checkpoint and Coordinated Cellular Responses to DNA Damage

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2013, 21:20
... of ATR to chromatin Similarly, in Xenopus extracts RPA is also needed for the recruitment of ATR to DNA lesions generated by etoposide (Costanzo et al 2003), a DNA topoisomerase II inhibitor This ... mediators, including Brca1 and Claspin, have been shown to possess affinities to DNA (Paull et al 2001; Sar et al 2004) Although the DNA-binding activities of these mediators might contribute to ... DNA lesions In addition to the phosphorylation of histone H2AX, other histone modifications are also detected in the vicinity of DSBs For example, histone H4 is shown to be acetylated at DSBs...
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A study on english and vietnamese responses to compliments

A study on english and vietnamese responses to compliments

Ngày tải lên : 26/11/2013, 13:19
... divided into two categories, Person -to- Person Compliment Responses (PP-CRs, hereafter) and Compliment Responses to a third person (3rd P-CRs, hereafter) 4.2.1 Person -to- Person Compliment Responses ... With the purpose to make an investigation into syntactic and pragmatic features of verbal responses to compliments in their contrast in English and Vietnamese, this study aims to describe and ... an investigation into this field should be carried out to contribute to a better process of teaching and learning English Carrying out a contrastive study on verbal responses to compliments in...
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Tài liệu Module 12: Designing Responses to Security Incidents doc

Tài liệu Module 12: Designing Responses to Security Incidents doc

Ngày tải lên : 18/01/2014, 05:20
... use an audit policy to audit specifically for security threats To design an audit policy, use a framework to help you determine what to audit, how to audit, and when and how to review the data ... you need to track later Globally auditing all events will cause event logs to grow to an unmanageable size An audit statement helps you define what events to monitor, the level of detail to audit, ... then type your answer to Ashley’s questions Click Send to save your answers to a folder on your desktop Discuss your answers as a class 28 Module 12: Designing Responses to Security Incidents...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species pot

Blackwell Publishing Ltd Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species pot

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 17:20
... apparently different responses to IR forcing, and employed an integrative process model to investigate one potential mechanism for altered reproduction in relation to www.newphytologist.org © The ... assimilation Photosynthetically active radiation temperature Leaf -to- air vapor pressure deficit © The Authors (2006) Journal compilation © New Phytologist (2006) www.newphytologist.org New Phytologist ... Journal compilation © New Phytologist (2006) www.newphytologist.org New Phytologist (2007) 173: 121–134 127 128 Research Fig The average diurnal course of photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (gs),...
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ORGANIC MEAT: MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMER WILLINGNESS TO PAY pptx

ORGANIC MEAT: MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMER WILLINGNESS TO PAY pptx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 21:20
... ways to signal the quality to the consumer Thus, meat product differentiation needs a constant and reliable signalling of quality through appropriate information given to consumers in order to ... organic meat into the general retail sector is that purchasers of organic food tend to be in the higher income segment (F.A.O., 2002) Consequently, supermarkets seek to attract such customers by providing ... should be presented in a simple form in order to enable them to make informed choices In fact, it has been observed that consumers are willing to access to more information about organic food (Brennan...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Staying on message: design principles for controlling nonspecific responses to siRNA pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Staying on message: design principles for controlling nonspecific responses to siRNA pdf

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 01:23
... central roles in nonspecific responses to siRNA in vivo TLR7 and TLR8 are thought to mediate the majority of both inflammatory cytokine and interferon-dominated immune responses to siRNA in vivo [25,52], ... stimulation observed may be due to enhanced trafficking of siRNA to endosomes and the cytoplasm, and therefore to enhanced interaction with endosomal and cytoplasmic receptors It is also possible that ... However, because siRNA must be released into the cytoplasm in order for them to be incorporated into RISC, any siRNA motifs that activate cytoplasmic receptors would still induce immune activation...
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Health policy responses to the f inancial crisis in Europe doc

Health policy responses to the f inancial crisis in Europe doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 19:20
... to the goal of efficiency The purpose of trying to increase efficiency in the health sector is to maximize outcomes for a given level of public resources devoted to health care Governments’ responses ... nurses compared to doctors (Laurant et al., 2005) 4.4.3 Payments to providers In response to the crisis several countries have reduced the tariffs (i.e prices) paid to providers (Estonia, Ireland, ... countries seem to have used the crisis to try to increase efficiency, particularly in the hospital and pharmaceutical sectors, although little has been done to enhance value through policies to improve...
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Policy Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Africa pot

Policy Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Africa pot

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 09:20
... have some scope within the WTO to apply safeguard mechanisms to provide, amongst others, credit to domestic firms and to engage in government procurement programmes to stimulate the domestic economy ... not only up to African countries themselves to avoid pitfalls in policy responses to the crisis Advanced countries also have the responsibility to fix the global financial system and to equitably ... measures, to be undertaken by both the international community and African countries, include: ■ Monitoring the impact of the crisis; ■ Restoring confidence in, and continuing to monitor and regulate...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Cotton GhMPK2 is involved in multiple signaling pathways and mediates defense responses to pathogen infection and oxidative stress doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Cotton GhMPK2 is involved in multiple signaling pathways and mediates defense responses to pathogen infection and oxidative stress doc

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 23:20
... viologen (MV) The ectopic expression of GhMPK2 in transgenic tobacco plants led to enhanced resistance to fungi and viruses This resistance was most probably attributable to elevated constitutive ... transgenic and wild-type tobacco plants Transcriptional levels of these genes in transgenic tobacco are indicated relative to the level of wild-type tobacco, taken as 1, referring to the transcripts ... transgenic tobacco plants (A) Symptoms of the leaves, stems and roots of the tobacco plants inoculated with F oxysporum at 10 days postinoculation (B) Symptoms of the leaves and stems of tobacco...
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The Temporal Pattern of Mortality Responses to Air Pollution: A Multicity Assessment of Mortality Displacement potx

The Temporal Pattern of Mortality Responses to Air Pollution: A Multicity Assessment of Mortality Displacement potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 20:20
... which can distort the association with air pollution Therefore, we chose a smoothing parameter for time to reduce the residuals to white noise Sometimes it was necessary to introduce autoregressive ... death and day before death † Exposure up to 40 days before death, subject to constraints to keep the estimated effect from changing too much from one lag to the next The constraint was a cubic ... Further details, including how to estimate the ␩k in a Poisson model, have been published previously.34 Too much constraint risks bias, producing a distorted shape, whereas too little constraint produces...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Plant oxylipins: Plant responses to 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid are governed by its specific structural and functional properties ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Plant oxylipins: Plant responses to 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid are governed by its specific structural and functional properties ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 02:20
... appropriate tool with which to regulate transcription factor activity, as shown for nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-jB), c-Jun or peroxisome proliferator-activated ... work on phytoprostanes allow for hypotheses in which bioactive plant RES act as Michael acceptors, thereby adding not only to GSH, but also directly to enzymes and transcription factors OPDA: ... seemingly similar to the regulation by OPDA and pathogens [63] Moreover, a major part of these responses is shown to be dependent on TGACG motif-binding factor (TGA) transcription factors Thus, a...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Transcriptional responses to glucose at different glycolytic rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Transcriptional responses to glucose at different glycolytic rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 18:20
... source [34] (Fig 1) In order to follow glucoseinduced responses, the yeast strains were grown in the presence of 1% (v/v) ethanol to a D610 of 1, pulsed with glucose to a final concentration of ... continued to catabolize glucose (Fig 1) The HXTnull strain continued consuming ethanol, leaving glucose unconsumed Short-term response to glucose addition Using QPCR we monitored the response to glucose ... HXT-null strain To monitor the long-term glucose response, the four strains were grown in the presence of a high (5%) concentration of glucose to a D610 of 1.0 A sample was shifted to a low (0.05%)...
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Programmatic Responses to Refugees’ Reproductive Health Needs potx

Programmatic Responses to Refugees’ Reproductive Health Needs potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 12:20
... reported that due to the lack of sanitary napkins, they have resorted to sitting over an open flame in order to slow or temporarily cease their 182 menstrual bleeding to enable them to work for short ... system parallel to local facilities Local referral hospitals should be identified and supported to enable them to respond to comprehensive emergency obstetric needs of refugee women and to reinforce ... a plan to upgrade camp health facilities to provide basic maternity care Within each area, one clinic was selected and equipped to remain open 24 hours a day to handle emergencies and to transport...
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HPA axis responses to laboratory psychosocial stress in healthy elderly adults, younger adults, and children: impact of age and gender ppt

HPA axis responses to laboratory psychosocial stress in healthy elderly adults, younger adults, and children: impact of age and gender ppt

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 14:20
... different laboratories by Dickerson and Kemeny (2002) They concluded that the TSST-protocol is one of the best standardized tools to evoke HPA axis stress responses in a laboratory setting Furthermore, ... responses in elderly men compared to elderly women This effect does not appear to be attributable to subjective responses to the TSST The observed ACTH and total plasma cortisol response patterns ... used to analyze endocrine responses to the stressor with the independent factors age groups (older adults vs younger adults vs children) and gender (male vs female) and the repeated factor sampling...
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The impact of and responses to HIV/AIDS in the private security and legal services industry in South Africa potx

The impact of and responses to HIV/AIDS in the private security and legal services industry in South Africa potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 18:20
... revision, to move from a managerial top-down approach to an inclusive approach Policies have to be of a length and in style of language that allows for them to be easily distributed, read and understood ... developing responses to cases of discrimination The implementation of the policy must be designated as the responsibility of a specific person, and resources need to be committed to the policy Monitoring ... security sector The following recommendations are made: In order to remain competitive in the long run, the private security sector needs to take a long-term developmental attitude and approach to maintaining...
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