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Fundamentals of Current Pension Funding and Accounting For Private Sector Pension Plans: An Analysis by the Pension Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries pptx

Fundamentals of Current Pension Funding and Accounting For Private Sector Pension Plans: An Analysis by the Pension Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries pptx

... period of plan participants only to the extent their total exceeds a corridor. The corridor may be up to 10 percent of the greater of the plan’s PBO or MRVA. The total of the above pieces of the ... purpose of the Academy is to act as the public information organization for the profession. The Academy is non-partisan and assists the public policy process through the presentation of clear and ... equal to the last date of the fiscal year. 6 As of that date, the company sets assumptions and gathers the participant data used to measure its obligations and determines the fair value of assets...

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Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

... irrespective of the amount of the loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount of the repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity of the borrower and ... b) There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount of the loan and the tenure of the loan. It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs. 15,000, the tenure of the loan ... lend to the same borrower. d) there must be a minimum period of moratorium between the grant of the loan and the commencement of its repayment. e) recovery of loan given in violation of the regulations...

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The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 ppt

The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 ppt

... built its winter nest in the guns of the battery, to the swift dash of the chipmunk over the brown glacis of the fortifications. Standing there on the loftiest point of the loftiest citadel in America, ... beyond the beautiful round of the affections. Noble woman whose heroism is purely of the heart, not of the head. There are many species of martyrdom, but that of mere love is the grandest in the concentration ... Good-bye." The soldier touched his cap, and the officer trotted through the archway. A moment later he dismounted at the portal of the Chateau, threw the bridle into the hands of a groom in waiting, and...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific docx

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific docx

... supervision of the affairs of the Society. ARTICLE V. The Secretaries shall keep and have the custody of the records; they shall have the custody of all other prope rty of the Society, excepting the money ... of the Society, and properly index them; they shall conduct the cor- respondence of the So cie ty; they shall preserve and index the originals of all communications addressed to the Society; and ... That the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific be regularly sent to the following Observatories, etc., and that the Secretaries of the Society be instructed to notify them of...

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báo cáo sinh học:" The current shortage and future surplus of doctors: a projection of the future growth of the Japanese medical workforce" pdf

báo cáo sinh học:" The current shortage and future surplus of doctors: a projection of the future growth of the Japanese medical workforce" pdf

... specialty, address, and place of work. These reports are tallied and published as theSurveyofPhysicians[13].Thenumberofmedical doctors in our baseline year of 2008, stratified by sex and age, was established ... predicting long-term trends in the supply of and demand for medi- cal practitioners in the debate over the medical student quota. Our hypothesis is that the proposed additional increase in the medical student ... high: the number of consultations per capita is higher in Japan than in any other OECD country [9], and the rates of hospital utilization are high as well. These trends have made the shortage of...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx

... years and 254 parent s of chil- dren aged 2-18 years. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample. No parent in the patient group ... boys (51.05%) and 215 girls (40.95%) and 42 (8%) of unknown gender. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was ... Depart- ment of Pediatrics. Subjects of the comparison group were chosen by random selection from the general Hun- garian population through the Population Register Office of the Ministry of the Interior,...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement" potx

báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement" potx

... domains of the D- 39S (diabetes control and energy and mobility) and RAND-12 PHC than psychological domains of the D-39S (social burden, anxiety and worry, and sexual functioning) and RAND-12 MHC. The DQOL ... also hypothesized that, compared to the RAND-12 the DQOL and the D-39S would discriminate better between the known groups of retinopathy, neuropathy, and diabetic foot complications rather than the ... stand- ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia- bility of the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation. SEM was estimated by a standard deviation of the...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales in school children and adolescents using the rasch model" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales in school children and adolescents using the rasch model" ppt

... to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scores on the social functioning scale of both healthy children and ... from the per- centage of missing values for each item and distribution of item responses [20,21]. Range of measurement was fur- ther tested based on the percentage of scores at the extremes of the ... respondents in the way it was intended by the developer of the scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality of the measures and utility of the rating scale in facilitating interpretable...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module" pot

báo cáo hóa học:" Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module" pot

... related quality of life (HRQOL) of the patients and their families. Diabetes imposes restrictions on physical, emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents. One of the international ... children with other chronic diseases. Measuring quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents with diabetes and assessment of reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL TM ... EF researched the data, ZB wrote the manuscript and analyzed the data, KSh researched the data and edited the manuscript, ZK researched the data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript....

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báo cáo hóa học:" Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM 4.0 (PedsQLTM) Generic Core Scales in children" ppt

báo cáo hóa học:" Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM 4.0 (PedsQLTM) Generic Core Scales in children" ppt

... explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the mentioned items. Hence, the loading of the first ... According to the manual of the instrument, if more than 50% of the items 2 Abstract Background: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the Pediatric ... self-reports and the parent proxy-reports. In the parent-report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 6 and the second factor consisted of items 7 and 8; however in the children report, the first...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Salt-induced formation of the A-state of ferricytochrome c – effect of the anion charge on protein structure docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Salt-induced formation of the A-state of ferricytochrome c – effect of the anion charge on protein structure docx

... ligand X (the other likely candidates, i.e. the lysines, are fully proto- nated at pH 2.2) [18]. The heterogeneous character of the A-state promp- ted us to investigate the effect of sulfate and ... Near-UV (A) and Soret (B) CD spectra of acid-denatured cytochrome c in the presence of 0.02 M sulfate () and 0.02 M sel- enate ( ặặ ặặ). The spectra of the native (-ặ-ặ-) and of the dena- tured ... pro- nounced in the case of the K13N mutant), and the absorbances at 497 and 528 nm, in the visible region, are inverted, whereas the CT band is weakened and red- shifted. This indicates that the mutations...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL™) cancer module scale" pdf

báo cáo hóa học: " Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL™) cancer module scale" pdf

... Hematology /the Education Program of the American Society of Hematology American Soci- ety of Hematology 2004:118-145. 3. Bowden A, Fox-Rushby JA: A systematic and critical review of the process of translation ... hospitals of the city. A total of 190 families of Bra- zilian children between the ages of 2 and 18 years, of both genders, with malignant neoplasm in various phases of treatment or control of the ... toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the individual is subjected [9,15]. The analysis of the correlation between the scores the chil- dren/adolescents obtained and those obtained by the guardians...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North Italy" docx

báo cáo hóa học:" Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North Italy" docx

... well as the proportions of respondents reporting impairment in the 5 EQ domains. The magni- tude and significance of the ORs for the EQ-5D domains, as well as the sign and significance of the regression ... applicability. The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicabil- ity, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Ital- ian version of the EQ-5D in a random sample of the citizens of Bologna ... subjects, and people not able to reason or understand and make deci- sions on their own. The study was performed in 2002 and the sample was expected to be representative of the resi- dents of the geographical...

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