... risk modeling Using the information gathered from risk modeling, the business can then determine the actual prices for each policy Sales: The business is now in a position to begin selling its insurance ... premium + investment income – incurred loss – underwriting expenses This profit formula depicts the revenue and cost flow ofthe insurance business model Money comes from earned premiums and investment ... anytime Growing numbers of insurers, mainly inthe car insurance industry, offer user mobile claim management as an extra service In addition to the increase customer service, efficiency gained...
... to the analysis of competition inthe markets for small business loans and 39 These are the arguments used by the DOJ/FTC in their merger guidelines in their hypothetical monopolist test for market ... as the development of offshore financial centers and off-balance-sheet methods of financing); • the diminishing effectiveness of traditional controls due to financial innovation (including the ... inthe endorsement ofthe adequacy ofthe system The proposals ofthe Committee, expected to be progressively implemented from the end of 2006, also introduce two additional pillars for banking...
... compressed CO2 (the principal component ofthe martian atmosphere), thereby reducing the high demand of consumable resources needed to maintain human-accommodating atmosphere and pressure in ... president ofthe National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine...
... which the effects of chemotherapy may be judged The aim of this study was to examine whether the 21st century surgeon still has a role to play inthe diagnosis and management of lymphoma Patients ... importance inthe future is theroleof endoscopy and laparoscopy in obtaining biopsy material The advent of endoscopic ultrasound-guided FNAC allows targeting of mediastinal and intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy, ... disease mass and offer a more precise target for radiotherapy The advent of computed tomography brought about the demise of staging laparotomies and splenectomy is now limited to symptomatic splenomegaly...
... Recombinant FVIIa inthe management of uncontrolled hemorrhage Transfusion 2003, 43:1711-1716 Geeraedts LM Jr, Kamphuisen PW, Kaasjager HA, Verwiel JM, van Vugt AB, Frolke JP: Theroleof recombinant ... benefit Ongoing bleeding and reasonable expectation of benefit are mandatory even for compassionate off-label use of rFVIIa Competing interests SR is a member ofthe Niastase/NovoSeven International ... One more caveat comes from a multicenter survey of off-label use of rFVIIa in American academic hospitals [16], which reported that only 52% ofthe patients stopped bleeding within hours of rFVIIa...
... anesthetized using propofol (3 mg/kg) and orotracheally intubated inthe supine position Anesthesia was maintained with a continuous infusion of midazolam (0.3 mg/kg per hour), pancuronium (0.3 mg/kg ... Excessive matrix metalloproteinase-9 inthe plasma of community-acquired pneumonia Clin Chim Acta 2005, 352:209-215 Leidal KG, Munson KL, Johnson MC, Denning GM: Metalloproteases from Pseudomonas ... J, NicolasChanoin MH, Wolff M, Spencer RC, Hemmer M: The prevalence of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe Results ofthe European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care...
... autopsy The lack of a decrease inthe proportion of missed diagnoses during the past decades does not indicate a lack of progress in medical science since the types of missed diagnoses varied inthe ... This finding emphasises the difficulty of diagnosing unexpected or new pathogens in patients with existing infections Pulmonary embolism remains one ofthe major missed diagnoses throughout the past ... post-mortem findings in intensive care unit patients Virchows Arch 2007, 450:329-333 Page of 43 Mort TC, Yeston NS: The relationship of pre-mortem diagnoses and postmortem findings in a surgical intensive...
... already the visual inspection ofthe EXAFS data suggests that the number of sulfur atoms ligated to the zinc of MtaA increases upon formation ofthe MtaAcoenzyme M complex explainable by ligation of ... upon binding of coenzyme M one mol of H+ is released [7] The zinc EXAFS results reported here indeed now show an increase of one inthe number of sulfur ligands to zinc upon formation ofthe MtaAcoenzyme ... group of coenzyme M is activated by MtaA via the same mechanism as proposed for the other zinc enzymes [7] This suggestion is mostly based on the nding that MtaA contains per mol one mol of zinc...
... any ofthe pfLamA variants Thus, the decrease of mg value may be ascribed to an increase inthe compactness ofthe non-native state in 7.9 m GdmCl The effect ofthe double mutation on the thermodynamic ... (2004) Thermodynamics and kinetics of non-native interactions in protein folding: a single point mutant signicantly stabilizes the N-terminal domain of L9 by modulating non-native interactions inthe ... 7.9 M GdmCl and 40 mM CaCl2 (continuous), the spectra resulting from the addition of CaCl2 to the mutants after 20 h of incubation in 7.9 M GdmCl (dotted) and the spectra ofthe native mutants in...
... kind of conflation of art and morality is usefully unpacked in Martha Nussbaumʼs examination of Henry Jamesʼ analogy that the work ofthe moral imagination is in some manner like the work of ... like Emma, there must be many women inthe real world so deeply affected by their reading of Madame Bovary that they fall under Emmaʼs spell and are transformed into versions of her They may not ... (something many critics have called an allegorization of theme), the sheer difficulties of acting (including the act of writing) within a master narrative not of oneʼs making Struggling under the...
... strength of coenzyme B binding A more important function ofthe methyl group may involved improved orientation ofthe histidine inside the coenzyme B-binding site With the methylation, the histidine ... methanotrophic archaea ofthe ANME-1 cluster The numbering is that for the a-subunit of MCR I from Methanothermobacter marburgensis The amino acids, which in MCR from Methanothermobacter marburgensis are ... isoenzyme I from Methanothermobacter marburgensis, MCR from Methanosarcina barkeri, and MCR from Methanopyrus kandleri [7] In case ofthe enzyme from Methanothermobacter marburgensis and Methanosarcina...
... Lipomycin M: 10 (CT1) Lipomycin M Variant Bioproduct Biofertilizer: (CT2) Lipomycin M + Lipomycin M: 10 multi-functional biofertilizer Variant Bioproduct NPK: 10 (CT3) Lipomycin M + Lipomycin M: ... 2.5 18.44 17.59 18.97 19.75 Comparison ofthe percentages of water stored inthe soil samples in various forms indicates theroleofthe bioproduct Lipomycin Min holding water and ability to provide ... Effects of Lipomycin M on the amount of effective water in soil samples cultivated trees We carried out the experiment of manuring the bioproduct on the plot cultivated tea to get the most reliable...
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... transcription of tyrosinase, the rate-limiting enzyme involved in melanin production Tyrosinase is a glycoprotein found inthe melano‐ somal membrane The protein has an inner melanosomal domain, which ... determined by the amount of black melanin inthe epidermis This pigment, called eumelanin, is a potent blocker of UV radiation Thus the more eumelanin inthe skin, the less UV penetrates into the ... The book Recent Advances inthe Biology, Therapy and Management of Melanoma brings the latest, up-to-date information regarding the biological mechanisms underlying melano‐ ma epidemiology, molecular...
... directions cosines ofthe direction of gravity, (A, B, C) the moments of inertia, (x0 , y0 , z0 ) the position ofthe centre of mass ofthe system, Mthe mass ofthe top, and g the acceleration ... systems Mathematicians, operating in a more abstract world, may well ignore integrability However, the richness of this field is attracting the interest of a steadily increasing number of mathematicians, ... There is a class of nonlinear systems which are integrable, and the methods of solution for these systems draw on many fields of mathematics They are the subject ofthe lectures in this book There...