... effects ofthefinancialcrisis on the insurance industry This report addresses (1) what is known about how thefinancialcrisisof 2007- 2009 affected the insurance industry and policyholders, (2) the ... effects ofthefinancialcrisis on the insurance industry This report addresses (1) what is known about how thefinancialcrisisof 2007- 2009 affected the insurance industry and policyholders, (2) the ... insurers The losses threatened to bankrupt the company, and AIG was one ofthe largest recipients of assistance by the Federal Reserve Bankof New York andthe federal government under the Troubled...
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... background and motivation The 2007- 2008 financialcrisis is commonly viewed as the worst financialcrisis since the Great Depression ofthe 1930s.7 Thecrisis not only resulted in the collapse of well-known ... broader view ofthe role of corporate governance in thefinancialcrisis than other concurrent papers by investigating various aspects ofthecrisis including risk-taking prior to thecrisisand capital ... in loans and guarantees Motivated by the significance ofthe 2007- 2008 financial crisis, an emerging body of literature has attempted to identify and examine the global roots ofthecrisis This...
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... mechanisms, the role of public and private law in the protection of health and, finally, the legal framework ofthe provision of health services Several weaknesses in law as a tool for the protection of ... direction of public health law Understandings of health have changed, and are continuing to change These changes are challenging the prioritising ofthe role of medicine in the xli Lawandthe Public ... fluid, and increasingly educated The individual is no longer the grateful recipient ofthe commodity of health fromthe State, but rather an agent of health, and responsibility for the attainment of...
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... divides the set of samples such that all the points with the same class are on the same sides ofthe hyperplane Let wo and bo denote the optimum values ofthe weight vector and bias, respectively The ... Hence, theoptimal separating hyperplane is the one that satisfies (4) and minimizes the cost function, L Φ(w) = wT w + C ξi i=1 (6) The parameter C controls the tradeoff between the complexity ofthe ... shows the filtering behavior of a window width × WOS filter, based on the architecture of threshold decomposition The data in the upper left are input signals andthe data in the upper right are the...
... is the observation grammian ofthe pair (A, C), which is the unique solution ofthe Lyapunov equation where Id−1 Ad = ∈ Rd×d , 0 2 (23) The proof ofthe theorem readily follows fromthe way the ... to theoptimal solution rather than a suboptimal solution Problem formulation As stated before, the leakage from one band to another is known as the crosstalk which is the effect of other band ... (k) and Sc,i (z) is due to the inputs of other bands and is termed as crosstalk in the ith band In general, the crosstalk in the ith band is composed of (M − 1) leakages from (M − 1) input s j ,...
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... Each of these has proponents and critics Instead of these usual suspects, Tong offers the ethic of care as the guiding principle in times of infectious crisis Michael J Selgelid, Paul M Kelly, and ... evaluate the efficacy and costs, the burdens and benefits, ofthe panoply of medical technologies – an effort essential to just and fair allocation – encounters the straitened confines ofthe rule of ... contracted the H5N1 strain ofthe avian flu virus The UK government has ordered enough ofthe drug to treat 25% ofthe population in the event of an avian flu pandemic In this case there are three...
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