the basis risk of catastrophicloss index securities

Báo cáo khoa học: "Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the ‘risk of unacceptable badness’"

Báo cáo khoa học: "Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the ‘risk of unacceptable badness’"

... revitalize the patient. Perhaps the most effective way of dealing with strong familial incentives to tread the path of least resistance in end -of- life care is twofold. First, in end -of- life issue ... coworkers [15] termed, the large risk of unacceptable badness’, rather than a vanishingly small potential for benefit. There are far worse things than death, and many of them occur in ICUs when ... not technically futile. Under the current rules, the only test of futility is that embodied by the question, ‘Will this treatment result in sustained life?’ If the answer is ‘yes’, then virtually any treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

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Báo cáo y học: "Grb2-associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy"

Báo cáo y học: "Grb2-associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy"

... that G/G of the PTPN11 gene encoding SHP-2 increased the risk of gastric atrophy among the seropositive subjects [18]. The present study examined the association of a polymorphism of Gab1 ... diagnosis of cancer. In summary, the Gab1 A/A was associated with the low risk of H. pylori infection while the G/A and A/A genotypes together may increase the risk for gastric atrophy. The biological ... the low risk of the infection independent on severe atrophy. Although the Gab1 polymorphism prevented H. pylori infection, it was associated with the risk of atrophy identified as the precursor...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37

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 Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

... better understand the relationship between the intake of meat and the risk of type 2 DM we prospectively investigated the association between meat consumption and the incidence of type 2 DM in ... study there was no information on associations of different types of meat and the risk of diabetes. Poultry consumption was associated with a moderate decrease in risk of type 2 DM in the NHS ... part of a dietary pattern associated with a higher risk of type 2 DM [17]. To our knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49

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Tài liệu The Black Book Of Forbidden Investments Secret Securities Blackbookpremium (pdf) pptx

Tài liệu The Black Book Of Forbidden Investments Secret Securities Blackbookpremium (pdf) pptx

... calls on the euro in May of 2002, under the same conditions as the Swiss franc trade. The price of the option – US$1,250 – was again your maximum risk. By the end of February 2003, the euro ... through the end of October 2003 versus the –1.14% that the S&P 500 Index shows. Another natural resources index, the Rogers Commodity Index, soared 80% over a period of five years in which the ... Rogers (the founder of this index) is one of the world’s most perceptive global investors. He created the Rogers Raw Materials Index in 1998; since then, the fund tied to the index has blasted...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 03:20

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Tài liệu THE CHICAGO WOMEN’S HEALTH RISK STUDY RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN INTIMATE VIOLENCE A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT doc

Tài liệu THE CHICAGO WOMEN’S HEALTH RISK STUDY RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN INTIMATE VIOLENCE A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT doc

... dashed arrows. The most important comparison was between the lethal and the non-lethal samples of abused women. The goal of the high -risk profile analysis was to determine the configuration of events, ... well as to the availability of services. Therefore, an assessment of the use and effect of interventions must begin by assessing the woman’s avenues of support the resources she calls on, the situations ... very interested in the women themselves, how they coped over the two-year period of the study, what resources they brought to bear, and whether they managed to survive. History of Violence That...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Basis of recognition between the NarJ chaperone and the N-terminus of the NarG subunit from Escherichia coli nitrate reductase pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Basis of recognition between the NarJ chaperone and the N-terminus of the NarG subunit from Escherichia coli nitrate reductase pdf

... hypothesize that the proton- ated state of the chaperone initiates this cycle, whereas the deprotonated state occurs upon completion of the maturation process of the partner. The nature of the signal ... reduces the pep- tide binding affinity by 100-fold and the lifespan of the complex by 10-fold, as judged by k off . The physiological chaperone cycle probably consists of the rapid binding of the ... was the discovery of the pH-dependent modulation of the peptide binding affinity by changing the lifespan of the chaperone– peptide complex. Indeed, deprotonation of a yet unidentified residue of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20

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Tài liệu SWIMMING IN SEWAGE: The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk ppt

Tài liệu SWIMMING IN SEWAGE: The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk ppt

... reefs off the continental United States. 244,245 The Keys comprise 88 percent of coral reefs in Florida, excluding the reefs of the Middle Grounds situated 100 miles off the coast in the Gulf of ... Indiana, covers the bulk of Marion County in the central part of the state, pop- ulation 860,454. The city is situated in the upper part of the White River watershed—a system of rivers draining ... communities, as is the case for most of the interior portions of the United States, sewage overflows can put downstream users at risk. The Missouri River, for instance, is the source of drinking water...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

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Tài liệu China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy pptx

Tài liệu China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy pptx

... 19 The report is prepared jointly by the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 20 Department of the Treasury, ... end of year values while data on holdings of U.S. securities are through the end of June. Table 2 lists the top three holders of U.S. securities as of June 2010, broken down by the type of securities ... survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities by country and reports data for the previous year as of the end of June. 19 The latest Treasury survey of portfolio holdings of U.S. securities...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

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Tài liệu The Basis of Early Christian Theism ppt

Tài liệu The Basis of Early Christian Theism ppt

... questions within the scope of the Christian Faith. The function of the age of the Councils was the formulation and definition of Christian dogma upon the admitted basis of the revelation of Jesus Christ. This ... Him." And each of the Greek schools, they would say, by resting their case on some one of the various arguments, and emphasizing some one of the attributes of the Deity at the expense of the others, ... not of certainty, but of mere opinion. And this estimate of the function of philosophy with respect to theological truth, which the Fathers worked out on the basis of the concrete example of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

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Tài liệu Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk pptx

Tài liệu Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk pptx

... and risk profile. 24. The fundamental premise of sound risk management is that the board of directors and bank management understand the nature and complexity of the risks inherent in the ... means of understanding the nature and complexity of operational risk is to have the components of the Framework fully integrated into the overall risk management processes of the bank. The Framework ... into the risk management processes across all levels of the organisation 13 See also: the Committee’s Report on the range of methodologies for the risk and performance alignment of remuneration,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Protein–protein interactions and selection: generation of molecule-binding proteins on the basis of tertiary structural information potx

Báo cáo khoa học: Protein–protein interactions and selection: generation of molecule-binding proteins on the basis of tertiary structural information potx

... from a different species [23–25]. The success of the series of studies shows that the stable framework structure of Fv enables the transfer of function by means of CDR replacement. Barbas et al. ... of the CDR 3 loop of antilysozyme VHH functionalized NCS without denaturation, although the thermal stability was decreased and the affinity for lysozyme was weaker than in the original VHH. The ... demonstrating the utility of the grafting of functional peptides with randomized edge sequences for optimizing the orientation of the grafted peptide on a scaffold protein. In addition, when the combina- tion...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Investigations into the ability of an oblique a-helical template to provide the basis for design of an antimicrobial anionic amphiphilic peptide pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Investigations into the ability of an oblique a-helical template to provide the basis for design of an antimicrobial anionic amphiphilic peptide pot

... contribute to the susceptibility of E. coli model membranes to the action of AP1. An important determinant of the susceptibility of membranes to a-AMPs is the packing characteristics of the individual ... stable in the presence of AP1, further supporting the sugges- tion that this instability may contribute to the susceptibility of E. coli to the antimicrobial action of the peptide. Discussion The biological ... dynamic behaviour of monolayers. The compressibility modulus, C À1 s , provides a measure of the compressional elasticity of a monolayer and can be used to characterize the phase state of the isotherm, thereby...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

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Investor Alert: Self-Directed IRAs and the Risk of Fraud pptx

Investor Alert: Self-Directed IRAs and the Risk of Fraud pptx

... these accounts likely have not investigated the securities or the background of the promoter. There are a number of ways that fraud promoters may use these weaknesses and misperceptions to perpetrate ... IRA custodians often list the value of the investment as the original purchase price, the original purchase price plus returns reported by the promoter, or a price provided by the promoter. ... other IRA providers, investments in these kinds of assets may have unique risks that inves- tors should consider. Those risks can include a lack of disclosure and liquidity as well as the risk...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Clustering Hungarian Verbs on the Basis of Complementation Patterns" pot

Báo cáo khoa học: "Clustering Hungarian Verbs on the Basis of Complementation Patterns" pot

... verbs on the basis of their syntactic proper- ties with the further goal of identifying the seman- tic classes relevant for the description of Hungarian verbs’ alternation behavior. The theoretical ... in rows. The first step of the evaluation process is to fill in the cells with the semantic roles the given suffix can code in the context of the verb. We consider the clusters correct, if the corresponding ... source in the environment of movement verbs. Both cases having the same semantic role, the decision between them is deter- mined by the semantics of the corresponding NP. These cases code an other...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 03:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Shallow parsing on the basis of words only: A case study" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Shallow parsing on the basis of words only: A case study" pptx

... and Marcus, 1995). For the function part of the code, the value is either the function for the head of a chunk, or the dummy value NOFUNC for all non-heads. For creating the POS-based task, all ... is the number of features, is a weight for feature , and estimates the difference between the two instances’ values at the th feature. The classes of the nearest neighbors then determine the ... all features (the columns) and the function- chunk code for the focus word. The features de- scribe the focus word and its local context. For the chunk part of the code, we adopt the “Inside”, “Outside”,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

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