Does modern medicine increase life-expectancy: Quest for the Moon Rabbit?

A quest for the moon

There has been a renewed interest in exploration of the moon in the past few years and a number of space missions are planned by various countries during this decade. The Indian Space Research Organization has also been discussing the possibility of an orbiter mission to the moon for remote sensing and has debated the scientific goals for such a mission in various fora such as the annual meetin...

Does Modern Management Increase Inequality?

This paper examines whether modern management, characterized by performance and target based practices, explains the recent rise in wage inequality. I hypothesize that modern management’s shift to performance pay, management-skill complementarity, and managementtechnology complementarity contribute to the increase in wage inequality within establishments. The period after the Asian Financial Cr...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Does Physical Activity Increase Life Expectancy? A Review of the Literature

Physical activity reduces many major mortality risk factors including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer. All-cause mortality is decreased by about 30% to 35% in physically active as compared to inactive subjects. The purpose of this paper was to synthesize the literature on life expectancy in relation to physical activity. ...

Fertility, mortality, and life expectancy in pre-modern Japan.