German Life Assurance Institute

Life Assurance in India

Mr. President and Gentlemen,*?My brother Dr. Arnold Caddy and I have been considering for some time whether some interesting information might not be extracted from our records of insurance cases examined by us. Our records were commenced by Dr. Coulter and my brother in the year 1892, and since Dr. Coulter's retirement in 1904, I have been assisting in their compilation also, thus for the last...

A Life Assurance Congress

A meeting of the International Life Assurance Congress is to be held at Brussels in September. The programme of proceedings includes many matters regarding which medical examiners are often greatly exercised, such as the eligibility of syphilitica, alcoholics,neurasthenics, albuminuries and glycosurics, persons with faulty hearts, persons with a tuberculous family history and so forth. While in...

Syphilis and Life Assurance

High Assurance Life and Death

Today’s airspace environment is congested and complex. The enroute environment is a tangled web of victor airways and jet routes connecting the multitude of radio navigation aids sprinkled all over the world and especially the US. The terminal area environments are highly congested with air traffic and requires precise aircraft control by pilots and ground controllers. This situation is even mo...

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences

A recent slew of ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium publications, specifically the article signed by all Consortium members, put forward the idea that more than 80% of the human genome is functional. This claim flies in the face of current estimates according to which the fraction of the genome that is evolutionarily conserved through purifying selection is less than10%. Thus, acc...