THE NATIONAL DEFENCES. (APPENDIX - SPITHEAD FORTS. REPLY TO ROYAL COMMISSIONERS' SECOND REPORT.)

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

This article deals with the role of insurance for damages from catastrophic events. Prior to the attack of September 11, 2001, insurers typically provided coverage for losses from terrorism and those from almost all other causes. These causes were thought by the industry to be of sufficiently low probability and were not a reason for making changes in premiums, underwriting, or reserves. In tim...

Reply to Second Revision

We address the problem of scheduling a single batching machine to minimize the maximum lateness with a constraint restricting the batch size. A solution for this NP-hard problem is defined by a selection of jobs for each batch and an ordering of those batches. As an alternative, we choose to represent a solution as a sequence of jobs. This approach is justified by our development of a dynamic p...

A Second Reply to Hunter

In O(3) symmetry electrodynamics the field tensor is governed by a nonAbelian Stokes Theorem, as in any non-Abelian gauge theory. The comments on the B component of this field tensor by Hunter in this Issue address B as if it were a U(1) symmetry field, governed by the ordinary Stokes Theorem, and are therefore sequentially erroneous, because there is a basic misunderstanding of the nature of O...

The Authors’ Reply

Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases

Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is a pro-drug of the active metabolite of mycophenolic acid. It is a suppressor of T and B cell proliferation and adhesion and inhibits inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase that eventually blocks the progression to DNA synthesis and proliferation [1]. It does not inhibit the production of interleukins as does ciclosporin and tacrolimus. MMF has routinely been used in ...