Gender diversity in the board has recently become most intensely deliberated and scrutinized corporate governance aspect, especially its linkage with various economic outcomes following numerous scandals as a results of weak mechanisms. This empirical work examined association between gender (BGD), efficiency risk-taking behavior (RTB) insurers Kenya over 8 year’s period from 2013 to 2020 using...

The purpose of this article was to assess the overall health behaviors of African American emerging adults who live in a Midwestern city. Two hundred participants, ages 18-25, completed a 129-item survey. Results indicate that African American emerging adults are engaged in relatively healthy behaviors (i.e., physical activity, low substance use). The results also showed that within the emergin...

background: intra-articular t- type or y- type fractures of the distal end of the humerus are relatively rare, and consequently few surgeons will be able to attain extensive experience with the surgical treatment of these injuries. the current emphasis is on operative intervention with rigid internal fixation and early mobilization. methods: in this prospective and retrospective study, we revie...

Regulation of insurers has focused primarily on insurer solidity.1 The concern for solidity centers on safe capitalization requirements for insurers, premium rate adequacy, and investment controls. Although current regulatory concerns frequently address issues of pricing equity and new approaches to risk classification, solidity remains the principal consideration. Capital adequacy, a key solid...

I use data on the hospital networks offered by managed care health insurers to estimate the expected division of profits between insurers and providers. I include a simple profit-maximization framework and an additional effect: hospitals that can secure demand without contracting with all insurers (e.g., those most attractive to consumers and those that are capacity constrained) may demand high...

This article analyses a flocking algorithm that was developed specifically for small and simple swarm robots. It is similar to traditional flocking algorithms for swarm robots, however it does not need communication nor global information. Its only requirements are at least 4 circumferential distance sensors which can have very limited range. This is possible because our algorithm generates eme...

The insurance sector, notably the monoline insurers and A.I.G., played a crucial role during the boom of 2004-2007 by guaranteeing a variety of credit risks using both insurance policies and significantly substitutable credit derivatives. These guarantees yielded huge losses and liquidity requirements for these insurers when the guaranteed assets declined in value. The large losses recorded by ...