Future pension liabilities depend critically on the life expectancy of the members of a pension scheme. This remark applies equally to public and private schemes, and to defined-benefit and defined-contribution schemes. Some pension providers use the age-period-cohort model to forecast mortality. We examine some of the pitfalls in this approach. Our methods are based on the theory of constraine...

Methods A sample of 36 doctors (54 years, range 32-71; 12 males) working in health public setting (23) or private office (13) filled in an ad-hoc questionnaire. The items included: available time to visit patient and prescribe AIT; patient’s education to AIT or therapeutic alternatives; time dedicated to AIT description; barriers to AIT prescription; patients elective for AIT and contraindicati...

A 39-year-old Iranian female patient who was a known case of primary cervical dystonia since 10 years ago presented to a private office for Dysport injection. The patients experienced severe dysphagia after inferior alveolar nerve block which was preceded by cervical botolinum toxin injection. A possible synergistic effect of botolinum toxin and lidocaine to produce severe dysphagia is presente...

National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588 Japan; email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; email: [email protected] Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Private Bag, Weston Creek Pos...

The stage is being set for a communications revolution . . . there can come into homes and business places audio, video and [other] transmissions that will provide newspapers, mail service, banking and shopping facilities, data from libraries, . . . school curricula and other forms of information too numerous to specify. In short, every home and office will contain a communications center of a ...

The female flea Tunga penetrans is responsible for a cutaneous parasitosis known as Tungiasis. We report the clinical case of a 12 year-old Caucasian boy who sought treatment in a dermatological private office due to a painful lesion in the plantar area and whose dermoscopic examination, without skin contact, allowed the visualization of parasite's movement inside the skin. The diagnosis of tun...

Peter B. Meyer is a research economist, and Michael J. Harper is the chief of the Division of Productivity Research and Program Development, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Final multifactor productivity measures take more than a year to complete; using a simplified methodology and preliminary data, it is estimat...

1 Assosiated Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Research Member, Dental Resear...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. The amendment discussed in this letter (hereafter called “the reconciliation proposal”) is the one that was made public on March 18, 2010, as ...