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This paper studies organizational form choice in the life insurance industry between 1900 and 1949. It questions the prevailing wisdom about the decline of the mutual—that consumer protection regulation enabled the stock ...rm to rise by engendering consumer con...dence. Instead, the evidence suggests that 1) organizational form choices were made with an eye to avoiding regulation when possible...

Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is more reliable than surgical valve replacement for high-risk or inoperable aortic stenosis patients. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of different femoral access methods on the development of vascular complications and contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) after transfemoral (TF)-TAVI. Patients and Methods: In total, ...

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This paper studies stock and mutual life insurance company formations in the first half of the 20th century. A common belief is that the growth of state consumer protection regulation rendered the mutual form irrelevant, but the paper finds little evidence connecting such regulation with declines in the form’s popularity. The exception is the initial capital requirement. Mutuals were formed alm...

Farzan Rashidi is with the Engineering Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. Mehran Rashidi is with the Hormozgan Regional Electric Co., Bandar-Abbas, Iran. Hamid Monavar is with the Hormozgan Regional Electric Co., Bandar-Abbas, Iran. Abstract—This paper proposes the design of power system stabilizer based on fuzzy logic and the sliding mode controller. The control objective is to enhance the stab...

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