In a single period framework, we develop a supply portfolio risk assessment tool for raw material procurement in the presence of supply risk (owing to contract breaches), demand risk and the spot price risk. Contract breaches are operational risk events that are classified under the “Clients, Products and Business Practices” category of the Basel II framework. We allow for the negative financia...

In 1977, an estimated $28.2 billion in wage and salary payments was lost by civilian workers in the United States because of short-term sickness. Of this amount, $10.3 billion was made up under benefit plans for workers, either through sick-leave payments or insurance benefits. These figures represent increases of 7 percent above the corresponding totals for the previous year. In contrast, bene...

The low incidence of hepatitis in the staff of clinical laboratories in Britain was sustained in 1977-78. The attack rate was 29 per 100,000 person years, calculated from eight cases (six of hepatitis B).

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Heart failure is now the third leading cause of cardiovascular death in developed countries and is also an important cause of morbidity and hospitalization that now represents the main cause of admissions among the elderly. In this study we present heart failure mortality trends in Spain developing over the last 20 years. METHODS Data on deaths due to heart failure...

The Nation spent $163 billion for health care in fiscal year 1977 or $737 per person, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This figure was 12 percent higher than spending for such purposes in the previous 12 months and represented an 8.8-percent share of the GNP. Public spending, which financed 42 percent of all health care in 1977, increased 11...

Measurements of fallout radioactivity in Greenland in 1977 are reported. Strontium-90 (and Cesium-137 in most cases) was determined in samples of precipitation, sea water, vegetation, animals, and drinking water. Estimates are given of the mean contents of 90Sr and 137Cs in the human diet in Greenland in 1977.

A value R is obtained by the ratio of the summed, coincident pulses of both photomultipliers to the coincident pulses of one photomultiplier in the same selected range of the external standard puls height spectrum. This value R together with the external standard channel ratio (ESCR) show the extent of chemical and/or colour quenching in a field described by a set of calibration samples with in...

Marvin, Ursula B., and Brian Mason, editors. Catalog of Antarctic Meteorites, 1977-1978. Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences, number 23, 50 pages, 39 figures, 2 tables, 1980.—During two expeditions to Antarctica (1976-77 and 1977-78), more than 300 pieces of meteorites were collected from a small area adjacent to the Allan Hills (77°S, 159°E) in Victoria Land. The 1977-78 meteorites...

Based on my revision of the types of the Neotropical genera Nyctelia Latreille, 1825 (Nycteliini), Praocis Eschscholtz, 1829 (Praocini), Scotobius Germar, 1824, and Emmallodera Blanchard, 1842 (Scotobiini), nine NEW SYNONYMIES are proposed and illustrated: Nyctelia roigi Marcuzzi, 1977 with N. quadricarinata Fairmaire, 1905; Praocis freyi Marcuzzi, 1977 with P. uretai Kulzer, 1958; Praocis larr...

Increasing popularity of online auctions and the associated frauds have drawn the attention of many researchers. It is found [hal most of the auction sites prefer English auction to other auction mechanisms. The ease of adopting multiple fake idenlities over the Internet nourishes shill bidding by fraudulent sellers in English auction. In this paper we derive an equilibrium bidding strategy (0 ...