The aim of this article is to determine the trends in absenteeism from 2000 to 2012 in Croatia and to examine if the observed trends could be related to the regulations implemented to keep the absenteeism on low level. In Croatia only family doctors keep the responsibility for sick leave and were always been targeted by many regulations to keep absenteeism on appropriate level. A study was obse...

Assuming absolute continuity of marginals, we give the distribution for sums of dependent random variables from some class of Archimedean copulas and the marginal distribution functions of all order statistics.We use conditional independence structure of random variables from this class of Archimedean copulas and Laplace transform. Additionally, we present an application of our results to VaR e...

A portfolio model to minimize the risk of falling under uncertainty is discussed. The risk of falling is represented by the value-at-risk of rate of return. Introducing the perception-based extension of the value-at-risk, this paper formulates a portfolio problem to minimize the risk of falling with fuzzy random variables. In the proposed model, randomness and fuzziness are evaluated respective...

Online education is becoming an important component of career and technical education (CTE) in teacher preparation and at the graduate level. In the midst of such growth, and in response to questions about quality compared with traditional learning, there is a consensus that online courses and programs should be designed based on the needs of adult learners. However, much of the literature in o...

Our group has developed a series of iron-based asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) catalysts for the reduction of polar double bonds. The activation of the precatalysts as well as the catalytic mechanism have been thoroughly investigated, but the decomposition pathways of these systems are poorly understood. Herein, we report a study of the deactivation pathways for an iron ATH catalyst und...

The theory of copulae is known to provide a useful tool for modelling dependence in integrated risk management. In the present paper we review and extend some of the more recent results for finding distributional bounds for functions of dependent risks. As an example, the main emphasis is put on Value-at-Risk as a risk measure.

ALVES GOMES, G. (1); MELIM MARQUES, L. (2); ALVES GOMES, G. (3); SPIEGEL NASCIMENTO, C. (4); ARAÚJO-JORGE CREMONINE, T. (5) y LUZ MOTTA, M. (6) (1) Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular. [email protected] (2) Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. [email protected] (3) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (4) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (5) Institut...

We present new near-infrared speckle interferometric observations of the young stellar object Elias 1. The emission is resolved into a narrow east-west elongated blue halo (FWHM about 0. ′′2x1. ′′0) and an unresolved core (FWHM < 0. ′′2). Previously, Kataza and Maihara (1991) had inferred an east-west elongated optically thin disk within which the NIR light is directly scattered. Adding new pie...

A prototype thermionic electron gun for a high-brightness X-ray generator has been developed. Its extraction voltage and design current are 60 kV and 100 mA (DC), respectively. The X-ray generator aims towards a maximum brilliance of 60 kW mm(-2). The beam sizes at the rotating anticathode must therefore be within 1.0 mm x 0.1 mm and a small beam emittance is required. The fabricated electron g...