X iv :a st ro -p h/ 06 01 33 7 v1 16 J an 2 00 6 A Radio Pulsar Spinning at 716 Hz Jason W. T. Hessels, Scott M. Ransom, Ingrid H. Stairs, Paulo C. C. Freire, Victoria M. Kaspi, and Fernando Camilo Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada NRAO, 520 Edgemont Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224...

1885 ket anyway — insurers come and go all the time — but those who do leave now will undoubtedly blame health care reform, including the loss-ratio provisions. The American Medical Association actively lobbied the NAIC for strong loss-ratio requirements to ensure that insurance premiums actually pay for health care services. The share of premiums that goes to overhead and profit will also beco...

The fundamental process of ribosome biogenesis requires hundreds of factors and takes place in the nucleolus. This process has been most thoroughly characterized in baker's yeast and is generally well conserved from yeast to humans. However, some of the required proteins in yeast are not found in humans, raising the possibility that they have been replaced by functional analogs. Our objective w...

This project will contribute to the understanding of Jupiter’s atmosphere by examining the vertical cloud structure and correlating it with the following: (1) atmospheric features on a wide range of spatial scales, (2) the wavelength dependence of the single-scattering albedo in the visible and near-infrared continuum, and (3) the distribution of coloring agents (chromophores). This will be acc...

This paper investigates the area of overlapped echo data processing. In such cases, classical methods, such as Fourier-like techniques or pulse pair methods, fail to estimate the first three spectral moments of the echoes because of their lack of resolution. A promising method, based on a modelization of the covariance matrix of the time series and on a Stochastic Maximum Likelihood (SML) estim...

The recent 28th Annual ABS East Conference at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach attracted roughly 4,500 attendees. conference started on Monday, October 17, 2022, and ran through Wednesday, 19. Key themes included higher interest rates, inflation, prospect of a recession 2023, stagnating home prices, transition from LIBOR to SOFR, NAIC initiatives, student debt relief, ESG issues. overall mood w...

All Rights Reserved 219 INTRODUCTION Companies writing reinsurance are involved in the highest risk sector of the property-liability business. Commercial lines and liability exposures, the most difficult lines on a primary basis, are the types of risks most often reinsured. Because of this, the financial standards established for reinsurers should be carefully monitored.

The study investigated the levels of awareness and use of agricultural insurance scheme in Kogi State of Nigeria. A total of 240 respondents from eight communities were selected through a multistage random sampling technique. Data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistic, percentages and sigma scoring model. The results revealed that farmers in the St...

The study aimed at assessing the impact of Nigerian agricultural insurance corporation among students vocational and technical education towards self-reliance on production. identified scheme determined level awareness students. At this time, sector has seen a variety losses, including persistent flooding herders-farmers’ clashes, others. It is therefore necessary to insure farmers (students) r...

Insurers sell retail financial products called variable annuities that package mutual funds with minimum return guarantees over long horizons. Variable annuities accounted for $1.5 trillion or 34 percent of U.S. life insurer liabilities in 2015. Sales fell and fees increased after the 2008 financial crisis as the higher valuation of existing liabilities stressed risk-based capital. Insurers als...