The Japanese life insurance industry developed through the 1980s in a stable manner, supported by the high growth of domestic economy. The business in force including individual annuity and group insurance exceeded 1,300 trillion yen. In 1987, the United States was already replaced by Japan as the No. 1 nation by the insurance in force. Subsequently, the in-force insurance ratio of the national...

| This paper examines and compares the merits and demerits of the national (global) and the regional (partitioned) voting system where the national voting selects a candidate directly by a simple majority of the entire voting population of the nation while the regional voting chooses the candidate indirectly by a majority of the regions, not by the majority of the entire votes. And we demonstra...

Introduction: In recent years, a number of researchers have recognized signs of past glacial activity on Mars and features that could be extant rock glaciers [1,2]. There has also been the recognition of " pasted on " terrains which are interpreted as dust-covered snow or ice deposits [3]. Many of these features are attributed to relatively recent (within the last several million years) periods...

Adequate nutrition is essential in early childhood to ensure healthy growth, proper organ formation and function, a strong immune system, and neurological and cognitive development. Child malnutrition – as measured by poor child growth – is an important indicator for monitoring population nutritional status and health. In 2013, about 17%, or 98 million children under five years of age in develo...

The UK textile industry was very prosperous in the past but in the 1970s Britain started to import textile materials from abroad. Since 1990, half of its textile materials have been imported from the EEA (European Economic Area), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and North America countries. Meanwhile, UK imports from China have increased dramatically. Through comparisons, this pap...

Our aim was to determine if the high frequency of metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) in Navajo Indians of the Southwestern United States is the result of a "genetic bottleneck" that occurred in the mid 19th century. Navajo Nation, Indian Health Service, and other national databases were queried for Native American patients with MLD. Pedigrees, including birth location, were established by inter...

the knowledge of Utopia u3 has become in the course of abstract ly p lann ing backwards. Now it seems possible that w3 m i g h t be r. So create a new hypothesis h. The above solution can be varlabalized using procedural abstraction [I lewitt 1971; Sussman 1973] into a procedure as follows

INTRODUCTION In the history of the United States of America, multilingual communities have subsisted side by side. Among the many languages spoken throughout the country, we could mention first all the original Native American languages and then a multitude of languages that immigrants from all over the world have brought into the country. Together with English, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, ...

INTRODUCTION Information on the relationship between diabetes prevalence and built environment attributes could allow public health programs to better target populations at risk for diabetes. This study sought to determine the spatial prevalence of diabetes in the United States and how this distribution is associated with the geography of common diabetes correlates. METHODS Data from the Cent...