Under certain conditions the optimal insurance policy will offer full coverage above a deductible, as Arrow and others have shown long time ago. Interestingly, the same design of insurance policies applies in case of a single loss and ex-ante moral hazard. However, many insurance policies provide coverage against a variety of losses and the possibilities for the insured to affect the probabilit...

On March 11, 2011 (hereafter 3.11), a magnitude nine earthquake hit the northeast part of Japan’s main island. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged the cooling systems of the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s reactors operated by Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO). Ranked seven (the most severe) on a seven-step scale by the International Atomic Energy Agency, comparable to the Chernobyl accident in ...

the present investigation deals with the development of controlled release tablets of salbutamol sulphate using graft copolymers (st-g-pmma and ast-g-pmma) of starch and acetylated starch. drug excipient compatibility was spectroscopically analyzed via ft-ir, which confirmed no interaction between drug and other excipients. formulations were evaluated for physical characteristics like hardness,...

The aim of the present study was to assess whether endogenous and newly synthesized glutamate can be released from differentiating cultured cerebellar granule cells in a way compatible with a neurotransmitter role. Granule cells from 8-day-old rat cerebella were grown in basal Eagle's medium with 10% fetal calf serum for 2-12 days in vitro (DIV), then washed with Krebs-Ringer medium, and labele...

BACKGROUND One of the most efficient radiation protection methods to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes in case of accidental radioactive iodine release is the administration of potassium iodine (KI). Although KI administration is recommended by WHO's guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents and is also widely implemented in most national guidelines, the scientific ...

Coal, like most materials found in nature, contain trace quantities of the naturally occurring primordial radionuclides. Therefore, the combustion of coals results in the release into the environment of some natural radioactive elements and in a redistribution of these radioactive elements in the surface soil particularly in the vicinity of coal-fired power plants, where it can modify ambient r...

background: vegetation (food stuff) is grown in soil that contains many radioactive elements such as 238u (uranium), 232th (thorium) and 40k (potassium), which may get deposited either due to radioactive fallout or/and by absorption from the soil and can pose serious health hazards. materials and methods: natural radioactivity, radiological hazards and annual effective dose assessment was carri...

In this study differences in feelings of insecurity and ways of coping were assessed between 225 residents of an industrial area near a chemical complex and a control group at a distance of at least 15 kilometers from that complex. The results show that the residents of the industrial area judge the hazards as less threatening and less unacceptable than the control group and report less feeling...

The present investigation deals with the development of controlled release tablets of salbutamol sulphate using graft copolymers (St-g-PMMA and Ast-g-PMMA) of starch and acetylated starch. Drug excipient compatibility was spectroscopically analyzed via FT-IR, which confirmed no interaction between drug and other excipients. Formulations were evaluated for physical characteristics like hardness,...