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Les captives de réassurance : une nouvelle approche de la gestion des risques

open access: yes, 2005
Captives were created until 1970’ s and were imagined to optimize risks management of great industrial, financial or insurance firms. After taking lots of initiatives and capturing a large growing part of worldwide insurance premiums, doubt and ...
Jimenez, Christian, Mahot, Bertrand
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Descriptive, comparative, and functional anatomy of the facial musculature in cattle (Bos taurus)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Facial expressions can provide insight into animal emotions and pain, but no standardized system for assessing the entire facial display in cattle (Bos taurus Linnaeus) exists. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS), originally developed for humans, identifies distinct facial movements based on mimetic muscles.
Maja Söderlind   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The musculature and skeleton of the pelvic fin of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936) (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes): Morphology and sexual dimorphism

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
This work brings new information on the sexual characteristics of the crocodile shark (Pseudocarcharias kamoharai) exploring the pelvic fin musculature, as well as the siphon sac and the musculature and skeleton of the clasper. Our paper is the first to point out clearly the sexual dimorphism related exclusively to the pelvic fin musculature in males ...
Laura F. Mianutti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative muscle architecture in large carnivorous marsupials (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) and links to substrate use and prey processing

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dasyurid species Sarcophilus harrisii, Dasyurus maculatus, and Dasyurus viverrinus, occupying diverse ecological niches and forming a guild structure in Tasmania, provide a basis for examining the roles of various forelimb muscle groups in prey capture and locomotion.
Riya G. Bidaye   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

JUDICIARY CONTROL OF THE EXECUTIVE IN EMERGENCY IN USA - THE CASE OF CAPTIVES IN GUANTANAMO

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2006
The control of the Executive in emergency, that is of their actions and measures undertaken in such a case represents one of the most important constitutional and legal problems, primariry as in such a case the main values of the rale of law are ...
Saša Šegvić
doaj  

Optimal risk financing in large corporations through insurance captives

open access: yes, 2011
A captive is an insurance or reinsurance company established by a parent group to finance its own risks. Captives mix internal risk pooling between the business units of the parent group and risk transfer toward the reinsurance market.
Picard, Pierre, Pinquet, Jean
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Born this way: Does variation in perinatal limb bone morphology predict adult locomotor repertoire in primates?

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Primates show a high degree of locomotor diversity that engenders similar variance in limb bone cross‐sectional geometry and bending strength: leaping primates have stronger hindlimb bones whereas suspensory species have stronger forelimb bones.
Angela M. Mossor   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Briséis et la plainte funèbre de l’épouse dans l’épopée homérique

open access: yesCahiers Mondes Anciens, 2012
The funeral lament is the type of speech most closely associated with, and representative of, the female voice in the Iliad. In book 19, Briseis, war booty and geras of Achilles, utters such a lament over the dead body of Patroclus. In the preceding book,
Marella Nappi
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental differences in cortical bone structure in chimpanzee and human femora reflect early locomotor independence in humans

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minorías prósperas en la economía corsaria literaria

open access: yesRassegna Iberistica, 2018
Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews.
Gordon, Michael
doaj   +1 more source

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