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Protocol for an economic evaluation alongside the University Health Network Whiplash Intervention Trial: cost-effectiveness of education and activation, a rehabilitation program, and the legislated standard of care for acute whiplash injury in Ontario

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background Whiplash injury affects 83% of persons in a traffic collision and leads to whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). A major challenge facing health care decision makers is identifying cost-effective interventions due to lack of economic evidence ...
van der Velde Gabrielle, Côté Pierre, Bayoumi Ahmed M, Cassidy J David, Boyle Eleanor, Shearer Heather M, Stupar Maja, Jacobs Craig, Ammendolia Carlo, Carette Simon, van Tulder Maurits   +10 more
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The Effects of Tax-Law Changes on Property-Casualty Insurance Prices [PDF]

During the 1980s, the federal income tax treatment of property-casualty insurers and their policyholders underwent several important changes, the most significant of which came in 1986.
David F. Bradford, Kyle Logue
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Modeling the Inter-Arrival Time Between Severe Storms in the United States Using Finite Mixtures

Risks
When inter-arrival times between events follow an exponential distribution, this implies a Poisson frequency of events, as both models assume events occur independently and at a constant average rate. However, these assumptions are often violated in real-
Ilana Vinnik, Tatjana Miljkovic
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Sistema de vigilância epidemiológica para acidentes do trabalho: experiência na Zona Norte do Município de São Paulo (Brasil) Epidemiological vigilance system for accidents at work: first results from an experience in the Northern zone of S. Paulo City (Brazil)

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1990
No Brasil, e em São Paulo em particular, o sistema de vigilância epidemiológica restringe-se a algumas doenças transmissíveis, não havendo, na prática, vigilância referente a doenças não transmissíveis, especialmente às decorrentes do trabalho.
Ubiratan de Paula Santos, Victor Wünsch Filho, José Carlos do Carmo, Maria Maeno Settimi, Sérgio Destefani Urquiza, Cláudio Maierovitch P. Henriques   +5 more
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Background Uuncertainty and the Demand for Insurance against Insurable Risks [PDF]

Theory suggests that people facing higher uninsurable background risk buy more insurance against other risks that are insurable. This proposition is supported by Italian cross-sectional data.
Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli
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Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals [PDF]

One unusual feature of the U.S. property-casualty insurance industry is the coexistence of stock and mutual companies. This paper explores the performance of these forms in the industry through a dynamic assessment of how mutual and stock insurance ...
Patricia Born, Richard J. Zeckhauser, W. Kip Viscusi, William M. Gentry   +3 more
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A Review of Intelligent Orchard Sprayer Technologies: Perception, Control, and System Integration

Horticulturae
With the ongoing advancement of global agricultural modernization, intelligent technologies have gained significant attention in agricultural production—particularly in the field of intelligent orchard sprayers, where notable progress has been achieved ...
Minmin Wu, Siyuan Liu, Ziyu Li, Mingxiong Ou, Shiqun Dai, Xiang Dong, Xiaowen Wang, Li Jiang, Weidong Jia   +8 more
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Flexible Rate Filing Insurance Rate Regulation as Alternative to Incentive Incompatibility in Prior-Approval [PDF]

Competition can be an effective regulator of rates in property-casualty insurance markets. While many states have moved to file-and-use or use-and-file provisions, some have adopted flexible rate-filing regulations (flex-rating) as a means of combining ...
Strauss, Jason
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Corporate Insurance with Safety Loadings: A Note [PDF]

In a paper in this journal, Schnabel and Roumi (1989) assert that if uninsured debt is risky, a levered firm takes a casualty insurance with a positive safety loading if, and only if, the amount of debt is sufficiently high.
Johannes Hartl, Lutz G. Arnold
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