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A Robotic Urinary Bladder Enabling Volume Monitoring and Assisted Micturition

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
An implantable robotic bladder is presented that can store urine in an origami‐designed enclosure. An inductance sensing principle can monitor and transfer the urine volume in real‐time. It can actively expand based on the amount of urine collected from kidneys and apply on‐demand mechanical compression to assist urination.
Izadyar Tamadon, Michele Ibrahimi, Federica Semproni, Veronica Iacovacci, Arianna Menciassi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitating Genetic Testing for Perinatal Demise: Development of a Multidisciplinary Workflow

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genetic contributors to perinatal demise are common but frequently undiagnosed due to clinical and logistical barriers. We aimed to improve access to genetic for intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD), stillbirth, and early neonatal death by developing a multidisciplinary workflow.
Mackenzie Mosera, Samantha Stover, Elise Boos, Molly Casey, Joseph Fanning, Chelsea Fechter, Matthew Grace, L. Dupree Hatch, Michaela Ibach, Carla Jackson, Jiancong Liang, Caitlin Mann, Emily A. Morris, Jessica Turnbull, Marie Williams, Bryce A. Schuler   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of the Austrian Law on Insurance Contracts in 1917

Journal on European History of Law, 2011
The 1917 Insurance Contract Act was an important milestone in the development of enactments in the field of liability in insurance system. However, the whole act never became effective. Above all, enactments dealing with special types of insurances have
Karel Schelle
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EUROPEIZACJA PRAWA DOTYCZĄCEGO UMOWY UBEZPIECZENIA

Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017
Euro-merge of the Law Regarding Insurance Contract Summary The author presents the origins of the Polish commercial insurance law in the context of the process o f its Euro-merge.
Jan Łopuski
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Life Insurance: Regulation as Contract Enforcement [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
Debating the minutiae of insurance regulation without a clear understanding of why insurance companies are regulated is futile. In this non-technical essay I discuss the economic rationale for insurance business regulation. I conclude that the appropriate role of the regulator in this industry is to enforce contracts which would otherwise be broken ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Bank deposit insurance and business cycles: controlling the volatility of risk-based premiums [PDF]

Proposals to make deposit insurance risk-based need to consider how premiums would fluctuate over the business cycle. This paper derives a new deposit insurance contract that has the following three features: 1) it is fairly priced in the sense that the ...
George G. Pennacchi
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Ross v. Odom: Income Tax Treatment of Proceeds From Employer Funded and Administered Survivors’ Benefit Programs [PDF]

, 1969
Even though an independent insurance company was not utilized, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held in Ross v. Odom that the proceeds from a state established and administered survivors\u27 benefit program were tax exempt as proceeds ...

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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Index Insurance in Iran’s Agriculture: case of wheat growers [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Drought-induced risk endangers farmers in arid and semi-arid regions. Insurance is recognized as an appropriate policy alternative to support farmers facing with financial losses associated with production reduction.
M. Ahmadinejad, Y. Zeraatkish, R. Moghaddasi, A. Mohammadinejad   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Opportunistic Fraud in Automobile theft Insurance Fluctuate with the Business Cycle ? [PDF]

We analyze the empirical relationship between opportunistic fraud and business cycle. We find that residual opportunistic fraud exists both in the contract with replacement cost endorsement and the contract with no-deductible endorsement in the Taiwan ...
Georges Dionne, Kili C. Wang
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