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Adoption of projected mortality table for the Slovenian market using the Poisson log-bilinear model to test the minimum standard for valuing life annuities [PDF]

Economic and Business Review, 2015
With the introduction of Solvency II a consistent market approach to the valuation of insurance assets and liabilities is required. For the best estimate of life annuity provisions one should estimate the longevity risk of the insured population in ...
Darko Medved, Aleš Ahčan, Jože Sambt, Ermanno Pitacco   +3 more
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Differential Item Functioning on the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 by Disease Subtype, Language, Sex, and Age Among People With Systemic Sclerosis: A Scleroderma Patient‐Centered Intervention Network Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu, Marie‐Eve Carrier, Marie‐Claude Geoffroy, Meira Golberg, Linda Kwakkenbos, Susan J. Bartlett, Catherine Fortuné, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Geneviève Guillot, Laura K. Hummers, Amanda Lawrie‐Jones, Vanessa L. Malcarne, Michelle Richard, Maureen Sauvé, Luc Mouthon, Andrea Benedetti, Brett D. Thombs, on behalf of the SPIN Investigators, Claire E. Adams, Marie Hudson, Maureen D. Mayes, James Stempel, Robyn K. Wojeck, Christian Agard, Laurent Alric, Marc André, Floryan Beaslay, Elana J. Bernstein, Sabine Berthier, Lyne Bissonnette, Sophie Blaise, Eva Bories, Alessandra Bruns, Carlotta Cacciatore, Patricia Carreira, Marion Casadevall, Benjamin Chaigne, Lorinda Chung, Benjamin Crichi, Thylbert Deltombe, Christopher P. Denton, Tannvir Desroche, Robyn Domsic, James V. Dunne, Bertrand Dunogue, Regina Fare, Dominique Farge‐Bancel, Paul R. Fortin, Tracy Frech, Loraine Gauzère, Anne Gerber, Jessica K. Gordon, Brigitte Granel‐Rey, Aurélien Guffroy, Geneviève Gyger, Eric Hachulla, Daphna Harel, Monique Hinchcliff, Sabrina Hoa, Michael Hugues, Alena Ikic, Sindhu R. Johnson, Nader Khalidi, Kimberly S. Lakin, Marc Lambert, Maggie Larche, David Launay, Yvonne C. Lee, Paul Legendre, Catarina Leite, Hélène Maillard, Nancy Maltez, Joanne Manning, Isabelle Marie, Maria Martin Lopez, Thierry Martin, Ariel Masetto, Arsène Mekinian, Sheila Melchor Díaz, Morgane Mourguet, Christelle Nguyen, Karen Nielsen, Mandana Nikpour, Louis Olagne, Vincent Poindron, Janet Pope, Susanna Proudman, Grégory Pugnet, Loïc Raffray, François Rannou, Alexis Régent, Frederic Renou, Sébastien Rivière, David Robinson, Esther Rodríguez Almazar, Tatiana Sofia Rodríguez‐Reyna, Sophie Roux, Perrine Smets, Vincent Sobanski, Robert F. Spiera, Virginia Steen, Evelyn Sutton, Carter Thorne, Damien Vagner, John Varga, Pearce Wilcox, Vanessa Cook, Cassidy Dal Santo, Monica D'Onofrio, Elsa‐Lynn Nassar   +110 more
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Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene: Catalyst Design and Synchrotron‐Based Characterizations

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review evaluates strategies for electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene, focusing on copper‐based catalyst design and microenvironment modulation to achieve industrial‐grade performance. By leveraging operando synchrotron‐based characterizations, we provide a multiscale understanding of dynamic structural transformations and key reaction ...
Meng Zhang, Zuolong Chen, Yimin A. Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Postoperative Stress Accelerates Atherosclerosis Through Inflammatory Remodeling of the HDL Proteome and Impaired Reverse Cholesterol Transport

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study shows that noncardiac surgical inflammation rapidly disrupts HDL function and cholesterol efflux in mice and human patients. Impaired reverse cholesterol transport after surgery drives rapid lipid accumulation, NETosis, and apoptosis within atherosclerotic plaques.
Dominique M. Boucher, Victoria Lorant, Valerie Rochon, Abigail Carter, Cameron Stotts, My‐Anh Nguyen, Thomas Laval, Christina Emerton, Nathan Joyce, Nysa Vinayak, Marlena Scaffidi, David Cook, Katey J. Rayner, Rebecca C. Auer, Scott M. Gordon, Mireille I. Ouimet   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimación y proyección de la mortalidad para Costa Rica con la aplicación del método Lee-Carter con dos variantes [PDF]

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, 2013
RESUMENEl modelo de Lee y Carter ha sido aplicado para realizar estimaciones de la mortalidad en Costa Rica durante el período 1970-2010, y estas a su vez permiten hacer proyecciones que contribuyen al estudio del curso de la mortalidad en nuestra ...
Eduardo Aguilar Fernández
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Comparing strategies for matching mortality forecasts to the most recently observed data: exploring the trade-off between accuracy and robustness

Genus, 2018
Background Given the increased link between retirement age and payments to the development in life expectancy, a precise and regular forecast of life expectancy is of utmost importance. The choice of the jump-off rates, i.e. the rates in the last year of
Lenny Stoeldraijer, Coen van Duin, Leo van Wissen, Fanny Janssen   +3 more
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions

Demographic Research, 2006
We compare the short- to medium-term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindonald-Smith variants, and the more flexible Hyndman ...
Leonie Tickle, Rob J. Hyndman, Piet de Jong, Heather Booth   +3 more
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An alternative procedure to obtain the mortality rate with non-linear functions: Application to the case of the Spanish population.

PLoS ONE, 2019
This paper presents an alternative calculation procedure to calculate the mortality rate, exploiting the data available in the Eurostat demography database for Spain.
Marcos Postigo-Boix, Ramón Agüero, José L Melús-Moreno   +2 more
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