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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A lack of standard approaches for testing and reporting the performance of metal halide perovskites and organic semiconductor radiation detectors has resulted in inconsistent interpretation of performance parameters, impeding progress in the field. This Perspective recommends key metrics and experimental details, which are suggested for reporting in ...
Jessie A. Posar +8 more
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Solvency risk minimizing guaranteed returns in life insurance [PDF]
, 2016 Return guarantee constitutes a key ingredient of classical life insurance premium calculation. In the current low interest rate environment insurers face increasingly strong financial incentives to reduce guaranteed returns embedded in life insurance ...
Szüle, Borbála
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Microneedle‐Based Biofertilizer Delivery Improves Plant Growth Through Microbiome Engineering
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This figure shows how microneedles are used to deliver biofertilizers to enhance plant growth through microbial migration, metabolic reprogramming, and changes in plant endogenous microbiome. Abstract This study presents a microneedle‐based system for the delivery of rhizospheric biofertilizers into plant tissues to enhance growth.
Zhicheng Le +14 more
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Determinants of Life Insurance Demand in Ethiopia
, 2018 One of the ways of protection a family in case of hardships in life, life insurance is a very important and necessary protection. Among the different problem people face in life are; the breadwinner dies or is disabled and cannot generate income. It also uses for saving purpose and it pays the sum assured in case of maturity the insured can take loans ...
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Tax Incentives and the Demand for Life Insurance: Evidence from Italy [PDF]
The theoretical literature suggests that taxation can have a large impact on household portfolio selection and allocation. In this paper we consider the tax treatment of life insurance, considering the cancellation of tax incentives in Italian life ...
Luigi Pistaferri, Tullio Jappelli
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review explores the evolving role of microneedle systems in psoriasis management, highlighting their potential for enhanced drug delivery, diagnosis, and disease monitoring. It also discusses unmet clinical needs for psoriasis management and technical challenges, while outlining strategic directions to advance microneedle integration into routine ...
Fatma Moawad +3 more
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Pension Risk, Retirement Saving and Insurance [PDF]
Using a representative sample of Italian investors, we estimate the risk associated with pension benefits by eliciting for each individual the subjective distribution of the replacement rate as a summary indicator of social security wealth.
Luigi Guiso +2 more
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Determinants of Life Insurance Demand in Ethiopia
, 2011 The Ethiopian insurance industry is experiencing encouraging growth since its inception in 1905; however, there is still low level insurance penetration equal to 0.2 % of GDP. The paper tries to explore the determinants of life insurance demand in Ethiopia using a time series data over the period of 1980-2009 within an error correction model.
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Mortality Contingent Claims: Impact of Capital Market, Income, and Interest Rate Risk [PDF]
In this paper, we consider optimal insurance, portfolio allocation, and consumption rules for a stochastic wage earner with CRRA preferences whose lifetime is random.
Raimond Maurer, Wolfram Horneff
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Detecting proteins secreted by a single cell while retaining its viability remains challenging. A particles‐in‐particle (PiPs) system made by co‐encapsulating barcoded microparticles (BMPs) with a single cell inside an alginate hydrogel particle is introduced.
Félix Lussier +10 more
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