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How to safeguard the continuous renal replacement therapy circuit: a narrative review

Frontiers in Medicine
The high prevalence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in ICU patients emphasizes the need to understand factors influencing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) circuit lifespan for optimal outcomes.
Chaomin Hu, Chaomin Hu, Pengfei Shui, Bo Zhang, Xin Xu, Zhengquan Wang, Bin Wang, Jie Yang, Yang Xiang, Jun Zhang, Hongying Ni, Yucai Hong, Zhongheng Zhang, Zhongheng Zhang   +13 more
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Modelling the Effectiveness of Vegetative Nature‐Based Solutions for Coastal Flood Risk Mitigation

Journal of Flood Risk Management
Traditional grey solutions, such as seawalls, are increasingly recognised as being unsustainable for long‐term coastal flood risk management, due to high costs and negative environmental impacts.
Yengi Emmanuel Daro Justine, Avidesh Seenath   +1 more
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Financial Innovation for an Aging World [PDF]

Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging.
John Piggott, Michael Sherris, Olivia S. Mitchell, Shaun Yow   +3 more
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Risk Equity: A New Proposal [PDF]

, 2007
What does distributive justice require of risk regulators? Various executive orders enjoin health and safety regulators to take account of “distributive impacts,” “equity,” or “environmental justice,” and many scholars endorse these requirements.
Adler, Matthew D.
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Exit and Failure of Credit Unions in Brazil: A Risk Analysis

Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2015
This study aims to investigate the factors that affect the market exit of Brazilian singular credit unions from 1995 to 2009; it also identifies and lists the determinants of various types of market exits and analyzes whether profitability is a ...
Flávio Leonel de Carvalho, Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Sigismundo Bialoskorski Neto, Aquiles Elie Guimarães Kalatzis   +3 more
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Understanding, modelling and managing longevity risk: key issues and main challenges

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2012
This article investigates the latest developments in longevity risk modelling, and explores the key risk management challenges for both the financial and insurance industries. The article discusses key definitions that are crucial for the enhancement of the way longevity risk is understood; providing a global view of the practical issues for longevity ...
Barrieu, Pauline, Bensusan, Harry, El Karoui, Nicole, Hillairet, Caroline, Loisel, Stéphane, Ravanelli, Claudia, Salhi, Yahia   +6 more
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ESG perceptions in the corporate sphere: are there differences by firm size, gender of owners/managers & business duration?

Serbian Journal of Management
This paper investigates corporate perceptions of ESG and compares findings across three dimensions: company size, manager gender, and business longevity.
Michal Kudej , Michal Erben , Jan Kubálek   +2 more
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The Private Value of Public Pensions [PDF]

Individual retirement savings accounts are replacing or supplementing public basic pensions. However at decumulation, replacing the public pension with an equivalent private sector income stream may be costly.
Konstantin Petrichev, Susan Thorp
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a cardiac transplant recipient

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2014
An increasing number of cardiac transplants are being carried out around the world. With increasing longevity, these patients present a unique challenge to non-transplant anesthesiologists for a variety of transplant related or incidental surgeries.
Seema R Pandya, Saloni Paranjape
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The Mexican pension annuity market [PDF]

This paper analyzes the performance and development of the Mexican pension annuity market established as a consequence of the 1997 pension reform. The Mexican experience displays interesting characteristics providing lessons for other countries that ...
Impavido, Gregorio
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