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Enhancing public safety and security of critical national infrastructure utilizing the Nigerian Satellite Augmentation System (NSAS) [PDF]
, 2015 After the First World War, radio time signals offered alternative technology for determination of the Greenwich time and thus longitude at sea. The first manifestation of new technology capable of usurping the super accurate mechanical chronometers ...
Chatwin, Chris, Lawal, Lasisi S
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Aggregate Savings in the Presence of Private and Social Insurance [PDF]
In the presence of uncertain lifetimes, social security has the characteristics of an annuity: a consumer pays a tax when young in exchange for receiving a social security benefit if he survives to be old.
Andrew B. Abel
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker +14 more
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The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security [PDF]
The aging of the population shakes the confidence in the economic viability of pay-as-you-go social security systems. We demonstrate how in a political-economy framework the shaken cofidence leads to the downsizing of the social security-system, and to ...
Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka
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Foreword: Health Care Reform in the United States—The Presidential Task Force [PDF]
, 1993 This essay serves as the foreword to Implementing U.S. Health Care Reform, a symposium held in 1993. The exact specifications of the new health care system depend on the package that President Clinton will send to Capitol Hill and the changes that ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objectives This study aimed to describe real‐world trends in preconception and prenatal use of antirheumatic drugs among pregnant individuals with rheumatic diseases in Ontario, Canada. Methods We conducted a time‐series analysis using repeated cross‐sectional data to examine annual patterns of disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) use among ...
Shenthuraan Tharmarajah +6 more
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The Case for National DNA Identification Cards [PDF]
, 2003 Foes of the United States have demonstrated their ability to strike at the heart of this country. Fear of renewed attacks and a desire for greater national security have now prompted many to call for improvements in the national personal identification ...
Quarmby, Ben
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Scandium (Sc)‐doped AlCoCrFeMo HEA coatings are fabricated via flame spraying with 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 wt% Sc additions. Among these, the HEA‐Sc0.3 coating exhibits the highest corrosion resistance, indicated by a more positive corrosion potential and lower current density.
Pankaj Kumar +7 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana +2 more
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Inclusion or Insurance? National Insurance and the future of the contributory principle [PDF]
This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessed by its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution of the "contributory principle" on which it was originally based. It argues that this decline is
John Hills
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