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PDF Ebook From Actuarial to Financial Valuation Principles

... kind” in Bühlmann (1987): “ ... finance and insurance mathematics should be presented to today’s students as one discipline”. In ... valuation of random amounts is an important topic in both actuarial and financial mathematics and has been studied extensively in both ...

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Ebook Low Inflation, Deflation, and Policies for Future Price Stability

Submitted by puput on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 02:57

The main subject of this conference deflationary shocks and their monetary policy responses is an excellent one. There is a huge amount of recent research to build on, and the conference is taking place at a time when policymakers who have confronted the reality of deflation and zero interest rates can bring a wealth of practical experience and market information to bear on the subject. I want to thank the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies for organizing the conference. I am looking forward to the papers and to the discussion, and to coming back to these issues at the panel session at the end of the conference.


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Ebook Oil A Life Cycle Analysis Of Its Health And Environmental Impacts

Submitted by wulan on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:55

When significant deposits of oil were discovered in the 19th Century, this fossil fuel appeared to offer a limitless source of energy to drive development. While oil and the energy it supplies provide multiple benefits to human society, every stage in the life cycle from exploration to use can have harmful effects on our health and the environment. This re p o rt examines the health and environmental impacts of oil exploration, drilling, extraction, transport, refining and combustion.

Drilling and extraction carry acute and chronic hazards, including fires and blowouts, occupational injury and disease, and can lead to long-term harm to plant and animal communities. Oil spills and leaks along coastlines pose risks for marine life and fisheries, and can threaten the livelihoods of human communities. Refining exposes workers and wildlife to petroleum, its by product sand the chemicals used in the refining process. At the pump, gasoline can be both toxic and carcinogenic.


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PDF Ebook A New Pathogenical Theory of the Rheumatic Inflammatory Diseases

Submitted by antoq on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 06:43

We propose a new pathogenical point of view in rheumatic complains related to the success we had and we have in preclinical and clinical testes with the PL treatment, antioxidants and intravenous oxygen therapy. The main tissue disorder in rheumatic diseases (generally speaking) is produced by OFR (Oxygen Free Radicals) aggression. All the other biochemical and immunological imbalances are consequences of the OFR aggression. For that we propose Pathogenical Levels (a tool to help our understanding) which are useful in the explanation of that new pathogenical theory: The genetical level; the ill-organic level; the histo-biochemical level and the quantum level.


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