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Stamp vignette on medical science: Ernst Chain--Nobel Prize for work on Penicillin
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Ernst Boris Chain, a German-born biochemist, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology with pathologist Howard W. Florey (1898-1968) and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative value in a number of infectious diseases." Chain was primarily responsible for chemically characterizing penicillin, which made it easier to design methods of purification and synthesis. Florey developed the methods that made penicillin available for widespread medical use. Although Fleming is credited with discovering penicillin, a French military ...
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Longevity bonds: financial engineering, valuation, and hedging.
Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
; ...examines the main characteristics of longevity bonds (LBs) and shows that they can...enormously in their sensitivities to longevity shocks. We examine different ways of...as a risk management tool for hedging longevity risks. INTRODUCTION One of the largest...
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Longevity Alliance Announces New Financial Service.
Business Wire
; Longevity Financial Designed to Help Baby Boomers...Before and After Retirement CHICAGO -- Longevity Alliance announced the latest addition...monitoring, services deemed critical by Longevity's audience of older Americans. Investment...
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Longevity risk and capital markets.
Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
; ...corporations, and individuals face increasing longevity risk. Pay-as-you-go state pensions...this, in conjunction with increased longevity, has caused the inversion of some countries...and so increased the severity of the longevity risk problem for pay-as-you-go...
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Longevity pay in the States: echo from the past or sound of the future?
Magazine article from: Public Personnel Management
; Longevity Pay in the States: Echo From the Past or Sound of the Future? The...grade. A more explicit means of rewarding continuing employees is longevity pay. Longevity pay is extra compensation for employees who have reached the maximum...
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Review: Longevity attributes of Bos indicus x Bos taurus crossbred cows1
Magazine article from: Professional Animal Scientist
; ...females can be expensive to produce. The longevity expressed by these crossbred cows can...Bos taurus, Cattle, Crossbreeding, Longevity.) Introduction Preweaning productivity...crossbred cows can be attributed to their longevity. The purpose of this review is to summarize...
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In depth: Technical view - Longevity swaps: a legal perspective.
Magazine article from: Pensions Week
; ...Everyone seems to be talking about them: longevity swaps are in vogue. This started back...Babcock International entered into a longevity swap. Are they a vital new tool for...risk that the general population's longevity increases; Basis risk - the risk that...
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Calories and longevity: do they really matter?(Report)
Magazine article from: Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
; ...to devise ways to target the newfound longevity genes in order to achieve the alleged...actually restricting calories. So, does longevity depend on eating less or eating more...society are precariously close to seeking longevity simply for longevity's sake. Where...
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Demographic issues in longevity risk analysis.
Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
; ...ABSTRACT Fundamental to the modeling of longevity risk is the specification of the assumptions...nature and causes of historical changes in longevity and the implications of these factors...nature and causes of historical changes in longevity and recent efforts at deterministic and...
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Personality, intelligence, and longevity: a cross-cultural perspective.(Report)
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
; ...individual difference variables predict longevity? Friedman et al. (1993) discovered that childhood conscientiousness predicted longevity. Friedman et al. (1995) found that...explain the effects of conscientiousness on longevity. Other researchers have focused on the...
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JP Morgan Launches First Longevity Risk Index
Newspaper article from: Daily News
; ...index designed to benchmark and trade longevity risk for the first time, JP Morgan has...risk for pensions, commonly labeled as longevity risk. As with any other risk, there...with a comprehensive framework to manage longevity risk and, therefore, help them bridge...
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