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... retirement plans so far These trends collectively can be called the Wave They also are called the Retirement Wave or the Age Wave The Wave can be summed up as: the aging ofthe large Baby Boom generation, ... RULES OF RETIREMENT Straining the Government The demise of Social Security and Medicare has been forecast for some time We are nearing the days of reckoning for these programs Exact dates of their ... increase This is a major change For many years, the percentage of older Americans participating in the labor force steadily declined The decline was most striking among men, because at the start of...
... radiation and transport cooling losses that must be compensated The transport of particles and energy in tokamaks was then (and remains today) an area of active plasma physics research, and reliance ... intermediate, and similar The experimental reactor performance parameters must be a significant but realistically achievable extrapolation ofthe existing database toward what was needed fora future ... perhaps the leading tokamak theorist oftheday and head ofthe principal USSR tokamak fusion program at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow; Gunter Grieger, a plasma physicist and...
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... such as movement of images and rhythm acceleration [13] A participant receives hour of AMRR therapy, times aweekfor month, fora total of 12 therapy training sessions An average of 8-12 sets of ... kinematic data is used for computational assessment and generates the interactive feedback Based on observation and the computational assessment, the clinician may adapt the system extension ofthe ... was classified as no feedback (NFB) Forthe two resulting sets of FB and NFB trials, the mean performance of all initial trials k (pk mean) was compared to the mean performance of all immediately...
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... necrosis factor) and local (upregulation of RANKL (receptor activator for nuclear factor κB ligand)) events in patients with inflammatory arthritis dramatically alter the phenotype of circulating ... biomarkers fora number of different inflammatory disorders The quest for these markers continues and this report highlights a novel population that may further clarify characteristic features of ... demonstrate the presence of this rare proliferative subset, cells were cultured for days after labeling with CSFE The expression data on osteoclast-related genes were obtained on day 23 of culture and...
... supervision of PMC and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ... as the acquisition of data Statistical analyses and interpretation of data were performed by PMC, JC, SDC, MG, PR and BS PR was principally involved in the drafting ofthe manuscript under the ... presence of opioid withdrawal symptoms was a determinant of non-medical use of opioids and may serve as a clinical indicator of inadequate dosage, medication, or type of follow-up Sustainability and...
... measured at day 1, day 6, and the change in value between day and Stata 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) computer software was used for statistical analysis All interval data in tables and ... calculated for each variable (Table 3) The only variable associated with death in these analyses was a decrease in the Crs (OR 2.14, p = 0.02) between days and of mechanical ventilation for ALI ... statistical difference in daily or cumulative fluid balance Table Multivariate adjusted odds ratio of death for selected variables on day 1, day and the change in each variable between day and...
... -casein 51 a and characterization of those of its genetic variants which are synthesized at a high level, a! l-Cn A, B and C Protein Seq Data Anal 2, 181-188 Brignon G, Mahé MF, Ribadeau-Dumas ... infrequent, the null allele #-Cn° may be widespread, since a null individual was observed in the Italian Garganica dairy breed (Dall’Olio et at, 1989), and another in the local dairy population of Corsica, ... in that they are associated with less o in milk than the normal or strong alleles, a! l-CnA!B and C i-casein s The characterization ofthe protein variants was carried out by Brignon et al 51...
... However, fora pair of quasi-solutions hðt; xÞ and hðt; xÞ, the sector hhðt; xÞ; hðt; xÞi is an attractor ofthe associated initial boundary value problem Furthermore, if hðt; xÞ ¼ hðt; xÞ, then the ... the quasi-solution hðt; xÞ (or hðt; xÞ) is exactly the solution, and the asymptotic behavior ofthe solutions to the associated initial boundary value problem is also obtained Therefore, the sufficient ... [4] S Ahmad, A. C Lazer, Asymptotic behavior of solutions of periodic competition diffusion system, Nonlinear Anal., TMA 13 (1989) 263–284 [5] C.V Pao, Quasisolutions and global attractor of reaction...
... Preparing fora riskier and more regulated world is the judgment ofthe people who are managing risks on a day- to -day basis The danger I see with quantification is that the one thing you can guarantee ... that you will be precisely wrong.” Problems with gaining access to accurate, high-quality data also hamper the quantification and analysis process The question of appropriate data and the analysis ... executive of cer ofthe Global Association of Risk Managers By aggregating risks at an enterprise level, a company has a much better understanding of potential threats that could cause serious financial...
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... inflation rate can actually help achieve a full-information ideal for resource allocation, my argument also contradicts the claim that a variable inflation rate is the worst kind as well as the ... Levit.an and Werneke, 1984, pp 14-23) point to a downward bias inherent in available data The BLS estimates may, t.herefore, be about right after all Fora comparison of alternative measurements of ... overlooks, in other words, how changes in the demand for real money balances based on innovations to 32 aggregate productivity are accommodated by falling prices automatically and well ahead of any possible...
... performance ofthe feedback (aiming forthe ideal form) rather than the performance ofthe movement itself For example, the participant may move faster to achieve a faster musical speed because ... components and the user interacts with the movement ofthe abstract animated components The image that is animated may be familiar, but the user only sees the image at the beginning ofthe action (establishing ... multiple actions are completed Aggregate data visualizations, such as summaries of patient performance across ten reaches, can facilitate overall assessment and comparison of performance across multiple...