... errand was vain. If Carmonahad an automobile in the South of France, it was well hidden.As for the chauffeur who had inspectedmy car, and afterwardsmet Carmona at another garage, he had disappeared, ... anarchist to throw a bomb at a royal personage on the veryday I arrived at Barcelona, thinly “disguised” under an Englishname.My identity was discovered at once, as the son ofthe greatdead ... to Barcelona, from Marseilles.”This was a sore subject. It is not my fault that my father wasas recklessly brave a general, and as obstinately determined a partisan as Don Carlos ever had....
... extended: another adjective added to a certain noun phrase, a temporal adjunct added to a clause, another sentence add,~cl tO a paragraph, and so on. Which attachment points exist at any moment is ... pronominalization): The Ashanti are an African people. They live in central Ghana and neighboring regions of Togo and Ivory Coast. This is in West Africa. Their population is more than 900~00. They ... adjectives. 2. The characteristics ofthe available attachment points, especiafly the grammatical constraints that they would impose on the realization of any unit using them. The "new...
... up and separated the combatants. Although the coxcomb Amarah richly deserved the punishment he received from Antar, yet for a slave to raise his hand against a noble Absian was an unpardonable ... They are slayers and piercers with their arrows and their darts Archers and strikers the enchantresses of men. The Romance of Antar 22 hear an account of his exploits, and the fair Abla ... but separated from all my world isthe bond of thy connection. The Romance of Antar 23 ANTAR RESCUES HIS FATHER AND UNCLES. Antar then learns that his father Shedad and his uncles are gone...
... cart at time t, the cart accelerates according to Newton's Law as follows:where m isthe mass ofthe cart. Then, as a result of this acceleration a( t), the velocity v(t + 1) ofthe cart ... involve a system whose state is described by state variables. The choice ofthe control variable causes the state ofthe system to change. The goal is to choose the value ofthe control variable ... to choose the force that is to be applied to the cart. The application ofthe force causes the state ofthe system to change. The desired target state is that the cart be at rest at the center...
... also accepted. As we have seen, all the available scientific discoveries disprove the claims of the theoryofevolution and reveal the truth of creation.28 THE COLLAPSE OFTHETHEORYOFEVOLUTION ... this can readily see that the sole aim of Harun Yahya's books is to overcome disbelief and todisseminate the moral values ofthe Qur'an. The success and impact of this service are manifest ... However, this isa false proof put forward by evolutionistswho take advantage ofthe layman's lack of information onthese subjects. mammals all appeared suddenly, with complex organs and sys-tems....
... in the presence of EGTA. Analysis of these data shows that the fluorescence intensity decrease, extrapolated to infiniteconcentration, is about 15%. An estimation ofthe apparentKd(1 lM) can ... nucleated actin polymerization and boundG-actin.In a previous paper [36], we showed by ELISA that the binding of gelsolin to G-actin was similar for various actiniso-forms [rabbit alpha skeletal, ... geometry at the barbed end ofthe capped actin filament, as the actins inGA2are antiparallel [41]. We [29] and others [4,5,7,20], haveproposed various models for this interaction in which the N-terminal...
... commodity taxation(e.g., Salanie, 2003). The parameter α isa personal attribute that is singled out because ithas cost effects. Specifically, it is assumed that the unit costs of good iconsumed by ... examine the utilitarian approach to thisissue using thetheoryof optimum commodity taxation.Consider a population that consists of H individuals. Denote the expected utility of individual ... decreases in α.Examples of particular interest are annuities, life insurance, and healthinsurance. The cost of an annuity rises with longevity. The cost of life insurance, on the other hand,...
... assumed that annuities provide payouts for the duration of the owner’s lifetime and that no payments are made after the death of the annuitant. We called these regular annuities. There are alsoperiod-certain ... effected to avoid the disappointment that is often felt in the event ofthe early death of an annuitant. The calculation of yield closelyfollows the method used for immediate annuities and this is desirable ... amount of regular annuities bya and the amount of X-annuities by a x. The additional payment that an X-annuity offers ifdeath occurs before age X is δ, δ > 0.Consider the first-best allocation...
... survival rates than the population averagerates (table 9A. 1 in the appendix provides the underlying data). Adverse selection seems somewhat smaller among females, perhaps becauseof the smaller variance ... rates and the rates appli-cable to annuitants, that is, those who purchase private annuities. Asfigures 9.1 (a) and (b) clearly display, at all ages annuitants, whethermales or females, have higher ... risk classes. Uncertainty aboutfuture risk-class realizations creates a demand by risk-averse individualsfor insurance against this uncertainty. The goal of disability benefitsprograms, private...
... annuities can invest their proceedsin assets that earn the market rate of interest, and in addition theyobtain the hazard rate because their obligations to a fraction of annuityholders, equal to the ... (4.4).When there isa positive rate of interest on assets, the competitive rate of return on annuities is equal to the rate of interest plus the hazard rate. The reason is obvious: The issuers of annuities ... 1.(8.26) The future instantaneous rate of return at any age z ≥ M on long-termannuities held at age M isa weighted average ofthe risk-class rates of return, the weights being the fraction of each...
... individual can purchase or sell at any age an asset calledannuities. The quantity of annuities at age z is denoted a( z). A unit of annuities is purchased at a price of 1 and yields an instantaneous ... that, unlike the analysis ofa competitiveannuity market, the analysis of individual behavior in the absence of such a market cannot readily be carried over to analyze market equilibrium. The ... termed the no-arbitrage condition, is equivalent to the condition that expected profitsare equal to 0: Annuities pay to age-z holders a rate of return that is equal to the hazard rate at this age....
... to the purchase of annuities from increases in earnings compared to the purchase by rationalindividuals. By deliberately delaying implementation ofthe purchase of annuities, this plan may accommodate ... proposal is to have a new class of annuities, each carrying a guaranteed commitment bythe issuer to refund the annuity, whenpresented bythe holder, at a (pre) specified price. Call these (guaranteed)refundable ... if available, may improve the marketallocation in terms of expected utility?4We answer this question in the affirmative by proposing a new financial instrument that may achievethis goal. The...