Directions for improving the pension indexations mechanism in the context of Russian economy’s transformation by M. L. Dorofeev

“…The proposed directions were classified into four groups: 1) measures of a general economic nature, indirectly affecting the level of pension provision; 2) changing the general parameters of the existing pension system in order to optimize it; 3) the development of a non-governmental pension insurance system to solve the problem of a low replacement rate for high-income groups of pension recipients and 4) a change in the existing mechanism for indexing pensions, which involves more radical changes to fundamentally increase the level of pension provision for Russian pensioners.…”
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Investigations on Driver Unique Identification from Smartphone’s GPS Data Alone by Arijit Chowdhury, Tapas Chakravarty, Avik Ghose, Tanushree Banerjee, P. Balamuralidhar

“…Driver identification is an emerging area of interest in vehicle telematics, automobile control, and insurance. Recent body of works indicates that it may be possible to uniquely identify a driver using multiple dedicated sensors. …”
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Database Analysis of Eplerenone Use in Japanese Hypertensive Patients in Clinical Practice by Shoko Takahashi, Yoichi Ii, Yuji Yamamoto, Aya Ikeda, Yoko Fujimoto

“…Data of 160,992 hypertensive patients who used the same drugs for six months or more were collected from an insurance database from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2013. …”
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Evacuation after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Is a Cause of Diabetes: Results from the Fukushima Health Management Survey by Hiroaki Satoh, Tetsuya Ohira, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Akira Sakai, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Akira Ohtsuru, Yukihiko Kawasaki, Hitoshi Suzuki, Atsushi Takahashi, Gen Kobashi, Kotaro Ozasa, Seiji Yasumura, Shunichi Yamashita, Kenji Kamiya, Masafumi Abe

“…Subjects subsequently underwent annual health checkups with a focus on metabolic syndromes, which were conducted under the Health Care Insurers. Using the Comprehensive Health Check survey, we analyzed changes in the glucose metabolism before and after the disaster. …”
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Exploring Spatial Inequalities in COVID-19 Mortality and Their Association With Multidimensional Poverty in Colombia: A Spatial Analysis Study by Claudia Birchenall-Jiménez, Claudia Birchenall-Jiménez, Wilson Giovanni Jiménez-Barbosa, Javier Riascos-Ochoa, Federico Cosenz

“…In 2020, the significant variables were low educational achievement, barriers to early childhood care, child labor, school non-attendance, informal employment, lack of health insurance, inadequate floor material, and critical overcrowding. …”
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Donor Selection for Allogenic Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Clinical and Ethical Considerations by Irene Riezzo, Natascha Pascale, Raffaele La Russa, Arcangelo Liso, Monica Salerno, Emanuela Turillazzi

“…The issue of conflict of interest, when the same physician has the responsibility for both donor selection and recipient care, is highlighted as well as the need of an adequate insurance protection for all the parties involved.…”
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Bridging the Financial Divide: Factors That Influence Financial Exclusion amongst The Unbanked Population of Botswana by Gaone Geoffrey Seleka

“…Additionally, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), commercial banks, government policy makers, and regulators in the financial and insurance sectors can use the study's findings to obtain useful information and guidance. …”
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The Status of Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention in Nevada, USA by Anne M. Rothweiler, Elena E. Cabb, Shawn L. Gerstenberger

“…Emerging data indicates that Nevada is an area of rapid population growth, characterized by increasing immigration from Latin America, increasing numbers of children from low-income families with no health insurance. Also, childhood lead poisoning may arise from exposure to non-paint sources of lead. …”
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Crop Health Monitoring through WSN and IoT by ZongKe Bao

“…Other than effectiveness, the insurance and security of these IoT-based agrarian sensors are likewise significant from noxious enemies. …”
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Survey of the Factors Associated with a Woman's Choice to Have an Epidural for Labor Analgesia by Jennifer Harkins, Brendan Carvalho, Amy Evers, Sachin Mehta, Edward T. Riley

“…Univariate analysis showed the following variables were associated with whether women received an epidural (P<.01): partner preference, prior epidural, language, education, type of insurance, age, duration, and pitocin use. Using computed multiple logistic regression only partner preference and prior epidural were associated with whether women received an epidural. …”
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Fair allocation of fixed cost in one- and two-stage systems using data envelopment analysis by Faranak Hosseinzadeh Saljooghi, Ali reza Pishgooy, Farhad Hamidi

“…Then, to generalize the model in a two-stage mode, the data of 24 insurance companies with input, intermediate and output indicators have been used.…”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…They faced significant health coverage loss due to the dismantling of Seguro Popular, a public health insurance mechanism in place until the end of 2019, right before the start of the Covid pandemic. …”
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Designing a Model for Credit Risk Assessment of Customers for Guarantees Issued by the Export Guarantee Fund of Iran via Artificial Neural Network Model by Farshid Ahmadi Sartakhti, Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Seyed Shamsoddin Hoseini, Abbas Memarnejad

“…Being the exclusive official export credit insurance entity in Iran, it operates under complete government ownership, shouldering all obligations associated with the fund's coverage. …”
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Tracking the Economic Benefits Generated by the Hard Clam Aquaculture Industry in Florida by Charles Adams, Leslie Sturmer, Alan Hodges

“…Although successful by virtually any metric, the risks and uncertainty associated with commercial hard clam culture has led to the evaluation of programs that help mitigate risk, such as the former pilot Cultivated Clam Crop Insurance Program administered by USDA Risk Management Agency. …”
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Chinese Gini Coefficient from 2005 to 2012, Based on 20 Grouped Income Data Sets of Urban and Rural Residents by Jiandong Chen, Fuqian Fang, Wenxuan Hou, Fengying Li, Ming Pu, Malin Song

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IFRS AND AUDIT QUALITY: A DISCRETIONARY MODEL APPROACH by Eniola Ayisat Sulaiman, Wasiu Ajani Musa, Abubakar Sadiq Kasum

“…A sample of twenty (20) financial institutions comprising of ten (10) banks and ten (10) insurance companies were selected, and data from audited annual reports was subjected to a static panel regression technique. …”
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Activity of oil companies of Iraq and their role in the world economy by I. M. M. Mohammed, V. Pizengolts

“…Сurrently, oil market remains one of the most demanded types of energy resources, the trade of which can be called the most important element of modern world economic relations.The global market for oil and oil products is characterized by high volatility, which requires the development of various strategies for insuring financial losses. Futures contracts are one of the main market financial risk management tools. …”
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Historical hypotheses of chimpanzee tool use behaviour in relation to natural and human-induced changes in an East African rain forest by Thibaud Gruber

“…Later on, the British colonial power organized the exploitation of the forest through work plans aimed at insuring sustainable extraction of valuable timber. …”
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Les politiques agricoles de l'Indonésie et de la Malaisie face aux impératifs de la sécurité alimentaire by Stéphane Bernard, Jean-François Bissonnette

“…In order to address the transformations which have taken place in contemporary agricultural policies in those states, we ask the following question: What are the strategies deployed by Indonesian and Malaysian states to insure food security? To answer this question, policies pertaining to the two most important agricultural sectors in both countries, rice and palm oil, are analysed. …”
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