4th Circum Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference - Hydrocarbon Session.

4th International Research Conference

This paper develops dynamic structural models --an option value model and a dynamic programming model-of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) augment...

Mineral resources and geo-engineering

Metals used in everyday life are produced from ores occurring in the Earth’s crust. Geological processes are known to concentrate minerals to form ores of economic value. Mineral processing engineers concentrate these ores by mechanical and physico-chemical methods while the extractive metallurgist extracts the metals by chemical means.

4th International DAAAM Conference

The efficiency of ink separation in the process of waste paper recycling depends among other things on the ink properties, kind of the substrate, the printing techniques and the printing conditions. Chemical deinking flotation does not efficiently remove water based flexographic inks, UV ink and varnish, ElectroInk and some toners from digital printed paper. The use of enzymes could be an alter...

4th International Research Conference

4th International Research Conference

Annuities provide insurance against outliving one’s wealth. Previous studies have indicated that, for many households, the value of the longevity insurance should outweigh the actuarial unfairness of prices in the voluntary annuity market. Nonetheless, voluntary annuitization rates are extremely low. The proportion of the financial assets of elderly households that is compulsorily annuitized is...