Life of Dr. Shigeyasu TOKUNAGA

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Analysis of Syntactic Structure of Japanese Compound Nouns Tokunaga

The life and work of Dr. Robert Bittman (1942-2014).

-With the passing of Dr. Robert Bittman on the 1 Oct 2014 from cancer, the lipid field lost its most distinguished lipid chemist researcher. Herein, we provide a brief account of Dr. Robert Bittman’s research achievements over a 50 year career. Dr. Robert Bittman’s lasting legacies to the fields of lipid membrane biophysics, cholesterol trafficking and cellular functions of phospholipids and sp...

Double life of medical journals: Dr Paper and Mr Web.

journals of today are indeed split between two forms of existence: paper and electronic. Although many are foreseeing the end of the paper journals (1,2), we believe that the future of scientific journals will see the evolution of paper and electronic form as two complementary systems of communication in science and medicine. Freely available digital information and the speed of searching the g...