Telemetry‐Based Mortality Estimates of Juvenile Spot in Two North Carolina Estuarine Creeks

Mortality of employees of two cotton mills in North Carolina.

Carl Ortmeyer, Ph.D. A lthough respiratory morbidity associated with exposure to cotton dust in the primary textile industry has been extensively studied and documented, relatively little research has been directed toward assessment of morbidity and mortality of former cotton textile workers. There are frequent anecdotal references to early retirement and death in the early literature on cotton...

Shoreline change within the albemarle-Pamlico eStuarine SyStem, north carolina

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, ...

Enhanced surveillance of maternal mortality in North Carolina.

In 1916, there were 774 pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births in North Carolina; by 1999 this ratio had declined to 12.3 deaths/100,000 live births (See Figure 1). Over the same time span, the annual number of pregnancy-related deaths decreased from 593 to 14. The decline in pregnancy-related deaths (based on death certificate records) is attributed to improved obstetrical care and p...

Cervical cancer in North Carolina. Incidence, mortality and risk factors.

11 T HE DECLINE IN CERVICAL CANCER incidence and mortality seen over the past several decades 1 is perhaps one of the success stories of screening and early detection in the field of cancer control. The American Cancer Society estimates that in the United States in 2001 there were 12,900 cases of invasive cervical cancer and 4,400 deaths, representing only 2.0% of incident cancers in women and ...