The 4th South African Child Health Priorities Conference

Setting Priorities in Child Health Research Investments for South Africa

Research can play a critical role in the response to global health challenges. But when resources are limited, guidelines are needed to assist decisions on defi ning the priorities for health research investments. An early attempt at the global level to defi ne health research priorities was made through the Commission on Health Research for Development in 1990 [1]. A number of subsequent initi...

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...

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...