Special-rate life annuities are annuity products whose single premium is based on a mortality assumption driven (at least to some extent) by the health status of applicant. The ascertained via an appropriate underwriting step (which explains alternative expression “underwritten annuities”). Better rates then applied in presence poor conditions. worse conditions, smaller modal age at death (as w...

the dependence of iran's economy to oil revenues and affecting the political and economic issues on income have caused the vulnerability of the economy. one way to meet these challenges is expanding such products, on the one hand improving the domestic economy and on the other hand increasing the exports. among the agricultural products, medicinal plants have a special role in the domestic...

We present a nonlinear, geometrically exact, and thermodynamically consistent framework for modeling special Cosserat rods with evolving natural configurations. In contrast to the common usage of point-wise Clausius–Duhem inequality embody Second Law Thermodynamics, we enforce strictly weaker form that rate total entropy production is non-decreasing. The constitutive relations between state var...

The purpose of this manuscript is to derive new convergence results for several subgradient methods for minimizing nonsmooth convex functions with Hölderian growth. The growth condition is satisfied in many applications and includes functions with quadratic growth and functions with weakly sharp minima as special cases. To this end there are four main contributions. First, for a constant and su...