ABSTRACT The study analyzes the entrepreneurial attributes of Venezuelan migrants settled in Gramalote (Norte de Santander Department, Colombia) that explain perception and ability to seize opportunities (as a dependent variable) sociodemographic contextual characteristics (independent variables). research adopted positivist paradigm quantitative approach obtain data from survey conducted with ...

This paper proposes a model for the claim occurrence, reporting, and handling process of insurance companies. It is assumed that insurance claims occur according to a Markovian arrival process. An incurred claim goes through some stages of a claim reporting and handling process, such as Incurred But Not Reported (IBNR), Reported But Not Settled (RBNS) and Settled (S). We derive formulas for the...

Over the past few years, many pharmaceutical manufacturers have settled claims brought by the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) alleging that the drug companies engaged in illegal, off-label product promotion. Between 2003 and 2007, 11 investigations involving off-label promotion in the US were settled. Six of those investigations settled in 2007 alone. In addition, Pfizer Inc. recently announce...

this study deals with bioleaching of the low grade uranium ore of saghand mine in iran using a mixed culture of mesophilic bacteria (acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and leptospirillum ferrooxidans). experiments were carried out in shaking flask examining the effect of temperature, initial ferrous ion concentration, pulp density and particle size. variations of ph, ...

Abstract We prove the following asymptotic behavior for solutions to the generalized Becker-Döring system for general initial data: under a detailed balance assumption and in situations where density is conserved in time, there is a critical density ρs such that solutions with an initial density ρ0 ≤ ρs converge strongly to the equilibrium with density ρ0, and solutions with initial density ρ0 ...

In this report, we introduce our initial vision of the Corporate Semantic Web as the next step in the broad field of Semantic Web research. We identify requirements of the corporate environment and gaps between current approaches to tackle problems facing ontology engineering, semantic collaboration, and semantic search. Each of these pillars will yield innovative methods and tools during the p...