t Wilkie's stochastic investment model and its variants have been increasingly applied by actuaries around the world to actuarial modeling and simulation. This paper performs time series outlier analysis on retail price inflation, which is the driving force of Wilkie's composite model. The data come from four developed countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The...

work is devoted to the study of electric drive overhead cranes and creation a new reliable system multi-motor with coordinated rotation speeds motors movement mechanisms cranes. The electromechanical travel an crane complex multi-mass elastically connected controlled by drive, which subject large number force factors. main trends in development are increase reliability its operation range speed...

This paper reassesses the burden of the current U.S. international tax regime and reconsiders well-known welfare benchmarks used to guide international tax reform. Reinventing corporate tax policy requires that international considerations be placed front and center in the debate on how to tax corporate income. A simple framework for assessing current rules suggests a U.S. tax burden on foreign...

The voltage of the stator is usually controlled with thyristors. To ensure stable control of the load, the control system requires information about the motor speed. Up to now, tachometers or encoders have been used to measure the motor speed, however, tachometers, with their associated equipment, tend to be mechanically sensitive and are often difficult to install, due to space constraints. Th...

We describe a heuristic algorithm for scheduling the movement of multiple factory cranes mounted on a common track. The cranes must complete a sequence of tasks at locations along the track without crossing paths, while adhering as closely as possible to a factory production schedule. The algorithm creates a decision tree of possible states of the crane system, which evolves over time as tasks ...

financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. the lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

The design, dynamic modelling, and workspace are presented in this paper concerning cooperative cable parallel manipulators for multiple mobile cranes (CPMMCs). The CPMMCs can handle complex tasks that are more difficult or even impossible for a single mobile crane. Kinematics and dynamics of the CPMMCs are studied on the basis of geometric methodology and dʹAlembert’s pr...

Traditional container terminals usually use a horizontal yard layout, while automated vertical layout. The two types of layout perform differently in the vehicle travel routes, handling interface points vehicles and cranes, cranes routes. These differences result different indicators between such as utilization, average crane distance, overall terminal efficiency etc. This paper uses an analyti...

This presentation reports of a case of disseminated visceral coccidiosis (DVC) in a 4-month old captive white-naped crane (Grus vipio) in The Netherlands. Based on this case a review is presented describing macroscopic and histopathologic changes, therapeutic possibilities It also presents experimental derived information about the cycle of Eimeria gruis and E. reichenowi, as well as molecular ...