BACKGROUND Many older adults manage multiple chronic conditions (i.e. multimorbidity); and many of these chronic conditions share common risk factors such as low socioeconomic status (SES) in adulthood and low SES across the lifecourse. To better capture socioeconomic condition in childhood, recent research in lifecourse epidemiology has broadened the notion of SES to include the experience of ...

Third-party property insurance (TPPI) protects insured drivers who accidentally damage an expensive car from the threat of financial ruin. Perhaps more importantly though, TPPI also protects the victims whose losses might otherwise go uncompensated. Ought responsible drivers therefore take out TPPI? This paper begins by enumerating some reasons for why a rational person might believe that they ...

The concept of fuzzy random variable has been applied in several papers to model the present value of life insurance liabilities. It allows the fuzzy uncertainty of the interest rate and the probabilistic behaviour of mortality to be used throughout the valuation process without any loss of information. Using this framework, and considering a triangular interest rate, this paper develops closed...

Distortions around the naming and the misnaming of human differences are the central foci of Audre Lorde's speech entitled ''Age, Race, Class, Sex: Women Redefining Difference, "which she delivered at Amherst College in Massachusetts on April3, 7 980. Lorde's speech at Amherst exemplifies her deep understanding of what she refers to in an earlier speech as "that language which has been made to ...

We report two potential liabilities of the homogeneous enzyme immunoassay for the determination of serum gentamicin. One is a considerable loss of precision and accuracy at the ends of the calibration curve, and the other is an apparent loss of gentamicin with storage at -60 degrees C.