Long‐Term Stability in Orthodontics
In: Special care in dentistry: SCD, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 32-32
ISSN: 1754-4505
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In: Special care in dentistry: SCD, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 32-32
ISSN: 1754-4505
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 15, Heft 3-4, S. 255-278
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: Labour research, Band 92, Heft 9, S. 4-6
ISSN: 0023-7000
In: Problems of economic transition, Band 54, Heft 9, S. 79-100
ISSN: 1557-931X
In: Voprosy ėkonomiki: ežemesjačnyj žurnal, Heft 11, S. 150-154
In: The RUSI journal, Band 147, Heft 3, S. 60-62
ISSN: 1744-0378
In: American foreign policy interests, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 175-181
ISSN: 1533-2128
In: American foreign policy interests, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 127-135
ISSN: 1533-2128
In: American foreign policy interests, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 175-181
ISSN: 1533-2128
In: American foreign policy interests: journal of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Inc, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 127-135
ISSN: 1080-3920
World Affairs Online
In: NATO review, Band 45, S. 10-16
ISSN: 0255-3813
Examines NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program between member and non-member countries, and the new Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC). Some emphasis on NATO peacekeeping operations (IFOR and SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In: European actuarial journal, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 147-182
ISSN: 2190-9741
AbstractIn this paper, we devise a stochastic asset–liability management (ALM) model for a life insurance company and analyze its influence on the balance sheet within a low-interest rate environment. In particular, a flexible procedure for the generation of insurers' compressed contract portfolios that respects the given biometric structure is presented, extending the existing literature on stochastic ALM modeling. The introduced balance sheet model is in line with the principles of double-entry bookkeeping as required in accounting. We further focus on the incorporation of new business, i.e. the addition of newly concluded contracts and thus of insured in each period. Efficient simulations are obtained by integrating new policies into existing cohorts according to contract-related criteria. We provide new results on the consistency of the balance sheet equations. In extensive simulation studies for different scenarios regarding the business form of today's life insurers, we utilize these to analyze the long-term behavior and the stability of the components of the balance sheet for different asset–liability approaches. Finally, we investigate the robustness of two prominent investment strategies against crashes in the capital markets, which lead to extreme liquidity shocks and thus threaten the insurer's financial health.
In: Survey review, Band 24, Heft 186, S. 166-171
ISSN: 1752-2706
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Working paper
In: Journal of research on adolescence, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 344-361
ISSN: 1532-7795
This study investigates adolescents' situational passionate experiences, defined as states of strong commitment and intense affect. We examine the extent to which experiencing passion was specific to situations versus individual differences, and explore which activities are likely to elicit adolescents' passion. Using longitudinal experience sampling method (ESM) data from a representative sample of 996 adolescents (54.6% females) in three cohorts (6th, 8th, and 10th grade at baseline), we examine whether adolescents' frequency of passionate experiences remained stable across 2 years. Results of multilevel analyses revealed that situational determinants accounted for 80% of variance in passion, while 20% were due to characteristics of the person that remained stable across 1 week of ESM assessment. An adolescent's percentage of passionate experiences among all observed experiences remained stable across 2 years in rank order and mean level.