LONGEVITY: SELECTION
Positive Selection of Caenorhabditis elegans Mutants With Increased Stress Resistance and Longevity
... identify new elements in these pathways, but brute force screens for long-lived mutants are very laborious. Since long-lived animals are postreproductive, it is necessary to replicate populations of candidate mutant ...
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Direct selection on lifespan in Drosophila Melanogaster to elucidate the mechanisms of longevity
... Given that reactive oxygen species metabolism (GO:0072593) was also enriched, these results suggest that JNK mediated stress resistance may have been altered by the selection regime. ROS metabolism is central to ...
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Molecular adaptation of telomere associated genes in mammals
... influence longevity and considering longevity in a kin-selection framework this places the eusocial naked mole rat with a strong selective pressure for increased longevity in a niche with ...
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Sharing Longevity Risk: Why Governments Should Issue Longevity Bonds
... Cannon and Tonks’ analysis shows that there is some evidence that the money’s worth has fallen since 2002. They discuss a number of reasons for this, including: changes in insurance regulation, changes in industrial ...
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Human leukocyte antigen class I, class II, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha polymorphisms in a healthy elder Mexican Mestizo population
... natural selection of genes favouring longevity ...allele selection or, even, modify completely the structure of previous haplotypes by the genetic admixture process that could account to change ...
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Relationship between longevity and selected production, reproduction and type traits
... available longevity traits (stayability rates at 48, 60, 72 and 84 months of age) and estimated breeding values (EBV) for longevity and functional longevity showed positive correlations with each ...
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The longevity of famous people from Hammurabi to Einstein
... of selection bias, this time related to right ...the longevity of famous people, in particular for cohorts for which the average time between birth dates and publication dates was ...low longevity of ...
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On The Longevity Risk Assessment Under Solvency II
... Given that the goal is for the SCR to reflect the one-year 99,5% percentile of the forthcoming 12 months payments distribution, we have proposed a methodology allowing obtaining experience longevity shocks ...
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Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2013-14 Update
... withdrawals from these products. The products can substantially enhance consumption, by up to 10% for those who have highly unfavorable experiences in the stock market. In “Mortality Modelling With Regime-Switching For ...
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF ALAMBU FRUIT (CUCURBITA MAXIMA DUCH. EX LAMK.) GROWN BY VRIKSHAYURVEDA CULTIVATION METHOD AND CONVENTIONAL CULTIVATION PRACTICE .......
... and longevity. In ancient in modern times. This reservation, processing of seeds before planting, preparation of pits, selection of soil, method of irrigation, nourishment, fertilizers and treatment of ...
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Classification for Longevity Potential: The Use of Novel Biomarkers
... The selection algorithm based on elastic net (29) was imple- mented, in order to deal with possible correlations between the parameters and to select relevant (or important) ...(for selection of predictors) ...
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Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2013-14 Update
... withdrawals from these products. The products can substantially enhance consumption, by up to 10% for those who have highly unfavorable experiences in the stock market. In “Mortality Modelling With Regime-Switching For ...
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Longevity Risk and Capital Markets: The 2015-16 Update
... UK Longevity Market’: (a) a continuous relatively constant decline in male and female mortality rates, (b) some suggestion in recent years that the decline might be slowing down, and (c) a decline in deaths from ...
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Community-Based Care For Home Bound Elderely Persons In Nigeria; A Policy Option
... greater longevity. The greater longevity of the elderly demands care and support for a longer period and also entails high cost of medical and health ...
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Longevity Insurance Annuities
... tematic longevity risk faced by annuity providers only if the annuitants have exactly the same mortality experience over time as the cohort underlying the ...that longevity bonds would provide, industry ...
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Sharing longevity risk: Why governments should issue longevity bonds
... the longevity risk faced by Governments is lower than that faced by insurers because they have the benefit of having a more reliable estimate of current longevity ...modelling longevity improvement ...
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Longevity nutrients resveratrol, wines and grapes
... Mounting evidence suggests that resveratrol mimics the effects of calorie restriction in promoting the longevity. However, the mechanisms of action remain unknown. The only common link could be that both ...
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Analysis of Employee’s Longevity and Academic Development in Forensic Science Laboratory
... simple longevity (years worked in a given organization) and the newly introduced concept of complex longevity (by considering the initiatives made to improve the academic levels of the staff while building ...
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Longevity and Aggregate Savings
... Recall that in order to determine that individuals increase their lifetime expected savings as survival probabilities rise, it was assumed that improve- ments in longevity are tilted towards older ages (Assumption ...
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The golden rule of longevity
... Comparing the social optimum with the outcome of utility maximization by individuals shows that there is no guarantee that economies will invest the socially optimal amount in life-extending health care and indeed this ...
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