Taiwanese Inventor Develops Lamp Remaining Lifetime Detecting Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 22, 2007 ;     222 words ......a projector which can detect the remaining lifetime of its light source lamp. According...relates to a "method for detecting the remaining lifetime of light source lamp. In the method...relational table to calculate the remaining lifetime of the lamp." The inventor was issued...

"Mortality of the extreme aged in the United States in the 1990s, based on...

North American Actuarial Journal;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......know the standard deviation of the remaining lifetime also. (Strictly, even this is not...life-time along with expectation of remaining lifetime. Consequently, a doctor cannot start...the standard deviation [sigma] of remaining lifetime in the literature (an exception is...

Integrating Damage State Awareness and Mechanism-Based Prediction

JOM;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......stresses or intensity of usage, and the corresponding remaining lifetime. A recent example of the application of prognosis methods...prediction of the rate of degradation of capability and remaining lifetime of the gear. The research clearly demonstrated the ability...

Radar reflectivity-derived thunderstorm parameters applied to storm...

Weather and Forecasting;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......characteristics to the observed remaining lifetime show that these storm...predictors for storm remaining lifetime. 1. Introduction In the...as predictors of storm remaining lifetime. We investigated single...

The Present Value of Lost Financial Support Due to Wrongful Death

Journal of Legal Economics;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......deceased's expected but-for-death remaining lifetime labor-related earnings less his or...trying to calculate the but-for-death remaining lifetime "accumulations" in the decedent's...deceased's expected but-for-death remaining lifetime labor-related earnings less his or...

Lifetime Estimates for Alzheimer's and Dementia

OT Practice;  April 28, 2008 ;     100 words ......from the Framingham Heart Study, women who reach the age of 55 have a 17% risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in their remaining lifetime; for men the risk is 9%. The risk for developing dementia is greater, at 21% for women after 55 years of age, and 14...

Waste Management - Chmn. & CEO Interview

CNBC/Dow Jones Business Video;  February 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......happen to be in very good spots. HAINES: And what is the estimated remaining lifetime of these facilities? MYERS: Well, over 30 years, the estimated remaining lifetime, and then permitted capacity is over 20 years. So puts the company...

To predict your odds of future heart disease, look back in time.(Brief...

Heart Advisor;  April 1, 2006 ;     207 words ......to new research. The study found that men with an optimal risk profile for cardiovascular disease (CVD) at age 50 had a remaining lifetime risk of just 5.2 percent. For women with pristine medical records at 50, the lifetime risk was still modest, 8.2 percent...

Canadian Inventors Develop Bulk Certificate Lifetime Allocation Systems

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 19, 2008 ;     264 words ......the life span of the certificate is deducted from the block of unallocated time. If the user revokes a certificate, the remaining lifetime of the revoked certificate is added back to the block of unallocated time. This allows certificates to be revoked without...

GOV. GRANHOLM PROCLAIMS MAY 2006 AS OSTEOPOROSIS AWARENESS AND PREVENTION...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 1, 2006 ;     359 words ......Whereas, One in two women and one in eight men over the age of fifty will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her/his remaining lifetime; and, Whereas, Over 1.5 million Michigan residents over the age of fifty were estimated to have osteoporosis or low bone...

Ten million American baby boomers likely to develop Alzheimer's disease

Xinhua News Agency;  March 18, 2008 ;     243 words ......the association estimates that 10 millions of these baby boomers can expect to suffer from Alzheimer's disease in their remaining lifetime. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Difficulty in remembering...

Bitchin' Where's the Compassion?

Philadelphia Weekly;  September 25, 2002 ;     427 words ...Lynne Abraham has decided Calvin Howell's remaining lifetime of anguish is not punishment enough. His deep despondency, so evident each time his face is glimpsed on TV, just won't do. He must...

What is a retirement plan?(Do only annuities have right to be labeled...

National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  August 21, 1995 ;     616 words ......right to carry the label retirement plan, since theoretically they are designed to pay out installments over a person's remaining lifetime, presumably at retirement. However, in practice such is not the case. The primary thrust in marketing deferred annuities...

Engineers see rust in a new light

InTech;  February 1, 2000 ;     480 words ......Pa.-Inspectors normally use the amount of rust on steel reinforcing bars in concrete as one indication of a structure's remaining lifetime, but Pennsylvania State University engineers say this could lead to miscalculations about a structure's safety. Dr. Kalliopi...

Free vaccinations and more at Kids Health Fair

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  August 16, 2007 ;     500 words ...Connecting caring volunteers and public resources averted a potential crisis for Inland Valley children. The 16th annual Inland Valley Kids Health Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday...