Disaster or catastrophe risk pooling refers to the sharing of risk by entities facing common risk exposure to an individual hazard or set of hazards over a geographical area.Risk pooling members can gain risk diversification benefits such as lower premium costs while facilities based on parametric insurance policies are able to provide timely post-
Terrorism is a concept that defies a simple and straightforward legal definition.Therefore, it is not surprising to find that there is no Comprehensive Convention on Terrorism with a universally accepted definition of what constitutes “terrorism.„ Consequently, States have devised their own definitions of what constitutes terrorism that
Computational study of natural indigo has been carried out to get the optimized structure and electronic properties of two indigo at different pH.It has been found that indigo has the potential to be applied as active material in the dye-sensitized solar cell.Computational calculations are performed using Density Functional Theory (DFT) with Torch
Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with the etiologies of sensorineural hearing loss, such as age-related hearing loss, noise- and ototoxic drug-induced hearing loss, as well as hearing loss due to mitochondrial gene mutation.Mitochondria are the main sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and ROS-induced oxidative stress is involved in coch
The Maastrichtian sediments of Anambra Basin, south western Nigeria was studied for grain characteristics and maturity of the sediments, so that by combining sedimentological characteristics, maturity and its paleoenvironment of deposition of the Ajali sandstone, in order to ascertain the aquifer properties of the groundwater within the study area