BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) is literally and figuratively turning a new page in its history today. The company is renewing its bold promise as it unveils a new logo, and a new themeline, "Treated Fairly." "'Treated Fairly' is the most important part of our new...
Yes, but what about the economy? There is so much confusion about the state of the banking industry that it is hard to stand back and recognise that finance only exists as a servant to the wider economy. Obviously a lot of damage has been done to the various national...
This qualitative case study illustrates and compares the metacognitive strategies that a grade-3 female student used while reading narrative and informational texts. Data were collected from interviews, observations, and videotaping of the participant's narrative and informational text oral reading sessions and examined using thematic analysis. Findings showed that she used...
This article reports on the experiences and perceptions of K-12 teachers as they engaged in a participatory action research PAR project, Science Across the Curriculum. Although the experiences and professional learning of two of the project participants are highlighted, the challenges that all participants experienced as they conceptualized and implemented...
Thomas Legier, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface, eds., Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 338 pp.; hardcover $60, paperback $24.95. Promoting Democracy in the Americas helps fill the gap in our knowledge of how international and transnational...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAII) announced today that its subsidiary, AAII - Birmingham has won its case filed on June 26, 2008 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the United States Air Force and The Boeing Company which challenged the Air Force's selection of...
A new law went into effect today requiringall entities doing business in Nevada to protect customer information withencryption if stored on or transmitted using a computer. Is My Business Affected By This New Law? The new law impacts how accountants, lawyers, doctors, financialconsultants, insurance and real estate agents -- and...
Analysis In the eternal battle between fear and greed that drives the financial markets, it is not difficult to see who is winning. But why the fear? Why, when governments are almost falling over themselves to douse the fire in the markets with the soothing balm...
Revenue Science, the leading provider oftargeted advertising solutions for digital media, today announced thelaunch of its new Behavioral Targeting Solution for Advertisers, which isspecifically designed to meet the explicit needs of advertisers andagencies. This highly advanced technology empowers advertisers to gaininsight into their customers and immediately act on that data,...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating FSR of B+ Good and issuer credit rating of "bbb-" of CEM Insurance Company CEM (Deer Park, IL). The revised outlook reflects that CEM's recent operating results have...
SINGAPORE AFP — The glamorous and money-fuelled world of Formula One is not immune to the global financial crisis but it is adapting to the tougher times, leading figures in the sport say. Many backers of the world's richest sport are banks and other big conglomerates who have...
The ultra-violent novel about 1980s decadence is to take its place alongside 'The Lion King' on Broadway With his shockingly gory novel American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis examined the decadence and greed of Wall Street workers during the Ronald Reagan era through the eyes of a...
News in brief FOOD ALERT All imports of children's food from China have been banned across Europe from today. The move by the European Commission comes amid growing concern over contaminated milk powder, which has already caused infant deaths in China and affected thousands more children....
Missouri's state and federal courts have a patchwork of rules regarding attorneys' ability to contact jurors after a trial, as a case in Kansas City's federal court illustrates. But the bottom line, attorneys and legal experts say, is that while contacting jurors can yield important information, be...
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- "The RTC Resolution Trust Corporation was created in 1989 by Congress as a federal agency to close failed Savings and Loan Associations and sell their assets at the highest value. Proceeds from sales were used, along with Congressional appropriations to pay all...
A conversation with a religious leader is not protected from being revealed in court unless it occurred in private and the leader was acting as a spiritual adviser, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled. A unanimous three-judge panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled on August...
Recent empirical studies on the value of time and reliability reveal that travel time variability plays an important role on travelers' route choice decision process. It can be considered as a risk to travelers making a trip. Therefore, travelers are not only interested in saving their travel...
This paper proposes a new travel time reliability-based traffic assignment model to investigate the rain effects on risk-taking behaviours of different road users in networks with day-to-day demand fluctuations and variations in travel time. A generalized link travel time function is used to capture the rain effects...
Uncertainty of traffic network operations has been a subject of lively debate in the last decade. However, little effort has been put in developing control frameworks that are not only aimed at improving the average performance of the system, but also at improving the system robustness and...
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