Sequencing risk for baby boomers: Prosperity or poverty

The number of baby boomers moving into retirement is growing and yet the level of mandated superannuation available to provide sufficient retirement funding for this group is relatively low. This unique group is more sensitive to negative cyclical events and to the impact of sequencing risk through their superannuation as part of their move to retirement. Within the context of Australian superannuation, Industry superannuation accounts represent 17 per cent of the over two trillion dollar superannuation asset base, with the majority of these fund members automatically investing in high-risk default investment strategies as part of their MySuper contribution arrangement. This paper investigates the implications of sequencing risk for baby boomers, as typical members in these funds, how financial market volatility directly impacts on retirement outcomes and shows that investment results are sensitive in the retirement-drawdown phase

Collective narcissism moderates the effect of in-group image threat on intergroup hostility

WOS:000319485100005 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science)Results of 4 experiments demonstrated that under in-group image threat collective narcissism predicts retaliatory intergroup hostility. Under in-group criticism (vs. praise) collective narcissists expressed intention to harm the offending out-group but not other, nonoffending out-groups. This effect was specific to collective narcissism and was replicated in studies that accounted for the overlap between collective narcissism and individual narcissism, in-group positivity (in-group identification, blind and constructive patriotism), social dominance orientation, and right wing authoritarianism. The link between collective narcissism and retaliatory intergroup hostility under in-group image threat was found in the context of national identity and international relations and in the context of a social identity defined by university affiliation. Study 4 demonstrated that the relationship between collective narcissism and intergroup hostility was mediated by the perception of in-group criticism as personally threatening. The results advance our understanding of the mechanism driving the link between collective narcissism and intergroup hostility. They indicate that threatened egotism theory can be extended into the intergroup domain

Standardizing definitions of hematopoietic recovery, graft rejection, graft failure, poor graft function, and donor chimerism in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: A report on behalf of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is potentially curative for certain hematologic malignancies and nonmalignant diseases. The field of allo-HCT has witnessed significant advances, including broadening indications for transplantation, availability of alternative donor sources, less toxic preparative regimens, new cell manipulation techniques, and novel GVHD prevention methods, all of which have expanded the applicability of the procedure. These advances have led to clinical practice conundrums when applying traditional definitions of hematopoietic recovery, graft rejection, graft failure, poor graft function, and donor chimerism, because these may vary based on donor type, cell source, cell dose, primary disease, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis, and conditioning intensity, among other variables. To address these contemporary challenges, we surveyed a panel of allo-HCT experts in an attempt to standardize these definitions. We analyzed survey responses from adult and pediatric transplantation physicians separately. Consensus was achieved for definitions of neutrophil and platelet recovery, graft rejection, graft failure, poor graft function, and donor chimerism, but not for delayed engraftment. Here we highlight the complexities associated with the management of mixed donor chimerism in malignant and nonmalignant hematologic diseases, which remains an area for future research. We recognize that there are multiple other specific, and at times complex, clinical scenarios for which clinical management must be individualized

Roughness of dichotomy for the interconnected system of operator-differential equations

The paper is devoted to obtaining conditions for the roughness of dichotomy in the Banach spaces. Deep analysis of the well known papers was considered. The main results also works for the case of unbounded operators

Performance Analysis of a Parallel Discrete Model for the Simulation of Laser Dynamics

This paper presents an analysis on the performance of a parallel implementation of a discrete model of laser dynamics, which is based on cellular automata. The performance of a 2D parallel version of the model is studied as a rst step to test the feasibility of a parallel 3D version, which is needed to simulate speci c laser systems. The 3D version will have to run on a parallel computer due to its runtime and memory requirements. The model has been implemented on a Beowulf Cluster using the message passing paradigm. The parallel implementation is found to exhibit a good speedup, allowing us to run realistic simulations of laser systems on clusters of workstations, which could not be afforded on an individual machine due to the extensive runtime and memory size needed.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIC2002-04498-C05-0

PROSPECT OF USING BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR CORRECTION OF LIVER FAILURE (Review of literature)

The review presents and discusses modern conceptions about causes of development, existing ways of prevention and correction of liver failure. Unsatisfactory effectiveness of traditional infusion and medicinal therapy, as well as low availability of extracorporal detoxification and liver transplantation methods generates a need for search of brand new patogeneticaly substantiated methods of treatment of liver failure. The data about pathogenesis of liver failure and about sanogenesis and regeneration processes are presented. Hepatocite growth factor plays leading role in that processes, most important effects of present cytokine are considered. Next part of the article describes principles, mechanism of action and results of experimental use of cell therapy method. This method has shown effectiveness in animal models and it is perspective for further improvement, but not allowed for clinical use. That's why authors consider that the most perspective solution is creation of new drug, containing regulatory peptides of liver