The USAID award is for an innovative index-based form of livestock insurance, which reduces the adverse impact of extreme weather on some of the developing world's most vulnerable people.
In 2010/11, an innovative index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) was introduced in Northern Kenya through the joint effort of the International Livestock Research Center (ILRI), Cornell University in USA, a private insurance company in Ethiopia and Swiss Re.
An experimental innovation index is used alongside conventional proxies of innovative performance.
Thus, this work has focused on developing an innovative biological index adapted to the specific context of territories such as Corsica, based on the Odonata group.
Discussing his innovative "harm index", published in a 2010 paper in The Lancet, which ranked a range of drugs based on the damage done to both the individual and society, Professor Nutt said: "That analysis was done on what we'd learned in the past 30 years".
Furthermore, we intend to assess the significance of an innovative physiological index approach (SPINA) in differential diagnosis between NTIS and latent (so-called "sub-clinical") thyrotoxicosis.
Additionally, the significance of an innovative physiological index approach (SPINA) [ 21] is to be evaluated regarding its applicability for differential diagnosis between NTIS and latent thyrotoxicosis.
As an online database of acupuncture RCTs and systematic reviews utilizing an innovative keyword indexing system, AcuTrials® is a valuable resource for the CAM community.
As an innovative tool, weather index agricultural insurance (WIAI) was introduced into China in 2008.
In the present paper, effects of the concentrations of Cu2+ (10 50 g/L), Zn2+ (0–40 g/L) and free H2SO4 (1–5 N) in the electrolyte as well as cathodic current density (50 350 and2) and bath temperature (30 70 °C) have been studied on the macroscopic surface quality of copper deposits defined by their visual morphological characteristics as expressed by an innovative Deposit Morphology Index (DMI).
