This is Aimee Mullins, who lost her lower limbs as a young child, and Hugh Herr, who's a professor at MIT who lost his limbs in a climbing accident.

Like a typical vertebrate the human has two pairs of limbs.

There are 370 soldiers that have come back from Iraq that have lost limbs.

An almost extinct animal from Xochimilco, Mexico called an axolotl that can re generate its limbs.

Insects in this family are commonly called stilt legged flies, after their characteristically long legs.

Here you can't find anybody to compare it with, because we're the only animal that walks upright on two legs.

And I knew that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushes away from your extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs.

Credit default swaps and counterparty risk

They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

The aardvark has powerful limbs and sharp claws so it can burrow into earth at high speed.

Mature C. mydas front appendages have only a single claw (as opposed to the hawksbill's two), although a second claw is sometimes prominent in young specimens.

Type of risk

A few months after our marriage, I sat one night on the floor of my father in law s living room, the worn but tidy rug rough under my limbs.

Large value payments payments , generally of very large amounts , which are mainly exchanged between banks or between participants in the financial markets and usually require urgent and timely settlement .

Its limbs were paddle shaped for swimming, although, unlike modern sea turtles, they still had clear toes, and it also had a short tail.

Risk

Risk

At the end of 2001 , the ECB had a reserve portfolio totalling Euros 46.8 billion , which comprised foreign currency reserves , gold and special drawing rights ( SDRs ) . The foreign currency reserves are denominated in US dollars and Japanese yen and are managed on behalf of the ECB by the NCBs .

Official Journal of the European Union ( Risk capital funds )

We again personalized the risks.

This is the interpretation of it. As you can see, I carry a 32 percent risk of prostate cancer, 22 percent risk of psoriasis and a 14 percent risk of Alzheimer's disease.

it captures event risk .

I ran a risk of advising her.

This reserve portfolio is first and foremost an intervention portfolio .

( Venture capital mutual funds )

In fact, it carried risk of injury.

Financial markets in the advanced economies provide risk capital through different sets of arrangements venture funds, public trading of shares, private equity, etc.

This house runs the risk of collapsing.

He's in danger of being evicted.

Tom is a venture capitalist.

What are the risk factors?

Indeed, the less public risk sharing we want, the more private risk sharing we need.

The main measures of market risk observed are modified duration and Value at Risk .

Assessment of risk

Let's take that chance.

Are there any risks?

Assessing the risk for carbon leakage

In addition , the riskmeasurement model shall capture nonlinearities for options and other products as well as correlation risk and basis risk .

Reverse transaction an operation whereby the national central bank buys or sells assets under a repurchase agreement or conducts credit operations against collateral . RTGS ( real time gross settlement ) system a settlement system in which processing and settlement take place on an order by order basis ( without netting ) in real time ( continuously ) .

The risk of secession is very real.

and , fourth , limits for credit risk exposures .

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China s Hidden Debt Risk

I don't want to risk losing it.

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