Shree Anna: Elixir of Life

Elixir of Life

Human life expectancy has increased >2-fold in the developed world during the past 2 centuries, resulting in a dramatic increase in elderly population. Advanced age is associated with physiological declines that ultimately lead to incapacitation of the individual and increased predisposition to diseases. Among these, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. At first gla...

Elixir of life: In vino veritas.

T he wine grape, Vitis vinifera, is a member of the Vitaceae, a family of vigorous, climbing, woody plants that live in the Northern Hemisphere. The plants are illadapted to tropical climates, and thus never crossed the equator (except those transported by humans, which are cultivated in Argentina, Chile, Australia, South Africa, and other regions in the Southern Hemisphere). The genus Vitis co...

Shree ganeshayan namaha

Tomaso Poggio and Shree Nayar

To recognize an object in an image one must have an internal model of how that object may appear. We describe a method for learning such models from training images. An object is modeled by a probability distribution describing the range of possible variation in the object's appearance. This distribution is organized on two levels. Large variations are handled by partitioning the training image...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...