This explores the applicability of Sen's capability approach to the economic evaluation of health care programmes. An individual's 'capability set' describes his freedom to choose valuable activities and states of being ('functionings'). Direct estimation and valuation of capability sets is not feasible at present. Standard preference-based methods such as willingness to pay are feasible, but p...

This paper reports the error correcting capability of an associative memory model built around the sparse network of cellular automata (CA). Analytical formulation supported by experimental results has demonstrated the capability of CA based sparse network to memorize unbiased patterns while accommodating noise. The desired CA are evolved with an efficient formulation of simulated annealing (SA...

The definition of disability is of interest to disability policymakers and analysts because it has fundamental implications for eligibility for public programs, for the scope of legislation, and for the way disability prevalence is measured. The purpose of this article is to assess how an approach developed in economics to analyze issues related to the standard of living, the so-called capabili...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

Qiuwen Chen Fei Ye Weifeng Li (corresponding author) Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shuangqing Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China Tel.:/Fax: +86 10 6284 9311 E-mail: [email protected] Spatially lumped models may fail to take into account the effects of spatial heterogeneity and local interactions. These properties sometimes are crucial ...

Calcium (Ca)-loaded biochar was produced from rice husks by loading the Ca source with subsequent carbonization and examined evaluation of P adsorption capability about method, availability oyster shells as alternative, effect temperature. Ca-loaded prepared at 650°C had CaCO3 form, that 400°C unconverted Ca(OH)2 less CO2 generation. Moreover, silicon in might have existed an amorphous structur...

Noise removal operation is commonly applied as pre-processing step before subsequent image processing tasks due to the occurrence of noise during acquisition or transmission process. A common problem in imaging systems by using CMOS or CCD sensors is appearance of  the salt and pepper noise. This paper presents Cellular Automata (CA) framework for noise removal of distorted image by the salt an...