The critical question raised by the conference is: ‘What should governments do now about population ageing?’ There is a real prospect that population ageing will bring undesired or potentially catastrophic fi nancial market consequences sometime in the future. That is a possibility raised in several of the papers and it is one that newspaper readers are reminded of a few times every year – at l...

As a direct result of the awe-inspiring changes in LSI technology, an 8-bit microcomputer today has an equivalent of 8000 transistors-which for testing purposes are quite inaccessible, said Tudor Finch of Bell Labs in his introduction to Session 8. Finch, who chaired the session, went on to point out that this level of integration forces one to resort to more indirect techniques-e.g., technique...

The Edgebreaker compression [16, 11] is guaranteed to encode any unlabeled triangulated planar graph of t triangles with at most 1.84t bits. It stores the graph as a CLERS stringa sequence of t symbols from the set {C,L,E,R,S}, each represented by a 1, 2 or 3 bit code. We show here that, in practice, the string can be further compressed to between 0.91t and 1.26t bits using an entropy code. Th...

The increased use of laparoscopy for treatment of reflux esophagitis has been associated with a 1-8% complication rate. Perforation of the esophagus from bougie placement, wrap breakdown or too tight a wrap are some of the complications seen from this surgery. An esophageal dilator system was developed to overcome these problems. Thirty patients had an esophageal dilator system used whereby a 4...

Abstract Deep neural networks are the driving force of recent explosion machine learning applications in everyday life. However, they usually require a lot training data to work well, and act as black-boxes, making predictions without any explanation about them. This paper presents Memory Wrap, module (i.e, set layers) that can be added deep models improve their performance interpretability set...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) self-management intervention in reducing depression and anxiety and in increasing self-perceived recovery among individuals with a serious mental illness. METHODS Participants were recruited from outpatient community mental health settings in six Ohio communities: Canton, Clevelan...

The scroll wraps of a scroll compressor play a very important role in the compressor’s efficiency due to their impact on leakage and leakage irreversibilities. In this work, a short summary of the scroll compressor geometry is presented. Using the geometry of the scroll wraps, an optimal scroll wrap geometry is derived for a given set of constraints on compressor displacement, scroll wrap thick...