The paper sets out some requirements for the user interfaces of technologies that are to be used in the home. Each theme is illustrated with some of the current research being carried out at CUHTec. Interfaces for domestic technologies should be: Simple we are willing to expend only slight cognitive resources in many domestic contexts (this theme is illustrated by the extreme example of assisti...

to ovariectomized (OVX) subjects has been shown in many studies to be associated with more rapid acquisition of memory tasks (Wallace et al., 2006). It has also been suggested that estrogen replacement therapy may help to reduce the risk and severity of Alzheimer disease in postmenopausal women (Gibbs, 2000; Savonenko and Markowska, 2003). The effects of estrogen on learning and memory may be d...

Pseudo-random numbers are often required for simulations performed on parallel computers. The requirements for parallel random number generators are more stringent than those for sequential random number generators. As well as passing the usual sequential tests on each processor, a parallel random number generator must give different, independent sequences on each processor. We consider the req...

Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics (SORA), Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital B...

The skin resistance of ten subjects was recorded every 20 seconds for four 20-minute periods of resting, reading, listening to music, or practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. In eight out of the ten cases the highest single value of skin resistance occurred during the period of meditation. The increase in skin resistance was significantly greater during Transcendental Meditation t...

We provide a unified directed search framework with general production and matching specifications that encompasses most of the existing literature. We prove the existence of subgame perfect Nash equilibria in pure firm strategies in a finite version of the model. We use this result to derive a more complete characterization of the equilibrium set for the finite economy and to extend convergenc...

Wallace attempts to analyse central bank interest rate control in a cashless, ArrowDebreu economy. The model incorporates only the unit of account function of money and exhibits a version of the classical dichotomy in which arbitrary accounting prices are independent of the equilibrium real relative price vector. A model with these properties is incapable of providing a theory of the price leve...

Suppose G is a subgroup of the reduced abelian p-group A. The following two dual results are proved: (∗) If A/G is countable and G is an almost totally projective group, then A is an almost totally projective group. (∗∗) If G is countable and nice in A such that A/G is an almost totally projective group, then A is an almost totally projective group. These results somewhat strengthen theorems du...

The Workshop on Biobanking Informatics in NSW 2013 (WBIN13) was held on Friday, 10 May 2013 at The Wallace Wurth Building in the University of New South Wales. This report summarises the keynotes, presentations and discussions in WBIN13 which discusses current research in the field of Biobanking Informatics in Australia and internationally Keywords—Biobanking, Informatics, SOP, integration,

We present a novel evolutionary computing framework, Wallace, that achieves ease-of-use and genericity, via a domainspecific language, and simultaneously achieves efficiency via meta-programming, as well as supporting parallelism. Wallace also includes a novel multiple representation model of individual development, realised using meta-programming. We describe the Wallace framework, illustratin...