In this paper we address the problem of crosstalk reduction for autostereoscopic displays. Crosstalk refers to the perception of one or more unwanted views in addition to the desired one. Specifically, the proposed approach consists of three different stages: a crosstalk measurement stage, where the crosstalk is modeled, a filter design stage, based on the results obtained out of the measuremen...

This paper proposes a model of mutual acceptance between a patient, his/her family members, and medical staff by sharing information through indirect biofeedback. In Japan, an upcoming socalled super-aging society, it has become a serious problem how to achieve effective and high-quality care support for aged persons. Here we focus on a psychological aspect of this problem and suggest a possibl...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential utility of asking parents about health care utilization as a means of identifying individuals at risk for psychosocial problems. METHOD Parents of 366 children ages 2 to 16 completed questionnaires about their own, their child's, and their family's psychosocial functioning and health care utilization. RESULTS Children and parents with high health care ...

This feature presents highlights from statistics on health care utilization, prices, expenses, employment, and work hours, as well as on national economic activity, with brief analysis of these economic indicators. These statistics provide an early indication of changes occurring in the health care sector and within the general economy. Although most statistics include data for the second quart...

We present a novel Metropolis-Hastings method for large datasets that uses small expected-size minibatches of data. Previous work on reducing the cost of MetropolisHastings tests yield variable data consumed per sample, with only constant factor reductions versus using the full dataset for each sample. Here we present a method that can be tuned to provide arbitrarily small batch sizes, by adjus...

While there are many excellent acceptance testing tools and frameworks available today, this paper presents an alternative approach, involving generating code from tests specified in a declarative tabular format within Excel spreadsheets. While this is a general approach, it is most applicable to difficultto-test situations. Two such situations are presented: one involving complex fixture setup...

cadre of referees begin their second, and final, three-year term of service. During our first term, 2008 to 2011, we brought you five or six articles and an equal number of book reviews every other month. We hope you as readers found them enlightening on a wide variety of academic library topics. We culled the many manuscripts we received for consideration to select, through the peer review pro...

Our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Emerging Markets in December 2000 generated 64 submissions. Of these papers, we selected seven papers, making the acceptance rate for this Special Issue in the same class as the very top finance journals. The selection procedure was as objective as possible. First, each submission was double-blind reviewed by two referees. The referees scored each pape...

The study aims to investigate the correlations that exist among family relationships and mental health status among adolescents. This study was carried out on 100 randomly sampled adolescents of Dibrugarh, Assam. The sample comprised of a mixed group of students from high and low socio-economic status. It was hypothesized that 1) mental health status in adolescents is positively related to pare...