Ikegami reviews the implementation of mandatory long-term care insurance systems in Germany and Japan, which are organized as pay-as-you-go systems. I propose to go one step further and implement a multi-pillar, mandatory and voluntary long-term care financing system, which combines pay-as-you-go with capital-funded elements. The proposal is based on the observation tha...

legg-calvé-perthes disease (lcpd) is an idiopathic osteonecrosis of the femoral head with variable complications and resultant deformity of the femoral head and osteoarthritis. suggested risk factors are acetabular retroversion, obesity, latitude, hyperactivity, and coagulopathy. the most commonly applied classification is based on radiolucency in the lateral pillar of the femoral head, which i...

A fluorescent supramolecular polymer was efficiently constructed by pillar[5]arene-based host-guest molecular recognition and zinc ion coordination.

DRLÍK MARTIN, PILKOVÁ ANNA, MUNK MICHAL, ŠVEC PETER: Modelling of domestic and foreign visitors’ behaviour at commercial bank website during the recent fi nancial crisis. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 7, pp. 2065–2070 The paper focuses on modelling of commercial bank website visitors’ behaviour. The authors analyse domestic and foreign ma...

Three-dimensional object detection plays a vital role in the field of environment perception autonomous driving, and its results are crucial for subsequent processes. Pillar-based 3D is method to detect objects by dividing point cloud data into pillars extracting features from each pillar. However, current pillar-based object-detection methods suffer problems such as “under-segmentation” false ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common symptom of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and a frequent side-effect of peginterferon/ribavirin (PR) therapy for HCV. This study evaluated the impact of adding the oral HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor simeprevir to PR on patient-reported fatigue and health status among patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection enrolled in the Phase IIb PILLAR and ASP...

Self-perfection by liquefaction (SPEL) was used to fabricate nanoimprint molds with an array of sub-25 nm diameter pillars (200 nm period), resulting in nearly perfect cylindrical shape and smooth sidewalls. SPEL turned an array of irregularly shaped Cr polygons into an array of nearly perfect circular dots with small diameter. The Cr dot arrays were then transferred to SiO(2) or Si pillar arra...

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