The purpose of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of cohabitation and functional impairments among older people. Our research has three main aims. Firstly, we want to analyse the effects of cohabitation on disability. Secondly, we want to study time trends in disability and cohabitation jointly to explore relationships between the two. Thirdly, we examine socioeconomic differences -as captur...

Alice wants to communicate securely to Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper Eve. There are two resources available to facilitate this. First, Alice, Bob (and Eve) have access to dependent source observations. Secondly, there is a noisy broadcast channel from Alice to Bob and Eve. Under this general source and channel setup, we are interested in three classes of problems. First, what is the se...

Irradiation of food raw materials has a double effect. Firstly, actually for which the irradiation is carried out, destruction of microorganisms is provided to increase the shelf life of products. Secondly, radiation has a danger from the point of view of the effect on the raw materials and products based on it, causing chemical transformations of constituent components by the mechanism of radi...

Enlargement of Lie super algebra B(0, 1) was given firstly. Then nonlinear super integrable couplings of the super classical Boussinesq hierarchy based upon this enlarged matrix Lie super algebra were constructed secondly. And its super Hamiltonian structures were established by using super trace identity thirdly. As its reduction, special integrable couplings of classical Boussinesq hierarchy ...

This article attempts to make clear how listening comprehension strategies (LCSs) influence listening performance in simultaneous typing. The article firstly reviewed the background of the study, secondly introduced a study into LCSs from the aspect of the research procedure, and finally gave some suggestions based on the results and analysis of study.

The principle known as 'free indexation' plays an important role in the determination of the refer-ential properties of noun phrases in the principle-and-parameters language framework. First, by investigating the combinatorics of free indexation, we show that the problem of enumerating all possible indexings requires exponential time. Secondly, we exhibit a provably optimal free indexation algo...

In this paper we present a new workflow allowing the creation of 3D characters in an automated way that does not require the expertise of an animator. This workflow is based of the acquisition of real human data captured by 3D body scanners, which is them processed to generate firstly animatable body meshes, secondly skinned body meshes and finally textured 3D garments.

This scenario takes the situation of a famous scientist wishing to set a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) and put the emphasis on the bootstap (i.e. the really first steps). An interesting comparison is to analyse this scenario firstly in a context using traditional techniques (system oriented architecture and Web services), then secondly using a service oriented architecture offered by the G...

This paper addresses two coding schemes which can handle emerging errors with crisscross patterns. First, a code with maximum rank distance, so-called Rank-Codes, is described and a modified Berlekamp-Massey algorithm is provided. Secondly, a Permutation Code based coding scheme for crisscross error patterns is presented. The influence of different types of noise are also discussed.