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...

Abstract The article covers experimental research on the forming of products made 7075 aluminum alloy. This alloy grade is characterized by high strength, but due to its low formability in T6 temper, use stamping processes complex structural elements limited. authors have manufactured a U-shaped element at an elevated temperature and determined optimal parameters process. Conventional heating s...

Perforated silicon structures backfilled with either B or LiF are presently under construction as high efficiency thermal-neutron detectors. Although many perforated structures are possible, there are three fundamental designs that are studied in the present work, namely (a) cylindrical perforations where holes are filled with neutron reactive material, (b) pillar configurations where semicondu...

Abstract. Digital human modeling and simulation plays an important role in product design, prototyping, and manufacturing: it reduces the number of design iterations and increases the safety and design quality of products. Posture prediction is one of the key capabilities. It is especially useful in the design of vehicle interiors for checking the reachability of buttons and determining comfort...