On reviewing the contents of this issue of Age and Ageing, I noted that four papers and one book under review included the word 'elderly' in the title, compared with two editorials, one commentary and 10 papers, which used the alternative term 'older'. In a Personal View published in the British Medical Journal (2007: 2007: 316), Marianne Falconer and Desmond O'Neill described the results of a ...

An efficient error concealment algorithm for multi-view video sequences is proposed in this work. First, we develop three concealment modes: temporal bilateral error concealment (TBEC), inter-view bilateral error concealment (IBEC), and multi-hypothesis error concealment (MHEC). TBEC and IBEC, respectively, exploit intra-view and inter-view correlations in multi-view video sequences to reconstr...

Gait has been shown to be an efficient biometric feature for human identification at a distance from a camera. However, performance of gait recognition can be affected by various problems. One of the serious problems is view change which can be caused by change of walking direction and/or change of camera viewpoint. This leads to a consequent difficulty of across-view gait recognition where pro...

the literature associated with iran’s art and architecture in the past four decades has witnessed a handful number of works that have dealt with the re-interpretation of the old tradition of apprenticeship and its connection with the fotovvat movement of the time. in those valuable works, what has duly been decoded most, is the spiritual and mystical aspect of apprenticeship, as a full-scale so...

This short literature review argues that the Resource-Based View (RBV) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. RBV links well to the broader interest in more effective Knowledge Mobilization (KM) in healthcare. The paper outlines and discusses key concepts, texts and authors from the RBV tradition and gives recent example...

hyperdiamonds are covalently bonded fullerenes in crystalline forms, more or less related todiamond, and having a significant amount of sp3 carbon atoms. design of severalhypothetical crystal networks was performed by using our original software programscvnet and nano-studio. the topology of the networks is described in terms of the netparameters and several counting polynomials, calculated by ...

innovation has attracted considerable interest in recent years in improving competitive advantage for both profit and nonprofit organizations. service innovation offers the potential for substantially improving the performance, but performance gains are often obstructed by users’ unwillingness to accept and use available systems. this research aims to use the concept of reasoned action theory t...

Evaluating the investment that healthcare organisations make in quality improvement requires knowledge of impact at multiple levels, including patient care, workforce and other organisational resources. The degree to which these resources help organisations to survive and thrive in the challenging contexts in which healthcare is designed and delivered is unknown. Investigating this question fro...

In the last couple of years, increased attention has been directed at question whether there is such a thing as distinctively political normativity. With few exceptions, this so far only explored by realists. However, discussion about normativity raises methodological and meta-theoretical questions general importance for theory. Although terminology varies, it widely distributed phenomenon with...