AIM This paper is a report of a study to explicate the phenomenon of ginger compresses for people with osteoarthritis. BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis is claimed to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability in Western society. Management ideally combines non-pharmacological strategies, including complementary therapies and pain-relieving medication. Ginger has been applied externa...

We consider a multiterminal remote source coding problem in which a source sequence is estimated from the output of multiple source encoders, each having access only to a noisy observation of the source realization. Each remote encoder compresses its noisy observation sequence so as to minimize a local distortion measure which depends only on the distribution of its observed sequence, and is ot...