Life insurers are exposed to deflation risk: falling prices could lead to insufficient investment returns, and inflation-indexed protections could make insurers vulnerable to deflation. In this spirit, this paper proposes a market-based methodology for measuring deflation risk based on a discrete framework: the latter accounts for the real interest rate, the inflation index level, its condition...

Aggressive early deflation [1] has proven to significantly enhance the convergence of the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix. It is shown that this deflation strategy is equivalent to extracting converged Ritz vectors from certain Krylov subspaces. As a special case, the single-shift QR algorithm enhanced with aggressive early deflation corresponds to a Krylov s...

I will review recent developments in matrix deflation methods, by Ronald Morgan/Walter Wilcox, Andreas Stathopoulos/Konstantinos Orginos, and Martin Lüscher, with application to lattice QCD fermion inversion. I will begin with a short review of deflation-related work in the field. The Morgan/Wilcox algorithms using GMRES and BiCGStab for deflation will be described. Typical results for quenched...

In this paper oscillometric method is used to develop an adaptive non-invasive blood pressure measurement system. To overcome the drawback of conventional oscillometric method an algorithm is developed. During the time of deflation and inflation process the step size of pressure pumped and released using pump and valve respectively is varied adaptively by continuously monitoring the feedback wh...

D eflation, the opposite of inflation, is a situation of falling general prices. It should not be confused with disinflation, which refers to a declining inflation rate that nevertheless remains positive. It was the successful U.S. disinflation of the 1990s, a disinflation that lowered the inflation rate sufficiently to create concern that further downward pressure might push it into negative t...

BACKGROUND Inflation and deflation of a pneumatic tourniquet used in total knee replacement surgery induces various changes in patient's hemodynamic and metabolic status, which may result in serious complications, especially in aged patients. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a monitoring device designed to estimate the regional cerebral oxygen saturation. We evaluated the effect of tourniqu...

Aggressive early deflation has proven to significantly enhance the convergence of the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues of a nonsymmetric matrix. One purpose of this paper is to point out that this deflation strategy is equivalent to extracting converged Ritz vectors from certain Krylov subspaces. As a special case, the single-shift QR algorithm enhanced with aggressive early deflation...