This is a slightly expanded written version of a plenary lecture given at the 20th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 198 1, San Diego, CA. This talk is intended to help spark discussion among researchers in decision, control and estimation about the status of research in the field and of promising new directions for research. One such direction, model-based signal processing, is...

it is necessary for community health nurses to be aware of children growth velocity as well as their height. this is a report of joan arton’s study on primary schools children. traditionally children health indicators were based on if they gain enough weight or not. although today it is proved that height is a better index for children health, but measuring height alone is not enough and growth...