BACKGROUND In calculations of burden of disease using disability-adjusted life years, disability weights are needed to quantify health losses relating to non-fatal outcomes, expressed as years lived with disability. In 2012 a new set of global disability weights was published for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD 2010) study. That study suggested that comparative assessments of different h...

The Cell Method, a new efficient numerical method suitable for working with periodic structures having anisotropic inhomogeneous media with curved shapes, is proposed in order to calculate the band gap of 2D photonic crystals for in-plane propagation of TM and TE waves. Moreover some numerical comparisons with other numerical methods will be provided.

We formulate certain numerical problems with stochastic numbers and compare algebraically obtained results with experimental results provided by the CESTAC method. Such comparisons give additional information related to the stochastic behavior of random roundings in the course of numerical computations. The good coincidence between theoretical and experimental results confirms the adequacy of o...