Chapter 1 Introduction and previous research

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Background

Most developed countries are facing the problem of increasing number of elderly. In an aging society, it is highly desirable to reduce the need for medical services by maintaining the health of the population. The need of health care and management for the elderly is an urgent issue. Home has become the centerpiece of health delivery system today. Intensive monitoring of health parameters in th...

RESEARCH STATEMENT : ERIC SWARTZ 1 Introduction and Previous Work

First and foremost, I have extensive experience with permutation group theory. There is an extensive literature on groups that act primitively on a set Ω, i.e., those groups which do not preserve a nontrivial system of blocks. Furthering this is the notion of quasiprimitivity. A group G acts quasiprimitively on a set Ω if every nontrivial normal subgroup of G is transitive on Ω. Every group act...

1 CHAPTER 1 : Introduction

Chapter – 1 Introduction and Preliminaries

Chapter 1 – Introduction and objectives

1.1. General Introduction Plesiosaurs are a group of secondarily aquatic diapsid reptiles belonging to the clade Sauropterygia (Carroll, 1988). Diapsids (subclass Diapsida) are a monophyletic group supported by both morphological and molecular data (Lee, 2001) including lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds, and represent a major sub-group of the amniote vertebrates, i.e. vertebrate organisms w...