This paper is an attempt to chronicle and evaluate the struggle to innovate, to understand and to produce a sustainable response to the pressing problems of the care and protection of an aging population. In that struggle, quite distinct world views of the lived experience of the older person and their families and carers, the pressures and challenges of practitioners, on managers and planners ...

It appears that the initial resistance/scepticism towards evidence-based medicine (EBM) has declined and the current challenge for professionals is “how to” rather than “why to” practice EBM. The major hurdles include limitations related to: (i) availability (of high quality evidence on problems/ interventions relevant to our setting), (ii) accessibility (to current evidence at the point-ofcare...

Impulsive loads and walking loads can generate problematic structural vibrations in flooring-systems. Measures that may be taken to mitigate the problem would often be to consider the implementation of a tuned mass damper or even more advanced vibration control technologies; this in order to add damping to the structure. Basically also passive humans on a floor act as a damping source, but it a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In the last decade, genomic studies using DNA markers have strongly influenced the current phylogeny of angiosperms. Genome size and ploidy level have contributed to this discussion, being considered important characters in biosystematics, ecology and population biology. Despite the recent increase in studies related to genome size evolution and polyploidy incidence, only a ...

In this article, we shall present an authenticated key agreement protocol which is a modified and faster version of the Yeh-Sun scheme. Compared with the latest Kobara-Imai scheme, our scheme takes fewer steps and less computation cost. Besides, we shall also propose a protected password change protocol that allows users to change their own passwords freely. c © 2005 Elsevier Science Ltd. All r...

In this note, we prove the equivalence, under appropriate conditions, between several dynamical formalisms: projected dynamical systems, two types of differential inclusions, and a class of complementarity dynamical systems. Each of these dynamical systems can also be considered as a hybrid dynamical system. This work both generalizes previous results and sheds some new light on the relationshi...

Common engineering approaches and modeling approaches from software engineering are brought together. For the domain of process automation an implementation oriented approach for an object oriented software development for heterogeneous distributed systems is introduced. Model elements for control are added to UML as well as small-scale patterns for plant automation. Besides large-scale pattern...

Hybrid plants where a fuel cell and a gas turbine are combined have attracted the attention of the power system community. In this paper, a model is provided of a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell stack and of the thermo-hydraulic equipment in which it is embedded. The model is worked out from basic physical considerations; however, it is also simple enough for simulation and control purposes. Besides...

We provide matching upper and lower bounds on the mutual information in noisy reconstruction of parity check codes and thereby prove a long-standing conjecture by Montanari [IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2005]. Besides extending a prior concentration result of Abbe and Montanari [Theory of Computing 2015] to the case of odd check degrees, we precisely determine the conjectured formula...