I enjoyed Dr. Olshansky’s gloomy take on the data relating to healthy life expectancy (HLE). As usual with his writings, the essay is clear and thoughtful, but the available data do not support his pessimistic conclusions. First he sets up a straw man offering that, “life extension in the future would probably not yield the same amount of healthy life as it did in the 1980s,” but our argument i...

I would like to thank Dr. Clarfield for providing an enlightening essay on trends in healthy life expectancy (HLE). He opened my eyes to alternative ways of thinking about these metrics, but before I get into this important issue, it is worth clarifying one main point raised during this debate. Dr. Clarfield states, “Life expectancy is increasing at all ages in the developed world and has been ...

Dr Kottow in his paper Classical medicine v alternative medical practices (1) places the alternativelorthodox medicine debate within an historical context of antiquackery literature. My paper explores the nature of science as it is applied to clinical practice and challenges the narrow view ofthe diagnostic process as outlined byDr Kottow. Research methodologies more appropriate to 'whole perso...

This paper forms a Virtual Energy Storage System (VESS) and validates that VESS is a cost-effective way to provide the function of energy storage through the utilization of the present network assets represented by flexible demand. As a solution to convert to low carbon cities, a VESS is firstly modelled to store and release energy in response to regulation signals by coordinating the demand re...

TO THE EDITOR: We thank Dr. Kawada for his interest in our recent article (5) and for raising several important issues related to the analysis of actigraphy in alcoholics. First, as noted in his letter we did use the default setting of 40 for sleep/wake sensitivity. We did this to permit comparison with our other studies and with the general literature, which largely tends to use this setting (...

Department of Mental Health Policy and Evaluation, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan (Dr Yamanouchi); National Hospital Organization, Tottori Medical Center, Tottori, Japan (Dr Sukegawa); School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan (Dr Inagaki); Department of Psychiatry, Nago...

Demand response (DR) of commercial buildings by directly shutting down part operating chillers could provide an immediate power reduction for grids. In this special fast DR event, effective control needs to guarantee expected and ensure acceptable indoor environment. This study, therefore, developed a data-driven model predictive (MPC) using support vector regression (SVR) events. According the...

This study aims to investigate the effect of demand response (DR) on power and energy flexibilities with three types district heated buildings (apartment building, cultural center, office building) in Finland Germany. A rule-based control algorithm was applied for DR two country-specific dynamic heating (DH) prices, more fluctuating Finnish synthetic DH price flatter German price. research impl...