Emotional factors related to aging at home assistive technology are known to affect technology acceptance, effective use, and quality of life improvement. This paper is a survey on the affective dimension of robot-based systems conceived for helping elderly at home. The specificity of elders’ capabilities (e.g. sensory and cognitive), coping styles, aspirations, lifestyles, social rules and pre...

The large number of exact fitness function evaluations makes evolutionary algorithms to have computational cost (especially in Multi Objective Problems (MOPs)). In some realworld problems, reducing number of these evaluations is much more valuable even by increasing computational complexity and spending more time. To fulfil this target, we introduce an effective factor, in spite of applied fact...

Abstract—This paper presents an application of Multi-objective optimization and evolutive algorithms in a ZigBee network to determine the optimal routing tree for transmission. In this research the interference among nearby networks and the number of hops were taken as objective functions. The multi-objetive evolutionary algorithm SPEA (Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm is used for optimiz...

You can impress people at a distance, but you can impact them only up close.—Howard Hendricks Mentorship has always been an integral part of the medical profession. Historically, medical knowledge and philosophy were handed down from one generation to another through close, interactive apprenticeships, many evolving into mentoring relationships. With today’s changing world of medicine, where th...

This paper examines the generational aspect of the current Medicare system and some stylized reforms. We find that the rates of return on Medicare for today’s workers are higher than those for Social Security and that the Medicare system is shifting a greater share of the burden on future workers than is Social Security. Nonetheless, the rates of return on Medicare, using the Medicare Trustees ...

Using a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Asian American late adolescents/young adults (ages 18-26), this article investigates the link between peer effects, school climate, on the one hand, and substance use, which includes tobacco, alcohol, and other illicit mood altering substance. The sample (N = 1585) is drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Waves...

This paper shows how changes in generational accounts relate to the gen­ erational incidence of fiscal policy. To illustrate the relationship, it uses the Auerbach-KotlikofF Dynamic Life-Cycle Simulation Model to compare policyinduced changes in generational accounts with actual changes in generations' Utilities. The paper considers a wide ränge of policies in closed and small open economies as...

Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States A Generational Accounting Perspective In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational acco...

This paper discusses the application of evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms namely Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) and Modified NSGA-II (MNSGA-II) for solving the Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (CEED) problem with valvepoint loading. The valve-point loading introduce ripples in the input-output characteristics of generating units and make the CEED prob...