While computer vision has made much progress over the last decade, there is still a long way to go before it rivals the performance of a human child (Pankanti et al., 2011). Challenges in vision systems are therefore manifold. The choice of a grand challenge for vision systems dedicated to improving the quality of life and care of aging adults is due to its high relevance for current and future...

With new data available from the SPS, at 40 and 80 GeV/A, I review the systematics of bulk hadron multiplicities, with prime focus on strangeness production. The classical concept of strangeness enhancement in central AA collisions is reviewed, in view of the statistical hadronization model which suggests to understand strangeness enhancement to arise chiefly in the transition from the canonica...

While the horror of the Nazi medical experiments has been unanimously acknowledged, debate continues over whether results of those experiments which are scientifically sound should be used and cited in publications and, by extension, over whether any ethically-suspect research should be cited or published. The author consulted persons in such diverse disciplines as medical journalism, Holocaus...

This article traces significant moments in the history of the magazine Saúde em Debate - sourcing references and information from documents, historical studies, editions of the magazine, academic work and interviews with physicians and writers who contributed to its creation. In its 39 years of existence, although there may have been variations in the magazine's editorial policy, its role as a ...

Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Fluctuations in a thermal system 6 2.1. Fluctuations in a grand canonical ensemble 6 2.1.1. Fluctuations of the energy and of the conserved charges 7 2.2. Fluctuations in a canonical ensemble 11 2.3. Phase Transitions and Fluctuations 13 3. Other fluctuations 15 3.1. Volume fluctuations 15 3.2. Fluctuation from initial collisions 17 4. Fluctuations and Correlations...

global health 2035, the report of the lancet commission on investing in health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. it showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

OBJECTIVE To describe dietary habits in the Turks and Caicos Islands. DESIGN AND METHODS Food frequency questionnaires were administered to female-household-heads of 144 households randomly selected from three islands' voter's lists (Grand Turk [n = 48], Providenciales [n = 46] and Middle Caicos [n = 50]). Data were collected on the distribution of (a) Households among Levels 0 - 7 of a Food ...

To address some of the uncertainties inherent in large-scale models, two very different urban models, an advanced travel demand model and an integrated land use and transportation model, are applied to evaluate land use, transit, and auto pricing policies in the Sacramento, CA (US), region. The empirical and modeling literature is reviewed to identify effective land use, transit, and pricing po...