Abstract Home equity represents a substantial share of retirement wealth for many older persons, particularly in Asia where national housing policies have encouraged home-ownership. This paper explored the potential reverse mortgages to help ‘asset-rich and cash-poor’ Singaporeans unlock their home while ageing place. The empirical analysis was based on nationally representative survey home-own...

The Si III] 1892 Å intercombination line shows an anomalously high intensity in spectra of the radiation-rich Weigelt blobs in the vicinity of Eta Carinae. The line disappears during the 100 days long spectral events occurring every 5.5 years. The aim is to investigate whether resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization (RETPI) is a plausible excitation mechanism for the Si III] λ1892 line. The po...

OBJECTIVE In the field of global mental health, there is a need for identifying core values and competencies to guide training programs in professional practice as well as in academia. This paper presents the results of interdisciplinary discussions fostered during an annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture to develop recommendations for value-driven innovation in ...

BACKGROUND The use of unnecessary tests and treatments contributes to health care waste. The "Choosing Wisely" campaign charges medical societies with identifying such items. This report describes the identification of 5 tests and treatments in newborn medicine. METHODS A national survey identified candidate tests and treatments. An expert panel of 51 individuals representing 28 perinatal car...

Podophyllotoxins represent an important and unique position among natural products. They serve as the starting material for the semi-synthetic anticancer drugs etopside and teniposide, so considerable attention has focused on the availability of these aryltetralin lignans. Linum is one of the genera, with some reports on the presence of podophyllotoxin and related compounds, such as L. album, L...

The very proton-rich nuclide 48Mn, produced in ‘2C(40Ca, p3n) reactions, was investigated using on-line mass separation combined with singles and coincidence spectroscopy of P-delayed y-rays and protons. Compared to the previous 48Mn decay work, a more accurate value of 158.1 (22) ms was obtained for the half-life, y singles, yy-coincidence and proton singles data were improved, and proton-y co...

Modelling preferences has been an active research topic in Artificial Intelligence for more than fifteen years. Existing formalisms are rich and flexible enough to capture the behaviour of complex decision rules. However, for being interesting in practice, it is interesting to learn not a single model, but a probabilistic model that can compactly represent the preferences of a group of users – ...

Introduction: Oxygen isotope systematics between 16 O-rich and –poor reservoirs is well known in the solar system [1]. Since O is account for over 50 atomic % of terrestrial planets and also dominant in the solar nebular gas next to H and He [2], range and distribution of the systematics is an important tracer recording origin and global evolution of early solar system. The 16 O-rich endmenber,...

Five-hole probes, being a dependable and accurate aerodynamic tools, are excellent choices for measuring complex flow fields. However, total pressure gradients can induce measurement errors. The combined effect of the different flow conditions on the ports causes the measured total pressure to be prone to a greater error. This paper proposes a way to correct the total pressure measurement. The ...