Despite lack of evidence regarding its antiseptic superiority over silver nitrate for preventing ophthalmia neonatorum, Argyrol was promoted so savvily by Albert Coombs Barnes that the revenues enabled him to amass a unique art collection reflecting his early appreciation of the African influence on European painters. He addressed social disparities specially through access for disadvantaged in...

A Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method has been developed for solving 3D elastodynamic problems. It is derived from the local weak form of the equilibrium equations by using the general MLPG concept. By incorporating the moving least squares (MLS) approximations for trial and test functions, the local weak form is discretized, and is integrated over the local sub-domain for the transien...

Acoustic sensors have been used for battlefield applications since World War I. Acoustic sensors provide several advantages and are increasingly employed in the modern high-tech battlefield. The twenty-first century battlefield calls for cutting-edge technology for military superiority and deployment of state-of-the-art acoustic sensor systems that employ advanced acoustic signal processing. Th...

To ensure preservation of local or global bounds for numerical solutions conservation laws, we constrain a baseline finite element discretization using optimization-based (OB) flux correction. The main novelty the proposed methodology lies in use potentials as control variables and targets inequality-constrained optimization problems fluxes. In contrast to optimal via general source terms, disc...

Capuchin monkeys' (Cebas apella) relative accuracy in the processing of the global shape or the local features of hierarchical visual stimuli was assessed. Three experiments are presented featuring manipulations of the arrangement and the density of the local elements of the stimuli. The results showed a clear advantage for local level processing in this species, which is robust under manipulat...

The idea of local learning, i.e., classifying a particular example based on its neighbors, has been successfully applied to many semi-supervised and clustering problems recently. However, the local learning methods developed so far are all devised for single-view problems. In fact, in many real-world applications, examples are represented by multiple sets of features. In this paper, we extend t...

Nepal moved from unitary system with a three-level federal system of government. As federalism accelerates, the national health system can also speed up its own decentralization process, reduce disparities in access, and improve health outcomes. The turn towards federalism creates several potential opportunities for the national healthcare system. This is because decision making has been devolv...

Abstract Many population axiologies avoid the Repugnant Conclusion (RC) by endorsing Superiority: some number of great lives is better than any mediocre lives. But as Nebel shows, RC follows (given plausible auxiliary assumptions) from Intrapersonal (IRC): a guaranteed life sufficiently small probability life. This result concerning because IRC plausible. Recently, Kosonen has argued that can b...