Two forces are converging, creating conditions both challenging and potentially fruitful for occupational therapy. The profession's knowledge base describing occupation is growing exponentially. At the same time, functional outcomes of intervention are being increasingly valued within the health care environment. Other professions imitate and claim our areas of expertise in the most flattering ...

This paper presents a new variable step-size normalized subband adaptive filter (VSS-NSAF) algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses the prior knowledge of the system impulse response statistics and the optimal step-size vector is obtained by minimizing the mean-square deviation(MSD). In comparison with NSAF, the VSS-NSAF algorithm has faster convergence speed and lower MSD. To reduce the computa...

Despite globalization and assumed institutional convergence, regions remain distinctive in its rules, norms, business practices, and regional culture. This paper examines the role of regional legacy for information technology entrepreneurship, with a survey of two regions in Japan. The study of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, both considered entrepreneurial seedbeds in contemporary Japan, indicate that ev...

Asia Pacific is one of the 6 regions of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). It is a region with 16 full and 2 associate members coming from 14 countries. One of the main activities in the region is the regional conference highlighted by the Wes Fabb Oration.This Fourth Wes Fabb Oration has a historical perspective and three main parts: the results of a cross sectional survey done ...

This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical analysis of Spanish provinces between 1980 and 2007 confirms the positive impact of human capital on regio...

In respect of the frequent fraud cases of social insurance by government organizations, the inspection procedure usually relies on experts’ experience for verification and experienced personnel in charge for checking. However, due to the heavy work load and the insufficiency of manpower and lack of experience, the ratio of miscarriages of justice is very high, leading to improper settlement of ...

Since Krugman’s “Geography and Trade” it has become common knowledge among economists that the spatial consequences of “integration”, that is to say of reduced transaction costs, may be the building up of agglomerations with high productivity levels and external economies of scale (the centre) whereas the periphery is being deprived by out-migration. The authors of a recent study published by t...