I would like to focus my attention on the fi rst part of this Conference, which covered issues associated with fi nancial innovation and the problems which led to and exacerbated the recent episode of fi nancial turmoil. These have prompted a lot of discussion about ways in which fi nancial markets allow risk to be shared and raised concerns about how these markets have operated. There has also...

We prove that general merge-and-shrink representations are strictly more powerful than linear ones by showing that there exist problem families that can be represented compactly with general merge-and-shrink representations but not with linear ones. We also give a precise bound that quantifies the necessary blowup incurred by conversions from general merge-and-shrink representations to linear r...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a mental illness self-management intervention, called Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), on the use of and need for mental health services over time compared with nutrition and wellness education. METHOD Participants were recruited from outpatient community mental health settings in Chicago, Illinois. Using a single-blind,...

OBJECTIVE This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of plastic wrap applied after birth and during NICU in preterm infants for prevention of heat loss in preterm infants. STUDY METHODS The Medline (1950 to August 2015), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, Issue 7, 2015), CINAHL (1982 to August 2015) and the Embase (1974 to August 2015) databases ...

Support vector classification (SVC) method is proposed to dive the wrap and weft point, for recognizing the textile weave. As the densities of wrap and weft are known, this image of the textile can be divided in to rectangle of wrap and weft point. The wrap points’ histograms of R, G and B channel are different from the weft points’. So the SVC can trains the swatch by their eigenvectors which ...

Shrink-fitting, a common bonding technique in metal assemblies, was used for mortise and tenon wood joints. The joints had considerable strength. Shrink-fitting yielded joint strengths comparable to those obtained by using several welded dowels. Increasing the number of welded dowels, however, produced joints of higher strength than those bonded just by shrink-fitting. Combining in the same joi...

An extensive experimental investigation to understand the aerodynamic behavior of wrap around fin (WAF) missile configuration has been conducted. Various tests using at first a standard model (TTCP) in the trisonic wind tunnel of Imam Hossein University has been performed. The tunnel has attest section of 60×60 cm2 and can operate at Mach numbers of 0.4≤M∞≤2.2 and at attack angles of -4˚≤α≤10˚....

The critical question raised by the conference is: ‘What should governments do now about population ageing?’ There is a real prospect that population ageing will bring undesired or potentially catastrophic fi nancial market consequences sometime in the future. That is a possibility raised in several of the papers and it is one that newspaper readers are reminded of a few times every year – at l...