It is well-known that Catalan numbers Cn = 1 n+1 ( 2n n ) count the number of dominant regions in the Shi arrangement of type A, and that they also count partitions which are both n-cores as well as (n + 1)-cores. These concepts have natural extensions, which we call here the m-Catalan numbers and m-Shi arrangement. In this paper, we construct a bijection between dominant regions of the m-Shi a...

OBJECTIVE The Government of Swaziland decided to explore the feasibility of social health insurance (SHI) in order to enhance universal access to health services. We assess the financial feasibility of a possible SHI scheme in Swaziland. The SHI scenario presented is one that mobilises resources additional to the maintained Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) budget. It is designed to...

Growing up in rural China under the imposed hardships of the cultural revolution, Yigong Shi did not have the luxury of toys. Instead Shi, now the dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, made elaborate models out of clay he collected from the fields. “I would stay for hours to a make a ship or train model with small parts,” he recalls. Decades later, as a structur...

Multiple criteria optimization seeks to simultaneously optimize two or more objective functions under a set of constraints. It has a great variety of applications, ranging from financial management, energy planning, sustainable development, to aircraft design. Data mining is aim at extracting hidden and useful knowledge from large databases. Major contributors of data mining include machine lea...

Y. Bito, K. Hirata, T. Ebisu, Y. Kawai, Y. Otake, S. Hirata, T. Shirai, Y. Soutome, H. Ochi, M. Umeda, T. Higuchi, and C. Tanaka Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan, Neurosurgery, Nantan General Hospital, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan, Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan, Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integra...

In the 1990s, Latvia aimed at introducing Social Health Insurance (SHI) but later changed to a National Health Service (NHS) type system. The NHS is financed from general taxation, provides coverage to the entire population, and pays for a basic service package purchased from independent public and private providers. In November 2013, the Cabinet of Ministers passed a draft Healthcare Financing...

BACKGROUND Inadequate sleep hygiene may result in difficulties in daily functioning; therefore, reliable scales for measuring sleep hygiene are important. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI). MATERIALS AND METHODS From April 2014 to May 2015, 1280 subjects, who were selected by cluster random ...

A Chinese hamster ovary cell line (CHOp) was cultured in the presence of benzyloxycarbonyl-Leu-Leu-Tyr diazomethyl ketone (ZLLY-CHN2), to select for resistance to this cell-permeant calpain inhibitor. A clone isolated after several courses of exposure (SHI cells) demonstrated decreased sensitivity to ZLLY-CHN2 toxicity and a decreased growth rate. SHI cells also possessed less mu-calpain isozym...

BACKGROUND Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) is the intentional destruction of healthy body tissue without suicidal intent. DSH behaviours in non-clinical populations vary, and instruments containing a range of behaviours may be more informative than ones with restricted content. The Self-Harm Inventory (SHI) is a widely used measure of DSH in clinical populations (mental and physical health) and cove...