When I was a medical student in 1993, my overseas elective was in Nazareth Hospital in The Galilee, then run by the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (EMMS). It’s the oldest continually functioning hospital in Israel, and has come a long way since 1861. Malcolm Billings’ book tells the story of the Armenian tailor’s son from Ottoman Constantinople who trained in Medicine in Edinburgh and, af...

The local solid flow structure of gas-solid bubbling fluidized bed was investigated to identify and characterize the particle clusters. Extensive mathematical calculations were carried out using the energy-minimization multi-scale (EMMS) approach for evaluating cluster properties including the velocity, the size and the void fraction of clusters in the dense phase of the bed. The results showed...

We revisit mean-risk portfolio selection in a one-period financial market where risk is quantified by positively homogeneous measure . first show that under mild assumptions, the set of optimal portfolios for fixed return nonempty and compact. However, unlike classical mean-variance selection, it can happen no efficient exist. call this situation -arbitrage, prove cannot be excluded—unless as c...

Resonant structural vibrations are a common source of disruptive noise, and suppressing these is often the most direct way to reduce noise levels. Elastic metamaterials (EMMs) consist distributed resonant substructures, at scale which small compared wavelength vibration. This allows materials be used in applications where space limited, more traditional vibration suppression techniques would im...

With the emergence of light field imaging in recent years, compression its elementary image array (EIA) has become a significant problem. Our coding framework includes modeling and reconstruction. For modeling, covariance-matrix form 4-D Epanechnikov kernel (4-D EK) correlated statistics were deduced to obtain mixture models EMMs). A regression EMR) was proposed based on this EK, adaptive model...

In recent studies, the existence of mesoscale precursors has been confirmed in crystallization. Different from classical crystallization theory, which only considers sequential attachment basic monomers (atoms, ions, or molecules), nonclassical process involving such as prenucleation clusters, nanoparticles, and mesocrystals is more complicated. The structure important for quantitative descript...

One of the significant engineering applications of the elastic metamaterial (EMM) is for low-frequency vibration attenuation because of its unusual low-frequency bandgap behavior. However, the forbidden gap from many existing EMMs is usually of narrow bandwidth which limits their practical engineering applications. In this paper, a chirallattice-based EMM beamwith multiple embedded local resona...

Global energy use has risen due to increased demands and inefficient grids in developing countries. Energy saving is detrimental countries which their supply capacity lower than demand. Efficiency Measures (EEMs) can easily be incorporated new buildings; however, existing buildings have limitations geometry, orientation, materiality restrict applicability. This research analyses the efficiency ...