For many developing countries, investments in health have proved a great success. The Lancet Commission “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation” and the 2014 Gates annual letter envision the possibility of a “grand convergence” by which more countries will have a child mortality rate as low as 15 per 1000 livebirths in 20 years time. We wish to draw attention to the special ...

Grand challenges in organismal biology Kurt Schwenk,* Dianna K. Padilla, George S. Bakken and Robert J. Full Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA; Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Indiana State University, Terre ...

This paper reports on various aspects of the Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IVS) team’s involvement in the recent 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, wherein our platform, the autonomous “XAV-250,” competed as one of the 11 finalists qualifying for the event. We provide a candid discussion of the hardware and software design process that led to our team’s entry, along with lessons learned at this event a...

Regularized coherent-state functional integrals are derived for ensembles of identical bosons on a lattice, the regularization being discretization Euclidian time. Convergence time-continuum limit is shown various discretized actions. The focus integral representation partition function and expectation values in canonical ensemble. connection to grand-canonical integral, number differences, dis...

Following in the footsteps of the renowned report “Control in an Information Rich World,” Report of the Panel on “Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems” chaired by Richard Murray (2002), this paper aims to demonstrate that Systems & Control is at the heart of the Information and Communication Technologies to most application domains . As such, Systems & Control should be acknowled...

This paper presents a detailed description of phase-field models electrodeposition in lithium-anode batteries, along with underlying assumptions and parameters commonly employed. We simulate the coupled electrochemical interactions during battery charge cycle using finite elements on open-source packages, allowing for parallel computation time step adaptivity. compare conventional free energy g...

This paper is addressed to the numerical solving of the rendering equation in realistic image creation. The rendering equation is integral equation describing the light propagation in a scene accordingly to a given illumination model. The used illumination model determines the kernel of the equation under consideration. Nowadays, widely used are the Monte Carlo methods for solving the rendering...

Abstract Convergence science is an intrepid form of interdisciplinarity defined by the US National Research Council as ‘the coming together insights and approaches from originally distinct fields’ to strategically address grand challenges. Despite its increasing relevance policy institutional design, there still no practical framework for measuring convergence. We this gap developing a measure ...