In this paper I maintain that Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) implies a recuperation of practical science in Economics. Sen’s proposal has some problems closely related to this practical character: the heterogeneity and incommensurability of capabilities, its ambiguity concerning the use of the term “capability”, and the consequent lack of operative character of the CA. Sen recognizes th...

Energy independence and sustainable renewable energy sources are the two main components of security for Nepal. More than 2/3rd consumed in Nepal comes from biofuels waste about 1/4th coal petroleum products. With increasing number motor vehicles rising demand cooking gas, Nepal’s import bills recent years have reached over Rs. 200 billion. its vast water resources, has a great potential sustai...

BACKGROUND Short bowel syndrome (SBS) can lead to intestinal failure and require total or supplemental parenteral nutrition (TPN or PN, respectively). Glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2) is a nutrient-dependent, proglucagon-derived gut hormone that stimulates intestinal adaptation. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine whether supplemental enteral nutrients (SEN) modulate the intestinotrophic ...

The use of computational steering for smog prediction is described. This application is representative for many underlying issues found in steering high performance applications: high computing times, large data sets, and many diierent input parameters. After a short description of the smog prediction model, its visualization and steering are described. The amount of computation needed to solve...

1 Department of Epidemiology & Bio-statistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta, India. 2 Health Services Research, St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO 63108 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Urmi Sen, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 37, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700026, Fax: 91-33-475 7606, e-mail: u...

Computational steering is a technique that combines simulation and visualization. The user is continuously provided with visual feedback about the state of the simulation, and can change parameters on the y. Designers can vary parameters to optimize their product, users can detect errors in the input early, researchers can do qualitative sensitivity analyses easily. The implementation of comput...

We present a method for the deenition of multiple views in 3D interfaces for computational steering. The method uses the concept of a point-based parametrizable camera object. This concept enables a user to create and conngure multiple views on his custom 3D interface in an intuitive graphical manner. Each view can be coupled to objects present in the interface, parametrized to (simulation) dat...

1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R.China. 2 Department of Periodontology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China. 3 Department of Oncological Radiotherapy, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, P.R. China. Intern...