Well-being, democracy, and the economic system: An empirical analysis

Well Being;Economic Systems;Democracy;economic systems

Measuring well-being with social indicators, HDIs, PQLI, and BWI for 133 countries for 1975, 1980, 1985, 1988, and 1992

Well Being;Measurement;Social Indicators;welfare economics

Walking the tightrope: UN peacekeeping operations and durable peace: do they actually contribute

Contains fulltext : 47142.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 23 maart 2006Promotores : Pauwels, A., Frerks, G.417 p

Automated Atlas-Based Segmentation of Brain Structures in MR Images: Application to a Population-Based Imaging Study

The final type of segmentationmethod is atlas-based segmentation (sometimes also called label propagation). In this approach, additional knowledge is introduced through an atlas image, in which an expert has labeled the brain structures of interest. The atlas is first registered to the target image, and the resulting transformation is then used to deform the atlas labels to the coordinate system of the target image. During registration the similarity between the warped atlas image and the target image is maximized, while at the same time the deformation is constrained to ensure that the spatial information of the atlas is maintained

Simulation of heat and mass transfer in spray drying

A survey is given of heat and mass transfer around droplets in spray dryers and the diffusional transport inside them. A calculational model is developed which includes variable diffusion coefficients in the drying liquid and swelling or shrinking of droplets. Calculations for droplets containing soluble solids show how the drying histories of droplets are influenced by three extreme patterns of air circulation and spray dispersion, and by droplet inflation. The influence of these factors on the properties of spray-dried liquid foods are discussed. Furthermore diffusion equations for binary systems are surveyed and diffusion coefficients for super-saturated aqueous maltose solutions are reported