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China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this unprecedented living experience of human being and the unique Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) datasets with the aim to answer in this volume the following questions critical to the aging population world wide. Is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? Is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? The first section of the book presents the CLHLS project’s study design, sample distribution, contents of data collected, and assessments of age reporting and data quality. The remaining chapters are grouped into sections dealing with the demographic, social, economic, familial and psychological dimensions of healthy longevity. This volume contributes to the development of scientific knowledge related to the "slowing down" of the pace of progression of morbidity with mortality declines at older ages. Research findings reported in this book are instrumental in the ultimate realization of the long-term dream of healthy longevity, that is, not only living longer, but living a healthier life. "The research in this book captures the highlight of a decade of effort on CLHLS study and represents an important milestone in our emerging understanding of how individuals can endeavor to live a long, healthy life and how societies can help them do so. We still have only a partial understanding of the determinants of healthy longevity, but we have a considerably better understanding than we had a decade ago. Moreover, we can look forward to prospects for a deeper understanding based in significant measure on the further analysis of data from the ongoing CLHLS endeavor." -- James W. Vaupel, Director of Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Professor of Duke University "The CLHLS casts valuable light on important features of the aging process in the world's largest country. This volume will serve as a basic reference work both for Chinese studies and for comparative analyses." -- Samuel Preston, Frederick Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania "The CLHLS is a fantastic enterprise which started 10 years ago and which will leave a benchmark of the social, economic, and familial situation of the Chinese elderly at the time when they comprised 7% of the whole population and when China entered a new period of accelerated aging. From now on population aging in China and its social consequences, as well as individual lengthening of life and its health consequences will be carefully assessed in reference to the CLHLS. We dream to have such studies for the other large countries on the point of also experiencing similar demographic changes" -- Jean-Marie Robine, Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Professor of University of Montpellier.

Longevity --- S11/0732 --- S21/0500 --- S21/0560 --- China: Social sciences--Elderly people --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Handicapped people: care and institutions --- Age --- Demography. --- Aging --- Geriatrics. --- Aging. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Sociology, general. --- Research. --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Age factors in disease --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Physiological effect --- Sociology. --- Social theory

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This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household types and sizes, living arrangements of all household members, and population by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and urban/rural residence at national, sub-national, or small area levels.  It can also project elderly care needs and costs, pension deficits, and household consumption. The ProFamy method presented herein has substantial merits compared to the traditional headship rate method, which is not linked to demographic rates and projects limited household types without other household members than "heads". The book consists of four parts. The first part presents the methodology, data, estimation issues, and empirical assessments. The next parts present applications in the United States (part two) and China (part three), concerning demographic, social, economic, and business research; policy analysis, including forecasting future trends of household type/size, elderly living arrangements, disability, and home-based care costs, and household consumption including housing and vehicles. The fourth part includes a user’s guide for the ProFamy software to project households, living arrangements, and home-based consumptions. This book offers an invaluable toolkit for researchers, analysts and students in academic, public and private businesses, whose work is related to levels and rates of change in households, population and consumption patterns.

Business & Economics --- Demography --- Households --- Population forecasting --- Families --- Forecasting. --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Forecasting, Population --- Population --- Population projection --- Population projections --- Projection, Population --- Projections, Population --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Forecasting --- Social sciences. --- Marketing. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Aging. --- Demography. --- Families. --- Social Sciences. --- Family. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Social aspects. --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Vital statistics --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Retail trade --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Selling --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Physiological effect --- Government policy --- Management --- Marketing --- Social prediction --- Home economics --- Aging --- Research. --- Families—Social aspects. --- City planning.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017, held in Beijing, China, in November 2017. The 31 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. BI addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics related to mental health and well-being.

Computer science. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Data mining. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Image processing. --- Pattern recognition. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Pattern Recognition. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Operating Systems. --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Computer operating systems --- Computers --- Disk operating systems --- Informatics --- Operating systems --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Database searching --- Systems software --- Science --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer vision. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Artificial intelligence --- Image processing --- Pattern recognition systems --- Neural networks (Computer science) --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Optical equipment --- Pattern perception. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Operating systems (Computers)