Cancer link to power cables exaggerated, say critics

Critics say HIV survey potentially biased.

Professor Alan Smith, KwaZuluNatal's chief virologist at UND and Professor Rob Dorrington, Director of the Centre for Actuarial Research at UCT, cautioned against 'jumping to any policy conclusions based on the potentially biased study' by lead investigator Professor Olive Shisana . The study by the former Health Director General was completed in July and estimates the overall HIV prevalence in...

Nothing cutting edge about Canadian ehealth strategy, critics say.

Power to the Critics – A Framework for the Development of Artificial Art Critics

In this paper we propose a framework for the development of artificial art critics, consisting of an architecture and a validation methodology. The architecture includes two modules: a feature extractor, which performs a pre-processing of the artwork, extracting several measurements and characteristics; and an evaluator, which, based on the output of the feature extractor, classifies the artwor...

Condition Monitoring of Power Cables

A National Grid funded research project at Southampton has investigated possible methodologies for data acquisition, transmission and processing that will facilitate on-line continuous monitoring of partial discharges in high voltage polymeric cable systems. A method that only uses passive components at the measuring points has been developed and is outlined in this paper. More recent work, fun...

Power Delivery in Systems with Lossy Cables