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Margaret McCartney: If this was cancer there'd be an outcry-but it's mental health.

A million British volunteers will learn skills in mental health first aid, at a cost of £15m. The government, which is funding the exercise, says that this will improve “personal resilience” and “help people recognise and respond effectively to signs of mental illness in others.” This will include an online learning module “based on what has been shown to work, so that we can all be better at s...

If you wanna be loved

We enjoyed reading Jordan Raff’s My word article [1], in which he expressed dismay at the lack of interest the British public take in science and contrasted this with his experiences in the US. He also indicated that local politicians and school children did not visit scientific institutions in the UK and that his colleagues were less than enthusiastic when confronted with the idea that such vi...

Database Replication: If You Must be Lazy, be Consistent

Due to severe performance penalties associated with synchronous replication, there is a significant interest in asynchronous replica management protocols. Lazy protocols currently in use either do not guarantee consistency and serializability as needed by transactional semantics or they impose restrictions on placement of data and which data object can be updated. In this paper we consider an a...

What if Machines Could be Creative?

Computational creativity is the field of research that is concerned with making computers creative. In this paper, we focus on a particular subfield of this domain, combinatorial creativity. This subfield is concerned with combining components of existing concepts into new concepts. For example, we can combine the concept of a watch with the capabilities of a smartphone – and obtain a smartwatc...