IN FUTURE BATTLES WHERE SHALL THE FIELD HOSPITALS BE PLACED?

Panel: Where Should the Intelligence in Intelligent Interfaces be Placed?

Planning how to use a system to accomplish a particular goal? l What are the general approaches towards addressing those problems ? For example, one might approach the understandability issue by trying to broaden the range of inputs handled so that users can get by with less knowledge, or by building in more self-knowledge so that systems could generate justifications of their own reasoning and...

Video display during laparoscopy – where should it be placed?

INTRODUCTION During laparoscopy, the monitor is usually placed near the operating table, at eye level, which significantly affects hand-eye coordination. First, it is impossible for the surgeon to simultaneously observe the operative field and hand movement. Second, the axis of view of the endoscope rarely matches the natural axis of the surgeon's sight: it resembles a direct view into the oper...

Where shall John go? Newfoundland.

should begin at birth. The best results are obtained when children are treated in a special clinic with orthopaedic surgeon, nursing staff, and physiotherapists to supervise the patients' care. Stretching and strapping with early elongation of the tendocalcaneus when necessary has proved to be the most successful method of treatment. In our clinic 206 children have been seen with clubfoot and 3...

Where shall John go? Transkei.

Transkei is becoming headline news. Until recently this corner of South Africa was known in Britain only to a few tourists for its rolling hills dotted with huts; its "red blanket" tribespeople; and its click-language-recently heard over here in the African musical Ipi Tombi. On 26 October it became the Republic of Transkei-the first "independent African homeland" of South Africa. Like any deve...

The Tuberculosis Campaign in India : Where Must the Emphasis Be Placed?