In the Woods, 1957

Ambient Sounds in the Woods

In this paper we describe research in which we have used sound as part of a mobile multimedia learning experience for children. In this work we have classified sound clips into categories that appear to have differing effectiveness. We have also observed unexpected behaviour by the children indicating that our devices are capable of further development. We propose further research using sound t...

CRISPRing into the woods

The CRISPR/Cas9 technology is a welcome breakthrough for genome editing, owing to its precision, efficiency, versatility and ease of adoption. We recently reported the first application of CRISPR/Cas9 for biallelic mutations in stably transformed Populus, extending the species range of this powerful technology to woody perennials. An underappreciated obstacle in genome editing of outcrossing sp...

The Mental Health Service in 1957

Deep Woods

Recent theoretical studies indicate that deep architectures [4, 2] are needed to efficiently model complex distributions and to achieve better generalization performance on challenging recognition tasks. The belief that additional levels of functional composition will yield increased representational and modeling power is not new [13, 9, 16]. In practice, learning in deep architectures had prov...

The 1957 Epidemic of Poliomyelitis in Belfast

D. S. DANE, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), Lecturer in Microbiology, Queen's University, Belfast with MOYA BRIGGS, B.Sc., and R. T. NELSON, A.I.M.L.T. IN the summer and early autumn of 1957 there was an epidemic of type 1 poliomyelitis in Northern Ireland. The principle area involved was Belfast County Borough (population approximately 450,000), where there were 162 cases of acute poliomyelitis, of whic...