Minimising Scalpel Handling

Minimising antibiotic resistance.

The problems associated with antibiotic resistance have led to several agency and governmental reports since 1998, along with many sets of usage guidelines. These documents stress the desirability of reducing antimicrobial prescribing, which has subsequently fallen in several countries, including the UK. However, the evidence for any contingent reduction in resistance is scanty, and several pat...

Minimising Acyclic EL Ontologies

Computing equivalent EL-ontologies of minimal size is useful for various reasoning tasks such as uniform interpolation, ontology learning, rewriting ontologies into simpler DLs, abduction and knowledge revision. The corresponding tool support for minimising concepts and ontologies can also provide great help to ontology developers and end-users. We present a method for computing equivalent acyc...

Scalpel and Sword

Minimising the Rank Aggregation Error

Rank aggregation is the problem of generating an overall ranking from a set of individual votes. The aim in doing so is to produce a ranking which is as close as possible to the (unknown) correct ranking for a given distance measure such as the Kendall-tau distance. The challenge is that votes are often both noisy and incomplete. Existing work has largely focused on finding the most likely rank...

The Harmonic Scalpel.

Any laparoscopic surgery demands appropriate surgical instruments. Most surgeons nowadays have adapted to this different form of surgery and have particular preferences for certain types of graspers, dissectors and cutting instruments. The general component of laparoscopic instrument includes the hand grip, shaft, jaw and the tip. The harmonic scalpel is a surgical instrument used to simultaneo...