New detector sought

Urgent fisheries changes sought

Europe's fishermen should stop catching North Sea cod and continue to avoid Bay of Biscay anchovies next year if the two species are to stand a chance of survival after years of chronic overfishing, scientists announced last month. Despite improvements in the numbers of northern hake, herring and mackerel, other species living in the northeast Atlantic need more time to rebuild stocks, the Inte...

Cause sought for student illness

Food p o iso n in g is be ing c o n ­ s idered by the D epa rtm e n t o f En­ v iro n m e n ta l H ealth and Safety (D E H S ) as a possib le cause o f the recen t surge o f ga s tro e n te ritis am ong N o rth Q uad students. No firm ev idence has been fo u nd yet to co n n ec t the N o tre Dam e Food Service w ith the illness. “ I t doesn 't seem lik e ly i t co u ld be food p o is o n in g ,...

COP: a new corner detector

Most conventional derivative-based corner detectors have shortcomings such as missing junctions, poor localization, sensitivity to noise and high computational cost. This paper presents a new, simple and effective low level processing method to detect corners. In this corner detection algorithm, two oriented cross operators called crosses as oriented pair (COP) are used, which provide useful in...

Canadian approval sought for controversial pain drug.

Accountability sought by patients following adverse events from medical care: the New Zealand experience.

BACKGROUND Unlike Canada's medical malpractice system, patients in New Zealand who are dissatisfied with the quality of their care may choose between 2 well-established medicolegal paths: one leads to monetary compensation and the other to nonmonetary forms of accountability. We compared the forms of accountability sought by patients and families in New Zealand who took different types of legal...