Production test under hostile environment at the MITI Mishima well.

The clinician-scientist: a rare breed under threat in a hostile environment.

Nick Lemoine is at the Institute of Cancer, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. It is evident that clinician-scientists are high-fliers, but also increasingly obvious that they are rare and endangered Translation requires individuals who are fluent in two languages, and this is equally true of translational medicine, for which clinicia...

Perceptual Reasoning in a Hostile Environment

The thesis of this paper is that perception requires reasoning mechanisms beyond those typically employed in deductive systems. We briefly present some arguments to support this contention, and then offer a framework for a system capable of perceptual reasoning, using sensorderived information, to survive in a hostile environment. Some of these ideas have been incorporated in a computer program...

Robust Satellite Communications under Hostile Interference

Getting the Job Done in a Hostile Environment

In nature animals going about their daily routine need to avoid predators in order to survive. Many animals have evolved some kind of startle response, which enables them to escape from dangerous situations. As robots are required to operate in more hostile environments, mechanisms analogous to startle responses may be critical to building robust systems. This paper presents some preliminary wo...

Applying economics in a hostile environment: the health sector.

In this paper we state that health economics is now amongst the leaders in a «paradigm shift» in economics that needs to spread as quickly as possible into the rest of the subject. This conclusion is obtained from considering that economics can be applied to topics that do not appear superficially to be economic topics such as what is the best treatment for a national health service to offer to...