Putting AI ethics to work: are the tools fit for purpose?

Fit for purpose: do we have the right tools to sustain NTD elimination?

Priorities for NTD control programmes will shift over the next 10-20 years as the elimination phase reaches the 'end game' for some NTDs, and the recognition that the control of other NTDs is much more problematic. The current goal of scaling up programmes based on preventive chemotherapy (PCT) will alter to sustaining NTD prevention, through sensitive surveillance and rapid response to resurge...

Shapes Fit For Purpose

This paper is about shape fitting to regions that segment an image and some applications that rely on the abstraction that offers. The novelty lies in three areas: (1) we fit a shape drawn from a selection of shape families, not just one class of shape, using a supervised classifier; (2) We use results from the classifier to match photographs and artwork of particular objects using a few qualit...

Putting international research ethics guidelines to work for the benefit of developing countries.

Putting the pill to work.

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the FDA approval of the birth control pill, and with that milestone came numerous stories about the sexual liberation of women. While the pill deserves much credit for revolutionizing our sexual culture, it merits even more for transforming our workforce. Providers have long known the individual and public health benefits of family planning, but the medi...

Putting Ricardo to Work

Presented with the opportunity to trade, countries bene…t by specializing in the activities they do relatively better. This …nding, the principle of comparative advantage, is one of the …rst analytic results in economics. While Adam Smith (1776) made a much earlier case for free trade, he based it on increasing returns to scale, and provided no formal demonstration. In contrast, David Ricardo (...