Regional floras: increasing their value while reducing their cost

Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste.

www.thelancet.com Vol 383 January 11, 2014 101 Of 1575 reports about cancer prognostic markers pub lished in 2005, 1509 (96%) detailed at least one signifi cant prognostic variable. However, few identifi ed biomarkers have been confi rmed by subsequent research and few have entered routine clinical practice. This pattern—initially promising fi ndings not leading to improvements in health care—h...

Online formative assessments: exploring their educational value

Introduction: Online formative assessments (OFA’s) have beenincreasingly recognised in medical education as resources thatpromote self-directed learning. Formative assessments are usedto support the self-directed learning of students. Online formativeassessments have been identified to be less time consuming withautomated feedback. This pilot study aimed to determine whetherparticipation and pe...

Accelerate Banking Automation While Reducing Risk and Cost

Localizing Objects While Learning Their Appearance

Learning a new object class from cluttered training images is very challenging when the location of object instances is unknown. Previous works generally require objects covering a large portion of the images. We present a novel approach that can cope with extensive clutter as well as large scale and appearance variations between object instances. To make this possible we propose a conditional ...

Natural/mild assisted reproductive technologies: reducing cost and increasing safety.