SHEFFIELD PUBLIC HOSPITAL.

The Public Hospital

The author traces the development of public and private hospitals. In particular, the Article looks at the changing role of the hospital and the development of federal legislation. Next, the author reviews the functions of the public hospital, which include providing care for the poor, prisoners, psychiatric patients, trauma patients, and addicts. A public hospital also has the role of providin...

The Sheffield Medical Journal

Prostitution in Sheffield.

Prostitution in Sheffield, a city with over half a million population, has been reviewed in its legal, social work, and medical aspects. The years studied were 1960-73. The medical studies were confined to the years 1968-72. Prosecutions for soliciting increased steadily during the study period. The trend was more marked locally than nationally and was associated both with increased police acti...

The sheffield wargames corpus

Recognition of speech in natural environments is a challenging task, even more so if this involves conversations between several speakers. Work on meeting recognition has addressed some of the significant challenges, mostly targeting formal, business style meetings where people are mostly in a static position in a room. Only limited data is available that contains high quality near and far fiel...

Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003

In this paper, we use the Systran machine translation system for translating queries for cross language image retrieval in a pilot experiment at CLEF 2003, called ImageCLEF. The approach we have taken is to assume we have little experience in CLIR, few available resources and a limited time in which to create a working CLIR system for this task. In this preliminary study, we investigate the eff...