Some Aspects about the Bovine Tuberculosis

Some Unsolved Problems Concerning Bovine Tuberculosis

Some Technical Aspects about Aligning Near Languages

IULA at UPF has developed an aligner that benefits from corpus processing results to produce an accurate and robust alignment, even with noisy parallel corpora. It compares lemmata and part-of-speech tags of analysed texts but it has two main characteristics. First, apparently it only works for near languages and second it requires morphological taggers for the compared languages. These two cha...

Some Aspects of Intravenous Therapy for Tuberculosis

book of the 4th Conference of The Union Asia-Pacific Region 10-13 April 2013 (Ha Noi, Viet Nam) Background:

Some Philosophical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge

The first part of the talk will highlight the way in which assumptions widespread in the literature on reasoning about knowledge generate the traditional philosophical problem of scepticism. The problematic assumptions to be discussed here do not include logical omniscience, but are equally serious. My particular concern will be with the so-called Brouwerian axiom: p $ K~Kp (if p is false, an a...

Public health and bovine tuberculosis: what's all the fuss about?

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in UK cattle is increasing rapidly. Consequently, the UK Government is spending escalating sums of money in attempts at disease control. We propose that bTB control in cattle is irrelevant as a public health policy. In the UK, cattle-to-human transmission is negligible. Aerosol transmission, the only probable route of human acquisition, occurs at inconsequential levels...