The College at 60

General practice and the College: 60 years on.

In 1952 the state of general practice in the UK and the rest of the world was dire. Specialist medicine was advancing rapidly, Lord Moran would soon describe GPs as having ‘fallen off the ladder’, and Sir Arthur Thompson stated that general practice was ‘outmoded’. GPs had no training for their job, no body of scientific knowledge, no journal or college of their own. There was not one professor...

The Experience at Trinity College Dublin

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The Liver Unit at King's College.

1 Imperial College at TRECVID

We describe our experiments for the shot boundary detection, high-level feature extraction and search. In the shot boundary detection task, we employ our proven method based on the calculation of distances between colour histograms of frames over a range of timescales. For the search task, we tested a different system. This year, content based search is complemented with a new relevance feedbac...

The NHS at 60: time to end the fairy tale.

Although their effects can be to reduce the severity and slow the progression of established conditions and risks only, their mass application has been an important contribution to improving population health and longevity. 3 The converse is that if such care is not delivered equitably, the NHS becomes a producer of inequalities in health 4 and part of the explanation of why inequalities are wi...