PCRF Pathology, OP GRITROCK--A biomedical scientist's perspective.

Platelet apheresis in a deployed maritime environment: experiences from Operation GRITROCK.

When the Primary Casualty Receiving Facility (PCRF) on Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ARGUS deployed to Operation GRITROCK in October 2014, platelet apheresis had yet to be proven as a sustainable and usable capability for improving provision of blood products on a maritime platform. This paper explores the difficulties encountered by nurses tasked with setting up this capability once deployed and...

Devising a training programme and reviewing the lessons identified during contingency operations on board the Role 3 Maritime platform.

The deployment of the Primary Casualty Receiving Facility (PCRF) to Sierra Leone in October 2014 in support of Operation GRITROCK was a contingency operation that required a very specific training programme. This article discusses the training and how it evolved beyond its original remit into a programme used as a management tool to meet the needs of the staff. The result was the implementation...

Creating human embryos for research: a scientist's perspective on managing the legal and ethical issues.

Probabilistic Cascade Random Fields for Man-Made Structure Detection

This paper develops the probabilistic version of cascade algorithm, specifically, Probabilistic AdaBoost Cascade (PABC). The proposed PABC algorithm is further employed to learn the association potential in the Discriminative Random Fields (DRF) model, resulting the Probabilistic Cascade Random Fields (PCRF) model. PCRF model enjoys the advantage of incorporating far more informative features t...

So you think you can edit?

This article presents one scientist's perspective on the transition from life at the bench to an editorial career.