An agent's ability to distinguish between sensory effects that are self-caused, and those not, is instrumental in the achievement of its goals. This thought be central a variety functions biological organisms, from perceptual stabilisation accurate motor control, higher level cognitive such as planning, mirroring sense agency. Although many these well studied AI, this important distinction rare...

In this paper, we describe the accomplishments of the initial phase of the Human Genome Project, with particular attention to the progress made toward achieving the defined goals for constructing genetic and physical maps of the human genome and determining the sequence of human DNA, identifying the complete set of human genes, and analyzing the need for adequate policies for using the informat...

co-organized by Bartt lomiej Grychtol, of the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology in Mannheim, Germany. A new award for best student paper was presented to Robert Winkler (Winkler et al 2014), and runner-up award to Melody Dodd (Dodd and Mueller 2014). This continues the tradition of successful conferences on biomedical applications of electrical impedance tomo...

BACKGROUND Since exchange blood transfusion (EBT) is associated with serious complications, phototherapy has been made more powerful to reduce the need for EBT in the developed world. This study was undertaken to determine the indications for EBT in neonatal jaundice (NNJ) at our unit and what proportion of EBTs was possibly avoidable. METHODS All the babies who had EBT for hyperbilirubinemia...

Imagine having such poor vision that you have to rely on your toddler to ‘tell mummy when the big red bus comes’. This patient had had diabetes for most of her life and it had damaged most of her body. I felt sad but I also felt angry. How could this have happened? Of course, diabetes care cannot prevent complications in every patient, but surely we could prevent much of the tissue damage that ...

This paper discusses some of the fundamental considerations when managing mining slopes. The goal of management is to reduce all components that contribute to the geotechnical risk and by doing so reduce the risk to as low as reasonably achievable. The techniques and procedures suggested are not exhaustive; they represent a snapshot of some of the practical techniques the author has found usefu...