One of the first decisions made in any research concerns the selection of an appropriate scale of analysis – are we looking out into the heavens, or down into atoms? To conceive a digital library as a collection of a million books may restrict analysis to only one level of granularity. In this paper we examine the consequences and opportunities resulting from a shift in scale, where the desired...

Millions of chronic mentally sick are living in this country without proper care. Human rights of most of these patients both for treatment and for leading a life of dignity have been seriously abrogated. This oration discusses the extent of the problem & reviews the won\ done in this area in India and abroad. Major emphasis is to develop a programme for destigmatization of mental illness and t...

The hardware and software designs need a clear, consistent and universally accepted definition of the coordinate system for the LAT. This note specifies the global LAT instrument coordinate system; the terminology, numbering, and orientation of detector planes in the TKR and CAL; and tower numbering, the local tower coordinate systems, and detector element numbering within a tower. The conventi...

The scientific evidence accumulated by the IPCC shows that climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Forced displacement of populations, mostly internal numbering in millions, one dramatic consequences. To prevent it provide comprehensive protection victims (Internally Displaced Persons), African Union adopted, 2009, its Convention for Protection Assistance Internally...

Consider the problem of mapping postal addresses to buildings in satellite imagery using publicly available information, defined as the Building Identification (BID) problem in [1]. This problem takes as input a bounding box that defines the area of a satellite image, buildings identified in the image, vector information that specifies streets in the image, and a set of phone-book entries for t...

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