A number of WC-Co cemented carbides with 6–12 wt. % Co were machined and surface finished by grinding or Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM). EDM was executed in deionised water through several consecutive gradually finer steps. Correlations between Material Removal Rate (MRR), surface finish and EDM parameters were derived. The quality and integrity of surface finishes were analysed by Scanni...

We used our TopSig open-source indexing and retrieval tool to produce runs for the ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 track. TopSig was used to produce runs using the query fields and provided discharge summaries, where appropriate. Although the improvement was not great TopSig was able to gain some benefit from utilising the discharge summaries, although the software needed to be modified to support this...

In this paper, we present the latest version of our dialogue games based agent communication language (DIAGAL) which allows the agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue. We show that DIAGAL is complete according to the sequential creation, cancellation, update and discharge of social commitments. We also extend and refine notions of success and satisfaction p...

The Canadian healthcare system is facing growing challenges due to increasingly complex patient cases and the lack of a truly integrated healthcare system. As a result, a rising problem has been the high rate of readmission to hospital within 30 days of discharge. Readmissions are costly, frustrating for care providers, and most importantly, are an indication of poor patient health outcomes. Th...

The populations in many developed countries throughout the world are aging rapidly and the number of geriatric patients is expected to rise steeply in those countries. This will exert greater pressures on the management of hospital resources as a result. Hospital length of stay (LOS) is an important indicator of hospital activity and management because of its direct relation to resource consump...

The Earth’s atmosphere is a large scale laboratory to study particles. Particles from stellar processes impinge on the top of the Earth’s atmosphere and propagate downward. Particles from discharge processes at the bottom of the atmosphere propagate upwards into near-Earth space. The acceleration of both particle populations in the Earth’s atmosphere produces electromagnetic radiation which is ...

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