[Thanks to the courtesy of the Association of Education Committees we are able to print Mr. W. Popplestone's Memorandum on the Education of Children of Combined Defect, which was forwarded by the Association to the Board of Education. In our January issue we published a letter on this subject from Mr. Popplestone, who is the Director of Education for Shipley, Yorkshire, and readers may recollec...

Four separate improvements to the Winbank Courtesy Amount Recognition System are presented in this paper. The first alteration is a grammar engine to allow for improved recognition and handling of punctuation. An adjustment to the pre-processing steps is also presented which deals with the problem of non-uniformity in character size. A system for feedback between the segmentation and recognitio...

40 SPARC scientists from the Brewer-Dobson Circulation workshop (see summary this issue) held in Grindelwald, Switzerland, June 2012, visited the Sphinx observatory on the Jungfraujoch (3571m) in the Swiss Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Sphinx is a highaltitude, international research station and hosts scientists from more than 20 different research institutions every year, investigati...

Prior to publication, please maintain the enclosed paper in confidence and use it only for purposes of evaluating the merit of the proposed paper, and other activities reasonably related to the review process, and please do not make it available, in whole or in part, to the public. The authors thanks IEEE Transactions in Speech and Audio Processing for their courtesy and professionalism in this...

This article is the authors’ version of Yonetani, Kawashima, Hirayama and Matsuyama: ”Mental Focus Analysis Using the Spatio-temporal Correlation between Visual Saliency and Eye Movements”, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 52(12), (Journal of Information Processing, 20(1), pp.267-276), 2012, http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110008719938. Videos used in this research including Fi...

This page is designed to test your understanding of the concepts covered in this issue and to give you an opportunity to reflect on what you have learnt. The multiple true/false questions were produced in collaboration with the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and the Diagnose This quiz is provided courtesy of the Ophthalmic News and Education (ONE®) Network of the American Academy ...

cysts or oedema, and should prove of great value in research, as in detachment of the retina. ' Professor Goldmann also gave a short talk and demonstration on the aqueous veins which he had discovered shortly after, but independently of, Ascher. We left with the happiest memories of the quiet courtesy of Professor Gold-mann, and with great respect for his ingenuity in diagnostic instrument design.

This research aimed to establish the level of consumer experience with pastoral/spiritual care provision in a large tertiary private hospital. Two hundred and twenty-seven patients and bereaved carers of deceased patients who had received pastoral care were surveyed, with a response rate of 20% (n1⁄4 44). The key finding was the positive impact of pastoral care encounters, with the majority of ...

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This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by John Hilton, On Rest and Pain: Lecture XIV. An accompanying biographical sketch on John Hilton, MD, is available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0927-2 . The Classic Article is reprinted with courtesy from Hilton J. On The Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Val...