Dedication To My Parents For their love, sacrifice, encouragement, and patience and Ajji Whose memories shall always be with me iv Acknowledgments My advisor, Prof. Tom Little, has constantly inspired me to set high goals for myself and helped me attain them. Ever since I became a member of the Multimedia Communications Laboratory, Tom has enthusiastically guided my research and was patient as ...

We show that the full version of the so-called ‘rural hospital theorem’ (Roth, 1986) generalizes to many-to-many matching where agents on both sides of the market have separable and substitutable preferences.

In 2002 the Department for Transport (Df T) added a requirement to the 2010 casualty reduction target to tackle the significantly higher incidence in disadvantaged communities. In October 2002, the Government launched the £17 million Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI). Fifteen local authorities, mainly in the north of England, with high casualty rates and levels of deprivation were inv...

Commissioning is the process by which PCTs identify the health needs of their population and make prioritized decisions to secure care to meet those needs within available resources. It includes longer term strategic planning, medium term planning (three year Local delivery Plans) and the shorter term agreement and performance management of service level agreements. The process should involve t...

The analysis of randomised controlled trials by subgroups of individuals (e.g. according to age or gender) remains controversial and often misinterpreted. It is recognised that such analyses should be limited to a few pre-specified key baseline factors. In addition an appropriate analysis typically calculates effect estimates and confidence intervals within such subgroups together with an overa...

Does the future of bioengineering lie in models or experiments? The long-standing debate on how and how much experimental and theoretical research in our field should cooperate can shape the future. This debate means often a choice, early in the bioengineer’s career. A bioengineer may prefer to address scientific questions based on experimental tests, or on computational and theoretical analyse...

This paper describes a pilot study with a computed-assisted translation workbench aiming at testing the integration of online and active learning features. We investigate the effect of these features on translation productivity, using interactive translation prediction (ITP) as a baseline. User activity data were collected from five beta testers using key-logging and eye-tracking. User feedback...

For many years, computer scientists have been concerned with whether computers can think. Considerable thought, therefore, goes into designing “thinking” computer systems and into wondering whether they really can think or just pretend to. On the other hand, it is “obvious” that humans can think, and therefore little thought has gone into the related question, “can humans think?” This paper exp...