The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts the scien-tiic operations of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This paper describes several innovative systems which have been developed to support science operations, including proposal selection, planning and scheduling. The application of these techniques to other observatories and spacecraft is discussed as well.

Traditional power networks have been carefully managed at operations centers to ensure adequate power supplies are maintained despite peaks and troughs in demand. Each section of the grid has an operations center that conducts and coordinates various functions including system monitoring, control, crew administration and dispatch. It has been regarded conventionally as “the brain” of the power ...

Fundación CANNA is a nonprofit initiative of CANNA, a multinational company producing high-quality fertilizers for fast growing plants. The Foundation carries out studies and conducts research on cannabis and its active compounds. Fundación CANNA supports different congresses, initiatives, and scientific studies to push forward the knowledge about cannabinoids as a medicine.

We propose a novel MLN-based method that collectively conducts SRL on groups of news sentences. Our method is built upon a baseline SRL, which uses no parsers and leverages redundancy. We evaluate our method on a manually labeled news corpus and demonstrate that news redundancy significantly improves the performance of the baseline, e.g., it improves the F-score from 64.13% to 67.66%. *

The importance of syphilis serological tests demands that laboratory reports are reliable. Internal quality control applied to the organisation of a syphilis serology service improves laboratory bench performance and reporting. Described here are internal quality control procedures of a department that serves a genitourinary medicine clinic and conducts 70 000 tests a year to investigate for sy...

This proposal deals with the optimal design of bi-modal production systems under task time variability. It consists in studying an alternative robust approach for handling uncertainty that conducts us to investigate new industrial combinatorial optimization problems representing an important object of study from both practical and algorithmic points of view and whose efficient resolution is a p...

We summarize an exploratory investigation into using an autonomous conversational agent for improving the communication skills of teenagers with autism. The system conducts a natural conversation with the user and gives real-time and post-session feedback on the user’s nonverbal behavior. We obtained promising results and ideas for improvements in preliminary experiments with five autism spectr...

Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues About HPG The Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute is dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice. It conducts independent research, provides specialist advice and promotes informed debate.

This paper conducts a literature survey of digital watermarks used for images. It describes the previous work done on digital watermarks, including the analysis of various watermarking schemes and their results. Potential applications are discussed, and an implementation plan of the project is presented.

This paper conducts acoustic experiments from a signal processing perspective, to examine the “-/a/ /C_” syllable narrow focus processing strategy of English L2 learners. The research discusses F0, OQ and SQ as key phonatory acoustic parameters. L2 strategies are examined by measuring deviations from L1 group to L2 group. The matrix distance reflects L1’s traces in the interlanguage system.