Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects have rarely gone on to influence larger policy and programme development. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because...

Diagnostic brain MRI scans are usually performed by trained medical technologists who manually prescribe the position and orientation of a scanning volume. In this study, a fully automatic computer algorithm is described which compensates for variable patient positioning and acquires brain MRI scans in a predefined reference orientation. The method involves acquiring a rapid water-only pilot sc...

In this paper, we give an overview of our automatic computation and data decomposition scheme in the EPPP compiler 1 for distributed memory machines. Such automatic techniques can be also be used in compilers for programminglanguages such as HPF (High-Performance Fortran) in conjunction with the user-speciied data distribution directives. A pilot EPPP compiler has been implemented and prelimina...

We describe a progression fiom pilot studies to development and use of domain-spec fzc verification and validation (V& v ) automation. Our domain is the testing of an AIplanning system that forms a key component of an autonomous spacecraft. We used pilot studies to ascertain opportunities for, and suitability OJ; automating various analyses whose results would contribute to V& V in our domain. ...

This paper outlines the growing need to provide fast and low cost methods for providing transcripts of audio and video media to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. Outlined are three different methods for creating such transcripts including traditional manual transcription and two automatic speech recognition (ASR) methods: a semi-automatic process called shadowing and a web-based automati...