An otherwise promising business, political, or military strategy can be crippled by an incomplete understanding of the social-cultural factors that define and influence a region. Such omissions are sometimes due to oversight, but often stem from a fundamental lack of understanding of how to model such difficult and unfamiliar concepts. The information required to generate useful contextual mode...

Introduction This document has been written to provide a description of some algorithms that are the frequently used in TINA [6], but would be considered too simple to be published. The common characteristic of these techniques is that they have relatively well defined statistical properties, allowing them to be used as useful intermediate stages in an image processing system. Motivation Many c...

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) has been shown to be an useful and cost effective intervention that increases cognition and quality of life of people with mild to moderate dementia. It is increasing in popularity in the UK and worldwide, and a number of research teams have examined its effectiveness in other contexts and cultures. However, it is necessary to develop clear evidence-based gui...

The presence of Streptococcus mutuns in dental plaque may be related to human dental caries. The cultural identification of this organism in plaque is not likely to be used routinely in a clinical or epidemiological situation. In an effort to develop a simpler diagnostic means of identifying Strep. mutans in plaque, antisera were prepared for the 5 known serotypes of Strep. mutuns. These immune...

This paper describes recent work concerned with the spe-ciication of requirements on interactive systems and the deenition of user-level properties of such systems. A formal notation for describing and reasoning about the behaviour of systems and emergent properties is discussed, along with a technique that uses the formalism to investigate the resilience of systems to operator errors. These te...