The Southwest Test Workshop is the only IEEE sponsored event with a primary focus on testing microelectronic devices at the wafer level. The 1997 workshop was held in San Diego, California from Sunday, June 1 to Wednesday, June 4. Over four hundred test professionals listened to 7 technical sessions with 3 to 4 presentations per session, and they participated in four panel or open discussions. ...

Although there have been many experimental systems for natural-language access to databases, with some now going into actual use, many problems in this area remain to be solved. The purpose of this panel is to put some of those problems before the conference. The panel's motivation stems partly from the fact that, too often in the past, discussion of natural-language access to databases has foc...

Contributors to this panel discussion were asked to reflect, in less than 3,000 words, ‘on how, specifically or generally, Innovation Studies (broadly defined) might have or already does have potential for yielding distinctive critical perspectives or data (broadly defined) on issues beyond Innovation (or Science & Technology Studies). The intention is to use the Panel to generate discussions w...

This paper presents a method for estimating a class of panel data duration models, under which an unknown transformation of the duration variable is linearly related to the observed explanatory variables and the unobserved heterogeneity ~or frailty! with completely known error distributions+ This class of duration models includes a panel data proportional hazards model with fixed effects+ The p...

The statement that follows highlights the expert panel presentations, discussions, and conclusions, and is intended to provide meaningful guidance to oncologists and other practicing physicians and to the payer community as they move forward to keep pace with new cancer diagnostics, biologic therapies, and disease management techniques to improve cancer care and achieve quality patient outcomes.

Winter for useful discussions and critical comments on the editorial. I am also indebted to all participants of ICIS 2007 panel on Data Rich and Poor disciplines (Avital et al. 2007), and Senior Editors of JAIS who provided early comments and criticism on the JAIS data policies.

This paper summarizes the presentation and discussions at the panel session held at the conclusion of the GREC’07 workshop. After making a short review of where the graphics recognition stands, we raise some questions (hopefully) of interest for the future of this community.

INTRODUCTION Melasma is one of the most common pigmentary disorders seen by dermatologists and often occurs among women with darker complexion (Fitzpatrick skin type IV-VI). Even though melasma is a widely recognized cause of significant cosmetic disfigurement worldwide and in India, there is a lack of systematic and clinically usable treatment algorithms and guidelines for melasma management. ...