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BACKGROUND Chip pan fires are responsible for 25% of fire related injury in the UK, despite government strategies to encourage safer frying. To establish the feasibility of promoting oven ready chips (fries), the residents in a materially deprived ward of London were surveyed. Sample frame: 1073 of 2145 households participating in a randomised controlled trial. RESULTS Approximately half of t...

I provide several lessons learned from running a number of conference program committees over the past decade, as well as some additional thoughts on conference organization and the reviewing process. Topics include how to deal with poor or absent reviewers, inbreeding among PC members, starting a new conference, and several other issues.

In this paper, we demonstrated that 1-3 PZT/polymer composites, fabricated using PZT-4 ceramic and a polymer possessing a high glass transition temperature and low loss, can be used as high power ultrasonic transducer materials for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) applications. The mechanical quality factor of the 1-3 composite with 64% ceramic volume fraction is over 200. The dielectri...

( acoustic observations, modeling subphonetic acoustic events e.g., closures, bursts, transitions). Current HMM-based r " speech recognition systems typically model phonetic units, o phones" (e.g., the sound "m" in the word "map"), with a e c sequence of such states. Sequences of phone models can b oncatenated to form word models. Word models can be e n connected according to grammatical constr...

The objective of the present project is to uses a new techniques for steganography in a HSI color cover images, which hides secret message in the edges of the carrier images using 2-bit LSB substitution for embedding. To get true edges, canny edge detection technique has been used. Amount of data to be embedded plays an important role on the selection of edges. The main advantage of using HIS c...

By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is guided by the following hypothesis: Different social configurations support a variety of social learning activities. The social configuration of OEPs i...