Describing the semantics of natural language spatial expressions such as (1) ‘moving forward slowly’ and (2) ‘you’re in front of the desk’ is not a straightforward task. In this paper we describe a setting with a mobile robot where the meanings of such expressions are learned from a set of robot data and natural language descriptions made by a human commentator. We start with simple robot-cente...

that H7386 was deteriorating fast and might have to be destroyed. I had attended the Manchester symposium of Science in Egyptology in 1979 and this encouraged me to suggest that we should unwrap our mummy. Having obtained the consent of Bristol City Council, the owners of the mummy, it was left to me to organise a team of experts from professional colleagues known to me. This was duly done and ...

Despite recent reforms and developments in Medical Education worldwide, a recent commentator described a significant decline in the quality of Libyan Medical Education, due to the lack of curricular reform and leadership [1], which is evidenced by a failure rate of over 50% in some exams [2]. Although this may simply be a reflection of the assessment process used, such failure rates must entail...

'What is it that appears to make the mentally ill so vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation?'(1) One commentator wrote in the 1990s, regarding mental hospitals as repressive, coercive and custodial institutions where medical staff subjected patients to orgies of experimentation. A careful study of surviving documents of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (DCLA), however, paints a different pict...

This article demonstrates how spreadsheets can generate the probability of winning a tennis match conditional on the state of the match. Previous models treat games, sets and matches independently. We show how a series of interconnected sheets can be used to repeat these results. The sheets are used in multimedia to predict outcomes for a match in progress, where it is shown how these predictio...

The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study (CARES) demonstrated that primary care physicians and nurse practitioners who treat injured children find the decision of whether to report suspected abuse difficult. This commentary briefly summarizes and responds to the papers presented at the Child Abuse Recognition, Research, and Education Translation (CARRET) Conference. The commentator traces h...

prominent contemporary jurist and commentator, ayatollah khu’i opines a comprehensive theory about the naskh in al-bayan. he challenges all claims of naskh in quran by setting some conditions, except in one case. considering that the concept of naskh is not an optional concept and it has religious effects, it can be expanded or restricted only with valid evidence and foundations. in this paper,...

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...