the uncontrolled spread of illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (asm), popularly termed “galamsey” in ghana, has, for decades, impacted adversely upon water bodies, soils, wildlife, human health, and safety. a lack of understanding, however, of the types of galamsey, their operational attributes, and their relative impacts has unfortunately hindered an effective policy response despite num...

The uncontrolled spread of illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASM), popularly termed “galamsey” in Ghana, has, for decades, impacted adversely upon water bodies, soils, wildlife, human health, and safety. A lack of understanding, however, of the types of galamsey, their operational attributes, and their relative impacts has unfortunately hindered an effective policy response despite num...

Due to a lack of integration between different sensors, false alarms (FA) in the intensive care unit (ICU) are frequent and can lead to reduced standard of care. We present a novel framework for FA reduction using a machine learning approach to combine up to 114 signal quality and physiological features extracted from the electrocardiogram, photoplethysmograph, and optionally the arterial blood...

Abstract This paper traces the conception of “guarding One” ( shou yi 守一 ), an equivalent to “one-practice samādhi ” from East Mountain Teaching dong shan fa men 東山法門 ) in early Chan Buddhism, back Zhuangzi 《莊子》 . “Guarding and “nurturing shen yang 養神 appear frequently context Daoist spiritual training for longevity. In medieval Chinese with influence discourse karma theory India, concept 神 gen...

This paper is based on the neural folding architecture (FA). The FA is a recurrent neural network architecture which is especially suited for adaptive structure processing, i.e. learning approximations of mappings from symbolic term structures to IR n. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the FA can be successfully applied to approximate quantitative structure activity relati...

McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec Correspondence: Dr Peter TK Chan, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Department of Urology, S 6.95, 687 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1. Telephone 514-842-1231 ext 34808, fax 514-843-1552, e-mail [email protected] PTK Chan. Azoospermia – Evaluations and treatments. J Sex Reprod...