Forget the Laboratory Report?

The Virus Reference Laboratory (Report)

POLIOMYELITIS, ASEPTIC MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS, 1955, 1956 AND 1957. Paralytic Poliomyelitis. The laboratory diagnosis of poliomyelitis has been undertaken in the department since August, 1955. Our aim has been to receive specimens from all notified paralytic cases, and in practice, thanks to the co-operation of the physicians, we have received specimens from over (seems) 95 per cent. of th...

Bordetella pertussis, an agent not to forget: a case report

INTRODUCTION In the past, pertussis affected particularly children under 6 years of age, but recent trends show that there is a shift toward the older age group. The clinical presentation can be atypical in the adolescent age group, and the disease is often misdiagnosed. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of an 11-year-old male patient oriented to our unit with anorexia, weight loss and pers...

Forget It!

We encountered the need for a theory of forgetting in our work on Cognitive Robotics. 1 In our effort to control an autonomous robot, we imagine the robot has a knowledge base representing the initial world state. As the robot performs actions, she needs to bring the knowledge base up to date. To do so, she needs to forget about all the facts that are no longer true, and in such a way that this...

The Tunbridge Report and the laboratory.

The Forget-me-not Process

We introduce the Forget-me-not Process, an efficient, non-parametric metaalgorithm for online probabilistic sequence prediction for piecewise stationary, repeating sources. Our method works by taking a Bayesian approach to partitioning a stream of data into postulated task-specific segments, while simultaneously building a model for each task. We provide regret guarantees with respect to piecew...