WHOLESALE LEAD POISONING AT SHEFFIELD.

Wholesale Poisoning at a Wedding Feast

at the wedding and sat down to the banquet in the afternoon ; of these 110 fewer than forty were subsequently seized with symptoms of irritant poisoning, the time of onset varying from four to sixteen hours after the meal. Five of the persons so attacked had died up to the date when the facts were placed 011 record, and as that was only some ten days after the occurrence, it is possible that ot...

Lead poisoning. Are your children at risk?

Lead Poisoning at an Indoor Firing Range

In March 2014, a 39-year-old Korean male presented with a 6-month history of various nonspecific symptoms including dizziness, fatigue, asthenia, irritability, elevated blood pressure, palpitation, eyestrain, and tinnitus. His occupational history revealed that he had been working as an indoor firing range manager for 13 months; therefore, he was subjected to a blood lead level (BLL) test. The ...

Sheffield at ImageCLEF 2003

In this paper, we use the Systran machine translation system for translating queries for cross language image retrieval in a pilot experiment at CLEF 2003, called ImageCLEF. The approach we have taken is to assume we have little experience in CLIR, few available resources and a limited time in which to create a working CLIR system for this task. In this preliminary study, we investigate the eff...

iCLEF at Sheffield

Sheffield’s contribution to the interactive cross language information retrieval track took the approach of comparing user’s abilities at judging the relevance of machine translated French documents against ones written in the users’ native language: English. Conducting such an experiment is challenging, and the issues surrounding the experimental design are discussed. Experimental results stro...