When the discussion turns to the creation of a European Research Council (ERC), a series of questions spring to mind. Answering some of them is now almost trivial—for example, “Why is an ERC needed and timely?”— whereas the answers to others, being more political, are certainly more difficult to envisage for most practising scientists. This is notably the case for the questions: “Who will be th...

WASHINGTON (.fl The Supreme Court Monday barred draft exemptions lor men who claim conscientious objections to the lndochina war but not to all wars. The 8-1 ruling. based on what Justice Thurgood Marshall called a straightforward reading of Selective Service law, closes the door on Roman Catholics who subscribe to the "just war" doctrine as well as to other selective objectors. Marshall said t...

Bill payment is a part of mobile banking solution provided by banks to its consumers. Traditionally biller data and payment details are entered manually by the consumer on banking application. We have ideated and prototyped a mobile based application for reading bill related details from their image data. Image data is captured using the mobile based application which is cleaned and converted t...

The Mental Treatment Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on November 19th, 1929, and was read a third time in that House and the first time in the House of Commons before the Christmas holidays. The Government may be congratulated on the promptitude with which it has directed its attention to this matter and still more on the broadminded attitude which it has adopted in translating the ...