Program Overview: This Summit responds to the Child Survival Call to Action/A Promise Renewed. It recognizes that governments, civil society, donors, and others need evidence to inform efficacious, effective, and sustainable policies, strategies, and programs to reduce preventable child deaths and ensure healthy child development. The goal of this Evidence Summit is to provide expert review of ...

The second Controlling the HIV With Antiretrovirals evidence summit was held 22-24 September 2013, in London, England. This preface summarizes the summit's background and key themes, and is an introduction to a series of articles written by select summit faculty and featured in this supplement. In many respects, the supplement can serve as a roadmap for how to move from general consensus around...

Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children', updated some of the data used in May version that was considered by the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children in June 2001. For the most complete and up-to-date data from the end-decade review, please refer to Progress since the World Summit for Children: A statistical review. Detailed country-sp...

Patent claim sentences, despite their legal importance in patent documents, still pose difficul-ties for state-of-the-art statistical machine translation (SMT) systems owing to their extremelengths and their special sentence structure. This paper describes a method for improving thetranslation quality of claim sentences, by taking into account the features specific to the claim<...

After last year’s success at organizing a meeting to commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, Euroscicon expanded its scope to include in-depth discussions on the latest advancements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB, over a threeday long (24th March – 26th March) international conference. It was a well-attended conference comprising of about 30 oral and poster presentations of p...