global health 2035, the report of the lancet commission on investing in health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. it showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

The environmental sustainability has grasped tremendous attention of the government in recent years and different policies have been proposed and implemented to address this issue. One of the most widespread policies to foster environmental sustainability is the government’s supports for the purchases of hybrid vehicles. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides tax credits amounting to $3000 at m...

We propose using the Deep Recurrent Attentive Writer (DRAW) network [1] for texture synthesis. We managed to train and deploy DRAW tensorflow implementation. Simple texture synthesis experiments were evaluated to verify the idea validity. Figure 1 shows a sample result for a tilted chess board texture. The generated tiles not only capture the correct texture but also aligns smoothly with the ce...

This report summarizes progress on Washington University’s Terabit Burst Switching Project, supported by DARPA and Rome Air Force Laboratory. This project seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of Burst Switching, a new data communication service which can more effectively exploit the large bandwidths becoming available in WDM transmission systems, than conventional communication technologies lik...

Open Research Problems including Integrating NLP with Database Technology Using the Database Schema to Drive the Discovery of Structure Making Use of Discovered Data and Ontologies to Support Queries Against Text Data Using Discovered Facts to Extend and Enhance Instance Data Using Discovered Structure to Extend the Database Schema and Developing a Workbench for Database Driven Structure Discovery

In this progress report we begin evaluation of how well-suited Høgh Jensen and Milner’s bigraphical reactive systems (BRSs) [JM04] are for modelling context-aware computing in ubiquitous systems. In this work we concentrate on the location aspect of context. First, we introduce the setting, motivate our work, and state our hypothesis. Then we present a digest of the research literature on locat...

Parsing techniques based on rules defining grammaticality are difficult to use with authentic inputs, which are often grammatically messy. Instead, the APRIL system seeks a labelled tree su~cture which maximizes a numerical measure of conformity to statistical norms derived flom a sample of parsed text. No distinction between legal and illegal trees arises: any labelled tree has a value. Becaus...