In Essex, EssexITS (a joint partnership of Essex County Council, Atkins and Siemens), has taken a hands-on approach to assist the County Council in carrying out its responsibility under TMA2004. EssexITS has developed a number of Integrated Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) strategies to manage Essex’s road network, tackle congestion and proactively prevent or reduce the effect of con...

BACKGROUND Scoliosis is the most debilitating issue in SMA type 2 patients. No evidence confirms the efficacy of Garches braces (GB) to delay definitive spinal fusion. OBJECTIVE Compare orthopedic and pulmonary outcomes in children with SMA type 2 function to management. METHOD We carried out a monocentric retrospective study on 29 SMA type 2 children who had spinal fusion between 1999 and ...

Agents with incomplete knowledge of their actions can either plan around the incompleteness, learn by querying a domain expert, or learn through trial and error. In deciding what to learn, an agent must consider whether an incomplete action feature is relevant to achieving its goals. In deciding how to learn an action feature, the agent can i) try to execute the action and passively observe the...

Nowadays, business processes are being digitized across all industries [5]. Just-in-time manufacturing and mass customization generate vast amounts of data at a faster pace than ever. Specialization and outsourcing multiply the number of actors involved in business exchanges. Data management is adapting to these trends: data quality is assured proactively and data is increasingly considered a s...

Crops that have been genetically modified (GM) to be tolerant to herbicides have been widely grown in the USA since 1996. The rapid and widespread adoption of this technology reflects the important economic and environmental benefits that farmers have derived from its use (equal to $21.7 billion additional farm income and a 225 million kg reduction in herbicide active ingredient use 1996-2012)....