SatNEx aims to overcome the fragmentation in Europe’s satellite communications research by bringing together Europe’s leading academic institutions and research organisations in a cohesive and durable way. This paper gives an overview over the first two phases of the SatNEx Network of Excellence project, as well as an outlook to the extension, SatNEx-III, planned for the years 2009 – 2012. Keyw...

The number of older prisoners is increasing and, with reforms in the prison health service, there is a requirement to provide equity of access to standard healthcare services. The health of older prisoners is often poor, with high levels of psychiatric and physical illnesses, compounded by poor access to appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement services. A recent case presenting to our depar...

It appears that fourteen years ago the Legislative Act establishing this Board enjoined upon its members the following charge : " They shall investigate and supervise the whole system of the public charitable and correctional institutions of the Commonwealth, and shall recommend such changes and additional provisions as they may deem necessary for their economical and efficient administration."...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...