Not so long ago, using maps on the Web was difficult. If you could find them at all, they were ugly and slow to load and came with clunky user interfaces. This has all changed thanks to the Google Map service. In recent years, commercial sites such as Amazon, eBay, and Google have increasingly become platforms that support complex user ecosystems. Using openly published APIs, you can look up an...

Taking the conference motto as a theme, this papers examines the good, the bad, and the ugly bits of TEX’s math typesetting engine and the related topic of math fonts. Unlike previous discussions of math fonts, which have often focussed on glyph sets and font encodings, this paper concentrates on the technical requirements for math fonts, trying to clarify what makes implementing math fonts so ...

In this column, I summarize the 12 worst of the most common requirements engineering problems I have observed over many years working on and with real projects as a requirements engineer, consultant, trainer, and evaluator. I also list the negative consequences of these problems, and most importantly suggest some industry best practices that can help you avoid these problems, or at least fix th...

Bile acids, amphipathic end products of cholesterol metabolism, are "good" in the infant because they enhance lipid absorption and thereby promote growth. Bile acids also induce bile flow and biliary lipid secretion. The enterohepatic circulation of bile acids is "bad" in the adult because it downregulates hepatocyte low-density lipoprotein receptor activity and thereby elevates plasma choleste...

The East Sussex Hospital at Hastings has recently moved from the Parade to a delightful new building, which stands above the White Rock Gardens, with a fine view overlooking the sea. It now possesses a beautiful little chapel for the patients and nurses, a photograph of which we reproduce. The hospital much needed a chapel in the actual building for both the staff and the patients, as it is a c...

MODERATOR: I’m absolutely delighted that we have such a distinguished speaker to address us at this morning’s session. Professor Malcolm Sears is one of those individuals who, I think we can honestly sa3~ in his career in medicine has made a very important contribution in his specific area, that being in the whole area of identifying the changing trends in asthma mortali~. Dr. Sears is a distin...

Most of today’s buildings will still be in use 2050 and upgrades should therefore contribute to reducing energy consumption carbon footprint. This paper addresses a challenge for upgrading basement exterior walls single-family dwellings, where ordinary retrofit insulation can lead the wall protruding from existing outer wall. For some, this an aesthetic barrier upgrade (an “ugly” solution). Sup...

Current approaches to aesthetic image analysis either provide accurate or interpretable results. To get both accuracy and interpretability, we advocate the use of learned visual attributes as mid-level features. For this purpose, we propose to discover and learn the visual appearance of attributes automatically, using the recently introduced AVA database which contains more than 250,000 images ...