The automated localisation of damage in structures is a challenging but critical ingredient the path towards predictive or condition-based maintenance high value structures. use acoustic emission time arrival mapping promising approach to this challenge, severely hindered by need collect dense set artificial measurements across structure, resulting lengthy and often impractical data acquisition...

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY The James Lind Alliance (JLA) brings patients, carers and clinicians together in Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) to identify and prioritise shared uncertainties about the effects of treatment. The JLA emerged from the evidence-informed healthcare movement to address a concern that the research being carried out on treatment effectiveness is not that of most importance...

Laurel Gleason contends that deliberative polling constrains the autonomy of participants and substitutes the ideas and agendas of ‘‘experts’’ for those of the deliberators. However, the format and informational constraints faced by participants in deliberative forums are no worse, and are in many ways better, than those faced by ordinary citizens. The real problem with deliberative polls is th...