Today Fiona has broken down. She starts to sob as :soon as we are all seated and she tries to talk through the sobbing and she half-covers her face and her body rocks backwards and forwards in anguish. "They say it's a very big operation...

This report outlines the content of a one-day workshop on Generic Medicines that was held at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal on 13(th) December 2010, which was attended by 32 delegates from different institutions in Nepal, including pharmacists, pharmacologists and medical doctors. Right medicine, right patient, right dose, right frequency and duration, right information and right monitor...

Sophisticated wave models like the Wave Model (WAM) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN)/ WAVEWATCH are used nowadays along with atmospheric models to produce forecasts of ocean wave conditions. These models are generally run operationally on large ocean-scale domains. In many coastal areas, on the other hand, operational forecasting is not performed for a variety of reasons, yet the need for ...

While scoring strategies and player performance in cricket have been studied, there has been little published work about the influence of batting order with respect to One-Day cricket. We apply a mathematical modelling approach to compute efficiently the expected performance (runs distribution) of a cricket batting order in an innings. Among other applications, our method enables one to solve f...

The big ideas to write about in this introductory section is a) this is an improvement over prior MEF version that was based upon training models to detect new viruses using examples of known viruses and known benign attachments. This is hard to do in practice since one needs good examples of benign attachments that may be hard to sample, and also expensive in practice and b) this version train...

Winning a One Day International (ODI) cricket match depends on various factors related to scoring as well as the athletic strengths of the two teams. While some of these factors have been well analyzed in the literature, others have yet to be investigated. In this analysis, statistical significance for a range of variables that could explain the outcome of an ODI cricket match is explored. In p...

In this paper we introduce a novel method to perform topic detection in Twitter based on the recent and novel technique of Joint Complexity. Instead of relying on words as most other existing methods which use bag-ofwords or n-gram techniques, Joint Complexity relies on String Complexity which is defined as the cardinality of a set of all distinct factors, subsequences of characters, of a given...

It is heartening to mention here that the Chandigarh Region Innovation & Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) is accelerating its programs to “promote and sustain excellence in research” in tricity. The CRIKC initiative (http://crikc. puchd.ac.in) included a 1 day workshop on Technical Advances in Retinal Imaging held Under on 11th February 2015 in Zoology auditorium, Punjab University. This was an approp...

In this paper, we consider the problem of 24-hour ahead short-term load forecasting; the formulation is based on the nonlinear Kalman filtering. Our formulation takes into account weather conditions as well as previous trends. Effects of weather as well as prior consumptions are nonlinear functions; hence our choice. We compare our proposed method with the standard Kalman filtering approach and...

Any assumption that smoking less protects against heart disease or stroke has been dispelled this week in the BMJ (doi:10.1136/ bmj.j5855). In a large meta-analysis of observational studies, Hackshaw and colleagues show the unexpected extent to which smoking even one cigarette a day is associated with major cardiovascular risk. The results are compelling. Smoking one cigarette a day was associa...