A place cell system is developed that is able to provide robust localisation using simple sonar information only. The system uses egocentric view cells, based on the Adaptive Response Function Neuron, as sensory input to correct for path integration errors. The major advantage of this system is that place field centres are fixed prior to training, allowing downstream navigational systems to mak...

"The many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers who passed through their training in child guidance under his directorship, have reason to remember his fatherly kindness and the steadfastness and good humour with which he watched over their professional development. He stood the brunt of the early days of struggle to win recognition for the value of child gu...

Since its inception, COHSASA has focused on providing South African solutions for South African problems. This has resulted in the development of facilitated accreditation programmes for South African healthcare facilities that enable specific identification of areas of strength and deficiency. Through a process of ongoing training, monitoring and evaluation, skills transfer to local staff enab...

to study aspects of archivists of central archive and information production unit of islamic republic of iran broadcasting of necessity and significance of in-service training. this survey was performed that viewpoints of 29 archivists among some 40 body in his two centres (%72.5 of total community) was evaluated. all members of this community acknowledged that in-service training is necessary ...

A number of strategies have been proposed by various organizations and governments for rationalizing the use of drugs in developing countries. Such strategies include the use of essential drug lists, generic prescribing, and training in rational prescribing. None of these require doctors to become actively involved in the management of the drug supply to their health centres. In 1997, in the Ka...

The paper deals with a new computerized dialogue system for city information centres. The overview of dialogue system architecture is presented. The corpus of recorded sentences is shortly introduced. The basic principles of generation of sentence templates and generation of training sentences are described. The method of dialogue simulation is introduced. The main attention is paid to domain a...

Médecins Sans Frontières was there at the start of the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa and has played a pivotal role in the global response—building health centres, training care staff, and even advising the United Nations, writes Sophie Arie. The charity has decades of experience in bringing volunteer doctors to where they are needed in emergency situations and for longer term humanitari...

1. The Chinese Work Personality Profile is a reliable and valid instrument in measurement of job maintenance skills and employment potential of people with psychiatric illness. 2. There are significant differences in the job maintenance skill profiles of people undergoing rehabilitation in day hospitals, day training centres, and sheltered employment. 3. Situational assessment could be useful t...