The NHS Test and Trace service in England failed to deliver its central promise avoid a second national lockdown there is no clear evidence “unimaginable” costs have been justified, MPs on an influential committee concluded.1 The damning report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee says that must “wean itself off persistent reliance consultants temporary staff.” In early February...

A large amount of valuable information is available in plain text clinical reports. New techniques and technologies are applied to extract information from these reports. One of the leading systems in the cancer community is the Cancer Text Information Extraction System (caTIES), which was developed with caBIG-compliant data structures. caTIES embedded two key components for extracting data: MM...

In the present work we deal with the scattering dispersion and attenuation of elastic waves in different types of nonhomogeneous media. The iterative effective medium approximation based on a single scattering consideration, for the estimation of wave dispersion and attenuation, proposed in Tsinopoulos et al., [Adv. Compos. Lett. 9, 193-200 (2000)] is examined herein not only for solid componen...

Poland syndrome is characterized by unilateral absence or hypoplasia of the pectoralis muscle and variable degree of ipsilateral hand anomalies. Möbius syndrome is a congenital neurological disorder characterized by complete or partial facial paralysis. Although the pathogeneses of these diseases are not well-characterized, diminished blood flow to the affected side is thought to play a role. A...

Kybernetes The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences Selected as the official journal of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics and The Cybernetics Society Access this journal online 1298 Information-energy metasystem model Cadell Last 1310 Non-trivial philosophy: cybernetics, data analytics, and the biophysics of information theory 1331 The role of ex...

The operating costs (in particular pumping costs) of the various water resource systems in South Africa amounts to hundreds of millions of Rands per year and much effort is invested by water resource planners to implement cost saving operating rules that do not jeopardize the long term assurance of supply. The current method of optimisation is through the application of scenario analysis as par...

This document specifies an extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), as defined in [1,2], to expand the amount of useful information carried in RIP messages and to add a measure of security. This memo obsoletes RFC 1388, which specifies an update to the "Routing Information Protocol" STD 34, RFC 1058. The RIP-2 protocol analysis is documented in RFC 1721 [4]. The RIP-2 applicability ...