OBJECTIVES This paper provides the most complete accounting of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Native outreach since 1995, when there were only a few scattered projects. METHOD The descriptive overview is based on a review of project reports, inventories, and databases and input from the NLM Specialized Information Services Division, National Network Office of the Library Operation...

* Immediate Past Master, Academy of Medicine, Singapore Adjunct Professor of Surgery, National University of Singapore Medical Director, Raffles Hospital, Singapore Address for Reprints: Dr Walter T L Tan, Medical Director’s Office, Raffles Hospital, Level 11, 585 North Bridge Road, Singapore 188770. †Delivered during the 36th Annual Combined Surgical Meeting, Chapter of Surgeons, Academy of Me...

Introduction NIST�s Information Technology Laboratory has two ongoing research projects in computer forensics: the National Software Reference Library (NSRL) project and the Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) project. Funded through NIST�s Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Defen...

every year, for realizing the goals of five-year state civil development plan, a great part of state credits and financial resources are spent for investment in national projects, whilst most of national projects are performed with considerable delay. essential objectives of applying this research is design and explanaion of national projects managers’ competencies model, focusing on risk that ...

Key members: Zoltán Kató [1] Csaba Domokos [2] József Németh [3] Founded by: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) -K75637 & CNK80370 [4] TÁMOP-4.2.2/08/1/2008-0008 and TAMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0005 programs of the Hungarian National Development Agency ContiTech Fluid Automotive Hungária Ltd. PhD Scholarship of the Doctoral School in Computer Science of the University of Szeged National...

Our keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Steven Stanhope, director of the Physical Disabilities Branch at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Stanhope will discuss findings from a series of research projects related to customization and selective laser sintering construction of passive dynamic ankle-foot orthoses to meet a patient’s individual needs and the biomechanical basis for adapted co...

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the Home Office (nor do they reflect Government policy). RDS is part of the Home Office. The Home Off i c e 's purpose is to build a safe, just and tolerant society in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are p roperly balanced and the protection and security of the pu...

This report briefly reviews research progress on vision through learning conducted as a collaborative effort of the GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory and the UMD Computer Vision Laboratory. The report covers work done on the following projects: (1)The Multi-level Image Sampling and Transformation (MIST) methodology for learning image descriptions and transformations (2) Applying the...