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Open AccessThe FuturICT education accelerator
Education is a major force for economic and social wellbeing. Despite high aspirations, education at all levels can be expensive and ineffective. Three Grand Challenges are identified: (1) enable people to le...
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Water Resources Management Under Possible Future Climate and Land Use Changes: The Application of the Integrated Hydrological Modelling System, IHMS
The Integrated Hydrological Modelling System, IHMS, has been developed to study the impact of climate and land use changes on water resources. The system comprises three models: the distributed catchment scale...
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Object-Oriented Modelling as a Decision-Making Tool in Agriculturally Overexploited Karstic Aquifers
Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks (OOBNs) utilise the power of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and offer a novel approach to the problems of integrated water management. This paper describes the building of ...
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197 Double Trouble: A Case of Proximal Tubular Dysgenesis in a Donor Survivor of Twin-To-Twin Transfusin Syndrome
Background: In twin pregnancies complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) blood passes through unidirectional vascular shunts from the donor to the recipient twin. The donor twin consequently exh...
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Conclusions and Recommendations
A lively and constructive discussion followed the presentations made in each of the five technical sessions of the workshop. A concluding session was also held, at the end of the meeting, during which previous...
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Penacée: A Neural Net System for Recognizing On-Line Handwriting
We report on progress in handwriting recognition and signature verification. Our system, which uses pen-trajectory information, is suitable for use in pen-based computers. It has a multimodular architecture wh...
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Neural Network Applications in Character Recognition and Document Analysis
Character Recognition has served as one of the principal proving grounds for neural-net methods and has emerged as one of the most successful applications of this technology. This chapter outlines optical char...
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Transfer, Storage, Shipment
During the manufacture of chemicals, wastes are produced at the chemical production plant, at plants using chemical products and by the consumers of the products. Storage, handling and transport of wastes occu...