ArticlePDF Available

WONCA Europe 2009: reflections and personal highlights

December 2009
London Journal of Primary Care 2(2):169-71

DOI:10.1080/17571472.2009.11493277

Source
PubMed

Authors:

Luisa Pettigrew

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Show all 6 authorsHide

Why this matters to us: In April 2009 we launched the RCGP Junior International Committee, the UK representative body to the Vasco da Gama Movement. Since then we have worked hard to establish a network of UK trainees and junior GPs with an interest in international primary care, as well as promote international exchange and research. This year's WONCA Europe conference was a great success for the group with the presence of a strong UK contingent. We hope to repeat this success next year and inspire an even greater number of trainees and junior GPs to take part in international conferences and clinical exchange.

Content uploaded by Luisa Pettigrew

Content may be subject to copyright.

A preview of the PDF is not available

ResearchGate has not been able to resolve any citations for this publication.

ResearchGate has not been able to resolve any references for this publication.

Chapter

Coleridge’s Christology

January 1990

Graham Davidson

In his book, Coleridge and the Idea of Love, which has been a valuable aid to my study, A. J. Harding at one point asserts that ‘Coleridge’s concern in Aids to Reflection is … not personal salvation … but relationship’.1 This is true so long as we remember that in this context ‘personal’ is to all intents equivalent to phenomenal: for individual salvation was Coleridge’s prime concern, but it was ... [Show full abstract] of the noumenal and not of the phenomenal self. That we may confuse these two aspects of self, and are tempted to think that our desire for the one is aspiration to the other was, for Coleridge, nothing but an insidious fact of our nature, and a prime example of original sin at work in us. Don Juan is the archetype of all those people whose desire that others should love them is not the hope of realizing their permanent being, but the hope that love will immortalize their peculiar and phenomenal self: … it is among the miseries, and abides in the dark ground-work of our nature, to crave an outward confirmation of that something within us, which is our very self … Love me and not my qualities, may be a vicious and insane wish, but it is not a wish wholly without a meaning. [BLC II 216–17]

Article

Full-text available

Label optimal regret bounds for online local learning

March 2015

We resolve an open question from (Christiano, 2014b) posed in COLT'14 regarding the optimal dependency of the regret achievable for online local learning on the size of the label set. In this framework the algorithm is shown a pair of items at each step, chosen from a set of n items. The learner then predicts a label for each item, from a label set of size L and receives a real valued payoff. ... [Show full abstract] This is a natural framework which captures many interesting scenarios such as collaborative filtering, online gambling, and online max cut among others. (Christiano, 2014a) designed an efficient online learning algorithm for this problem achieving a regret of

O(\sqrt{nL^3T})

, where T is the number of rounds. Information theoretically, one can achieve a regret of

O(\sqrt{n \log L T})

. One of the main open questions left in this framework concerns closing the above gap. In this work, we provide a complete answer to the question above via two main results. We show, via a tighter analysis, that the semi-definite programming based algorithm of (Christiano, 2014a), in fact achieves a regret of

O(\sqrt{nLT})

. Second, we show a matching computational lower bound. Namely, we show that a polynomial time algorithm for online local learning with lower regret would imply a polynomial time algorithm for the planted clique problem which is widely believed to be hard. We prove a similar hardness result under a related conjecture concerning planted dense subgraphs that we put forth. Unlike planted clique, the planted dense subgraph problem does not have any known quasi-polynomial time algorithms. Computational lower bounds for online learning are relatively rare, and we hope that the ideas developed in this work will lead to lower bounds for other online learning scenarios as well.

Conference Paper

Vibration suppression of galvano mirror considering whirling of shaft

August 2015

Main movement of a galvano mirror is the rolling motion. However, since the structure of galvano mirror is cantilever, this mirror is vertically vibrated to mirror reflective surface. This paper considers the suppression of the above vibration, which is called pitching vibration. Although the galvano mirror is equipped with an encoder to detect the roll angle of mirror, the pitching vibration of ... [Show full abstract] mirror cannot be detected. To overcome this problem, the pitching vibration is verified by the frequency response and the time response using two dimensional position sensitive detector. Moreover, three rubbers with different hardness are inserted on the basis of a structure of the motor shaft in order to suppress the vibration.

Article

Towards a Trauma Network: An Interview with Professor Keith Porter

October 2010 · Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Matthew Worrall

Arriving at Selly Oak rail station in Birmingham it is hard to avoid the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), which dominates the Birmingham skyline and will form a prime hub of the new trauma network for the West Midlands. However, on the day I visit Keith Porter, Professor of Clinical Traumatology with University Hospitals Birmingham, the famous old Selly Oak site is in its last few ... [Show full abstract] days before the move to this new state-of-the-art centre.

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024