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		<title>Upgrade Thesis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last friday, I had the transfer VIVA for to upgrade from MPhil to PhD student. My project consists of designing a phantom test to evaluate image processing methods on multi-spectral images of Palimpsestic documents. The examiners were Prof. Daniel Alexander from CMIC and Simon Mahony from the UCLDH, they had some very insightful comments and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Last friday, I had the transfer VIVA for to upgrade from MPhil to PhD student. My project consists of designing a phantom test to evaluate image processing methods on multi-spectral images of Palimpsestic documents. The examiners were <a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.alexander/">Prof. Daniel Alexander</a> from <abbr title="Centre for Medical Image Computing"><a href="http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/">CMIC</a></abbr> and <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/simon-mahony/">Simon Mahony</a> from the <abbr title="Centre for Digital Humanities"><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/">UCLDH</a></abbr>, they had some very insightful comments and suggestions. It is great finishing this phase of my research project.</p>
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		<title>Government drug adviser David Nutt sacked &#124; Politics &#124; guardian.co.uk</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Nutt asked to resign after his claims that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol Garside added: “I’m shocked and dismayed that the home secretary appears to believe that political calculation trumps honest and informed scientific opinion. The message is that when it comes to the Home Office’s relationship with the research [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Professor David Nutt asked to resign after his claims that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Garside added: “I’m shocked and dismayed that the home secretary appears to believe that political calculation trumps honest and informed scientific opinion. The message is that when it comes to the Home Office’s relationship with the research community honest researchers should be seen but not heard.<br />
<cite>- via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/30/drugs-adviser-david-nutt-sacked">Government drug adviser David Nutt sacked | Politics | guardian.co.uk</a>.</cite></p></blockquote>
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