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Edge Hill professor appointed new chair of addiction charity to help ambitious growth strategy
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Edge Hill University Professor Derek Heim has been appointed the new chair of UK SMART Recovery, a leading national charity supporting people to overcome addictions.
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Edge Hill Artificial Intelligence expert recognised as an influential scholar
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Edge Hill University’s Professor Yonghuai Liu has been recognised in the top 100 best AI visualisation researchers in the world for his outstanding contribution to the field over the last decade.
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Edge Hill opens its archives to the public for a look at the incredible artefacts it contains
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Edge Hill is opening its archives to the public in a series of special events looking the University’s history, the role it played in expanding opportunities for women and the artefacts it holds.
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Rights based standards for children having a health care procedure (test, treatment, examination, or intervention)
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Standards for children having a health care test, treatment, examination or intervention
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Professor Luminita Paraoan inaugural lecture: Eyesight- seen and unseen
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Eyesight is perceived as the most valuable of sense, but it remains susceptible to deterioration caused by genetics and ageing. Professor Paraoan's talk will concentrate on biological processes involving light sensitive cells at the back of the eye, leading to impairment or loss of vision.
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Professor Marcello Trovati inaugural lecture: Wholes which are more than the sum of their parts- the ubiquity of complex systems
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Professor Marcello Trovati will examine common properties in social networks, human communication, the stock market and the fractal structures of biological systems, all of which can reveal valuable information on the behaviour of large and highly organised entities.
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Professor Nick Hulbert-Williams inaugural lecture: The psychology of living with and beyond cancer - from theory to the real world
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During his talk, Professor Nick Hulbert Williams will give a brief overview of how his early theoretical modelling developed into a series of clinical trials to test psychological interventions to improve the psychological wellbeing of cancer sufferers and survivors.
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Professor Yannis Korkontzelos inaugural lecture: Can machines understand human language?
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Nowadays, data is everywhere. It is generated by multiple sources: humans, applications, systems and processes, at an accelerating pace. In his inaugural lecture Professor Korkontzelos will share his experience and research within this area.
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Professor Yonghuai Liu inaugural lecture: Deep learning- an effective tool for data analysis
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Artificial intelligence is creping into all aspects of our lives. In this talk, Professor Yonghuai Liu will shed light on the idea behind the artificial neural networks and deep learning which seeks to replicate the structure of the human brain using layered, interconnected nodes.
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