Abstracts
Oral Presentations
Importance of biomarkers in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
Disease | Pablo Suarez Benitez
While in 2014 the deaths caused by cancer doubled that of
dementia, by the year 2040 the latter is expected to surpass
the former, with its mortality set to quadruple. In light of these
statistics it is important to analyse closely the available biomarkers
to detect Alzheimer’s disease promptly. It has been proven that
the survival rate is much greater in cases of early detection
based on application of prophylactic treatments and adopting
different lifestyle techniques. Therefore, the purpose of this
review is to delve in the role of available biomarkers, evaluate their
effectiveness and investigate improvements or new biomarkers.
How AI will change how we create stories | Joseph Biggs
AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning are concepts and
systems for providing a new paradigm for solving some of the
most complex problems facing humanity. In this presentation, the
positive and negative aspects of AI and machine learning on the
role of authors and stories will be discussed. One of the advantages
of utilising AI within storytelling will be the ability to shape the
story in ways in which we have not considered. However, with
anything there are negatives such as how this could create a world
in which literary creativity is dead due to the proliferation of AI’s.
As bad as Auschwitz? British concentration camps during the
Second Boer War and modern-day equivalence to the camps of
the Nazi regime | Owen Brown
During the Second Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) in what is present-
day South Africa, the British Army founded a series of refugee
and internment camps, often pointed to as the first modern
concentration camps. Although the overwhelming number of
casualties stemmed from malnutrition and disease due to neglect,
there is a modern tendency to view these places as the first death
camps, comparable to those erected by the Nazi regime some 40
years later. This presentation will seek to assess the validity of
this comparison, furthermore to examine the state of the British
concentration camp in relation to the modern world.
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