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Introduction Recent natural and man-made disastrous events underscore the importance of emergency evacuation planning and management for buildings and facilities (Averill et al., 2005). Although building codes include provisions for egress design, their prescriptive nature poses many limitations in terms of providing effective evacuation for specific buildings, each of which is unique. Human be...

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SPOTLIGHT REVIEW Research priorities in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies

Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiology, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Referral Ce...

Research Spotlight: A New Approach to Price Measures for Health Care

AS HEALTH CARE spending continues to grow, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) plans to develop a health care satellite account, which is a de­ tailed set of statistics that would allow economists to better assess health care spending and the effects on the U.S. economy. In particular, the planned health care account would provide statistics that allow health economists to better analyze the ...

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...