Positive Oral Food Challenge, Shall We Stop or Continue?

Shall we stop or continue angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers prior to using contrast agents?

Shall We Stop All Unsolicited Email Messages?

Spam is commonly defined as unsolicited email messages, and the goal of spam filtering is to eliminate these messages. In this paper, we argue that not all unsolicited email messages are useless to recipients, and dropping all unsolicited messages is not optimal for either the recipient or the sender. Increasing the sender’s cost (with stamps, puzzles or tarpits) has been another approach aimed...

When is an oral food challenge positive?

Oral food challenges still remain the gold standard in the diagnosis of food related symptoms and are performed to obtain a clear 'yes or no' response. However, this is often difficult to achieve, and so proposals may be appropriate for criteria on when to stop oral food challenges. In daily practice it makes sense to challenge until clear objective symptoms occur without harming the patient. C...

Taking Renin-Angiotensin Drugs in Patients with COVID-19: Start, Continue, or Stop; a Literature Review

  Considering the pandemic of the COVID-19 disease, the use of various drugs in patients has been investigated. Recently, numerous studies have been done on the effectiveness of drugs which used to treat the underlying disease such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, as well as coronary artery disease in various countries, because the patients with underlying conditions are more likely ...

Continue or Stop Reading? Modeling Decisions in Information Search

This paper presents a cognitive computational model of the way people read a paragraph with the task of quickly deciding whether it is better related to a given goal than another paragraph processed previously. In particular, the model attempts to predict the time at which participants would decide to stop reading the current paragraph because they have enough information to make their decision...