Direct, official contact between leaders took place in various politico-military circumstances during the period of Roman Republican expansion. One these situations is conloquia, or face-to-face interviews military chiefs. This diplomatic practice, previously studied by scholars such as García Riaza, has a series common procedures, we can deduce from reading classic texts. These mechanisms seem...

We explore a political-economy model of labor subsidies, extending Meltzer and Richard’s median-voter model to a dynamic setting. We explore only one source of heterogeneity: initial wealth. As a consequence, given an operative wealth effect, poorer agents work harder, and if the agent with median wealth is poorer than average, a politico-economic equilibrium will feature a subsidy to labor. Th...

one of the aims of politics is the prevention of violence and establishment of peace. in the twentieth century, political thinkers and scholars in diplomacy and international law have devised various techniques to achieve this aim. however, such an attempt has not been limited to the modern era, and classic thinkers both in the east and the west have also thought about such techniques. ibn-i fa...

This paper aims at presenting our method to generate drum tracks to accompany guitar tracks. Our approach was to work on songs in the Midi format, separate them into several segments and then design our own features for the input guitar tracks as well as for the output drum tracks. We performed clustering algorithms (K-means, mixture of Gaussian, DBSCAN) as well as K-nn to group similar guitar ...

This paper concerns the extent to which uncertain propositional reasoning can track probabilistic reasoning, and addresses kinematic problems that extend the familiar Lottery paradox. An acceptance rule assigns to each Bayesian credal state p a propositional belief revision method Bp, which specifies an initial belief state Bp(⊤), that is revised to the new propositional belief state B(E) upon ...

BACKGROUND This study compares mortality outcomes of Medicaid-reimbursed nursing home residents with and without do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in two diverse states. METHODS We used 1994 Minimum Data Set Plus (MDS+) information on 3215 nursing home residents from two states. We used Kaplan-Meier analyses to examine unadjusted mortality among those with and without DNR orders across states. ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 364 November 20, 2004 1837 want to be resuscitated? We are shifting full resuscitation from the hospital, where do-not-resuscitate orders are considered, into the community. Do people need to be encouraged to wear an advance directive (perhaps on a medical bracelet or necklace) and should the volunteer resuscitator look for this before attempting resuscitation or defibrill...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether physicians know of Washington State's prehospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) policy, 6 years after its implementation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Washington State, April 2001. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred seventy-one practicing physicians. MEASUREMENTS Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine relationships between physician and practice ...

* Extracted from the dissertation “Percepções de enfermeiros sobre a longitudinalidade em seu trabalho na Estratégia Saúde da Família”, State University of Maringá, 2010. 2 RN. Master in Nursing. Professor of the Nursing Department, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste. Santa Helena, PR, Brazil. baratieri. [email protected] 3 RN. Ph.D. in Nursing. Professor of the Nursing Department, Federal U...

BACKGROUND Physicians are frequently unaware of their patients' desires regarding end-of-life care. Consequently, opportunities to implement do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are often missed. OBJECTIVE To determine the reasons attending physicians do not write DNR orders when patients face increased mortality. METHODS Over 4 months, the medical records of all inpatients on the General Medici...