Due to the imminent danger involved in the petroleum operation domain, only well trained workers are allowed to operate in offshore oil process plants. Although their vast experience, human errors may happen during emergency situations as a result of the overwhelmed amount of information generated by a great deal of triggered alarms. Alarm devices have become very cheap leading petroleum equipm...

The specific question faced in this essay is whether special divine revelation has received embodiment in Holy Scripture. Are the Old and New Testaments to be acknowledged, not only as containing a record of the history of such revelation, but also as being themselves the very Word of God? Do they constitute divine revelation because of their intrinsic character, altogether apart from the respo...

The revelation principle asserts that every outcome brought by a mechanism is realized by a truthful direct mechanism. The present paper investigates the regularity conditions of these two mechanisms in the continuous space of the agent’s type. It questions what regularity condition a general mechanism confers upon a direct mechanism through the revelation principle. By so doing, we elucidate t...

This paper presents a new architecture for automatic continuous speech recognition called HEAR Hybrid Episodic-Abstract speech Recognizer. HEAR relies on both parametric speech models (HMMs) and episodic memory. We propose an evaluation on the Wall Street Journal corpus, a standard continuous speech recognition task, and compare the results with a stateof-the-art HMM baseline. HEAR is shown to ...

BACKGROUND Physiologic monitors generate high rates of alarms in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), yet few are actionable. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between a huddle-based intervention focused on reducing unnecessary alarms and the change in individual patients' alarm rates in the 24 hours after huddles. DESIGN Quasi-experimental study with concurrent and historical con...

This essay identifies three insights about global equity and justice in light of the COVID pandemic. It discusses need for greater recognition role order distribution harms; lack capacity within institutions to reason social justice; necessity recognize address racism as a driver human deprivations death.