Algorithmic debugging is a semi-automatic method for locating bugs in programs. An algorithmic debugger asks a user a series of questions about the intended behaviour of the program. Here we present two new methods that reduces the number of questions a user must answer to locate a bug. First, we describe a heuristic based on comparing computations of the same program with different inputs. Bes...

Although future Medicare costs are highly uncertain, reasonable projections of those costs suggest a major financing problem. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 will provide temporary relief, although it introduced some new problems, including its geographic adjustment of Medicare+Choice rates. For the future we propose a premium-support system and an expanded benefits package. Such a system would...

A 2-year-old girl with Pierre Robin sequence, a gastric tube, and a tracheostomy and ventilator was admitted to the hospital medicine service. She had presented with a dislodged gastric tube, and on presentation she was lethargic, mildly febrile, and tachycardic, with normal blood pressure for age and oxygen saturations of 95% to 100% on her home ventilator settings. Her laboratory tests in the...

In this paper I would like to cast a critical look on the potential reasons for compositionality. I will, in particular, evaluate if and to which extent the most often cited reasons in favor of compositionality, viz. productivity, systematicity and inferentiality – each taken as properties of either language or cognition – may be justly regarded as justifications for compositionality. The resul...

AKI is the loss of kidney function over a period of hours to days. Although the definition is easily stated, operationalizing it in a form that can be readily applied in clinical practice and in research settings has been a challenge. Markers of glomerular filtration, including serum creatinine and urine output, generally lag behind the actual onset of parenchymal kidney injury and reliance on ...

This study is part of a larger project with the general aim developing ability preschool teachers to reflect critically on questions, topics and theories related different understandings death(s). The article based three focus-group interviews focus how what, how, why when they teach about death death-related issues. results show that consider it important in early childhood education because f...