Regional anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy is a simple, reliable, and virtually complication-free technique. We began to perform a series of carotid endarterectomy under regional anesthesia at our institution in May 1990. This report describes our experience with 180 operated patients from May 1990 till December 1995, with regional anesthesia. All patients were operated with microsurgery an...

An important research topic in the field of computational social choice is the complexity of various forms of dishonest behavior, such as manipulation, control, and bribery. While much of the work on this topic assumes that the cheating party has full information about the election, recently there have been a number of attempts to gauge the complexity of non-truthful behavior under uncertainty ...

Collaborative filtering accomplishes automated personalized content recommendation but by relying on anonymous user feedback is vulnerable to manipulation. Taking measures to improve robustness to outliers seeks to increase resistance against such manipulation. However, this detrimentally impacts recommendation quality even in the absence of such attacks. By taking a competitive game perspectiv...

In 1993 Medicare paid more money to anesthesia providers for cataract surgery than for any other surgical procedure. Patients undergoing cataract surgery often receive monitored anesthesia care (MAC). Thus, cuts in anesthesia payments from Medicare for cataract surgery may be forthcoming. If few interventions were being done after a retrobulbar block was placed, then a registered nurse might be...