INTRODUCTION The Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess) laid down recommendations for freeing the world’s scholarly reviewed literature through both Open Access Publishing (OAP) and Open Access Archiving (OAA). With OAP, the emphasis is on transferring the cost from the readers to the producers , either through author-fee or other alternative revenue streams. With OAA...

The Hypoglossal Nerve in Carotid A rterial Reconstructions • The importance of hypoglossal nerve in performing carotid arterial reconstructions has been illustrated by two case reports. Unilateral palsy is troublesome but bilateral damage may result in upper airway obstruction. Simple surgical maneuvers consisting of division of the sternocleidomastoid artery and vein and freeing up of the desc...

Excessively long build times severely reduce a team’s ability to apply the XP practice of Continuous Integration. Long build times have a severe impact on team morale, productivity, and project ROI. With the application of techniques described in this Long Build Trouble Shooting Guide, teams will be able to keep their builds from exceeding 10 minutes in length. By keeping builds short, teams wi...

PURPOSE The current study investigates the level of students' learning and attitudes towards the teaching and learning process when using digital lectures to teach gross anatomy to year 1 medical students. METHODS The study sampled year 1 medical students of cohorts 2013 and 2014. The year 1 medical students in 2013 were taught gross anatomy of the heart by didactic classroom lectures while t...

We report the implementation of a system for displaying three-dimensional anima-tions based on holoprojection. It is based in the holoprojection of two-dimensional slices (produced by a modiied ray tracing program) of three-dimensional scenes. The nal display is a truly spatial three-dimensional image with continuos horizontal parallax. It makes use of the holographic screen, a special diiracti...

Abstract A new architecture is proposed for configurable blocks which can be used to construct a multiplier. An array of these blocks is capable of being configured to perform any 4m bits x 4n bits signed/unsigned binary multiplication. The blocks are designed to be embedded within a conventional FPGA structure to increase the functionality of the device by freeing valuable general reconfigurab...

Kernel-based stochastic factorization (KBSF) is an algorithm for solving reinforcement learning tasks with continuous state spaces which builds a Markov decision process (MDP) based on a set of sample transitions. What sets KBSF apart from other kernel-based approaches is the fact that the size of its MDP is independent of the number of transitions, which makes it possible to control the trade-...

Participants in critical reflection workshops and peer supervision often comment that the process feels therapeutic, enabling them to engage with challenging experiences, even although it is clearly not therapy. This reflective article explores these comments, particularly how processes of embedded spirituality can foster a deep exploration traumatic experiences undermine sense self ability act...

HP hroughout today's healthcare system, managers, physicians, and marketing departments are asking themselves: How can we make the best use of Web services? Unfortunately, many are focusing on the technology involved. But the Web revolution in healthcare is not really about computer technology. It's about improving communication with patients, about freeing employees from inefficient work proce...