Efforts such as the Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration (ATTD) Program have requirements for real-time execution of knowledge-based systems. However, existing computer hardware platforms and software systems (languages, tools, shells, etc.) are not adequate for applications requiring real-time knowledge-based processing. This is not surprising ...

In this still young XXIst century, neuroanatomy returns to center stage, after decades of being criticized as too " descriptive, " and consequent neglect at the end of the last century. This re-instatement is in part because " descriptive " has lost much of its pejorative connotation, and the recognition of the importance of functional, genetically-and molecularly-based categorization, and deep...

Background Removal of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Vale of Leven Hospital mandated the identification and transfer out of those acute medical admissions with a high risk of requiring ICU. Aims To develop triaging tools that identified such patients and compare them with other scoring systems. Methods A retrospective analysis of physiological and arterial gas measurements from 1976 acute...

Two non-static solutions for three dimensional gravity coupled to matter fields are given. One describes the collapse of radiation that results in a black hole. This is the three dimensional analog of the Vaidya metric, and is used to construct a model for mass inflation. The other describes plane gravitational waves for coupling to a massless scalar field. PACS numbers: 4.20, 4.40, 97.60.L Typ...

Background Sjogren’s syndrome is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder (classified as an autoimmune disorder) characterized by lymphocyte infiltrates in exocrine organs. This classified primary sjogren’s or secondary sjogren’s. Dryness of the eyes, oral cavity, larynx, pharynx and vagina common syndrome. Although vaginal dryness symptom seen after menopause healthy population, it often occur...

In a recent article, [1] we have demonstrated a significant difference in the theoretical knowledge of both junior and senior emergency department (ED) medical offi cers (MOs) from Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, and the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) Adelaide, South Australia, in the management of severely injured trauma patients, when comparing MOs who had completed an ATLS-type program with those w...

We give an approach to studying the critical behaviour that has been observed in numerical studies of gravitational collapse. These studies suggest, among other things, that black holes initially form with infinitesimal mass. We show generally how a black hole mass formula can be extracted from a transcendental equation. Using our approach, we give an explicit one parameter set of metrics that ...

The potential role of dimerization in controlling the expression and pharmacological properties of 1-adrenoceptor subtypes was examined using coimmunoprecipitation of epitope-tagged receptors. Human 1-adrenoceptor subtypes ( 1A, 1B, 1D) were tagged at their amino-termini with Flag or hemagglutinin epitopes and transfected into human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Homodimerization of all three subt...