The “2016 Chinese guideline for the management of dyslipidemia in adults” (the new Guide for short) released by Chinese Journal of Cardiology is based on the 2007 “Guide for Dyslipidemia Prevention in Chinese Adults” (the 2007 Hyperlipidemia Guide for short) and is the result of a year's effort and work by a team of specialists. The public release of the 2007 Hyperlipidemia Guide has had a posi...

People tend to prefer information sources that agree with their viewpoints, as predicted by the selective exposure theory, and to associate with people who are like them, a process known as homophily. Scholars raise fears that the combination of these factors can limit the diversity of viewpoints to which people are exposed, particularly when people find news through social network sites. In th...

A review study examined the clinical course of measles diagnosed in children being treated for malignant disease in Newcastle upon Tyne during 1973-86. Of the 17 cases diagnosed, five were fatal. Factors associated with a favourable outcome were a typical rash and Koplik's spots, which were accompanied by a detectable serum antibody response and the disappearance of measles giant cells from nas...

WORKED IN a thoracic unit before starting the conversion course to first level registered nurse. I have now completed the course and arranged an interview for the oncology department of a new hospital.

HIV impacts men, women and children of all races, genders, ethnicities and sexual identities; however, a disproportionate number of men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be heavily impacted in the United States. According to the CDC, MSM accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among males in 2005, even though only five to seven percent of adult males identify themselves as MSM (CDC, 2007)...

⁎ Corresponding author. Harvard University, Departmen Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel.: +1 203 558 0974. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.L. Leimgru http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12.002 1090-5138/© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please cite this article as: Leimgruber, K.L., et dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12 Article history: Initial receipt 1 September 2015 ...

We present a method to improve the positive examples selection by teaching agents in a multi-agent system in which a team of agent peers teach concepts to a learning agent. The basic idea in this method is to let a teacher agent expand the features it uses to describe a concept in its ontology by additional features. This resembles the typical behavior of human teachers who describe concepts fr...

Carotid endarterectomy reduces the overall risk of stroke in patients with ECST70-99% recently symptomatic stenosis, and to a lesser extent, at least in the short-term, in patients with severe asymptomatic stenosis. Whether angioplasty and stenting is a reasonable alternative will be decided by the results of ongoing RCTs of angioplasty versus endarterectomy. The current policy of operating on ...