In placebo-controlled acute surgical pain studies, provisions must be made for study subjects to receive adequate analgesic therapy. As such, most protocols allow study subjects to receive a pre-specified regimen of open-label analgesic drugs (rescue drugs) as needed. The selection of an appropriate rescue regimen is a critical experimental design choice. We hypothesized that a rescue regimen t...

Disaster rescue is one of the most serious social issues which involve very large numbers of heterogeneous rescue teams. In this paper, we introduce a co-ordination strategy for strengthening civil agents’ lives in the RoboCup-Rescue simulator scenario based on Multiple-Criteria Decision Techniques. The coordination strategy allows distributing the ambulance teams (resources) to the victims tha...

The RoboCup Rescue Simulation system provides a rich environment for developing novel techniques for multi-agent systems. The simulation provides a city map modeled as buildings and roads with civilians amongst them. A disaster scenario is simulated causing buildings to catch fire, roads to get blocked, and civilians to get injured and/or buried. The main goal is to use the available emergency ...

embryo culture were used to produce inter specific walnut hybrid plants between juglans nigra l. and j. regia l. developed ovaries were collected from j. rejia female flowers which were pollinated with j. nigra pollen grain by high dusting on a mature tree. in order to isolate embryos, exocarps were aseptically removed. isolated embryos from ovules at different developmental stages were transfe...

A widely accepted definition of genetic rescue from the classic review by Tallmon et al. (2004) is: “when population fitness, inferred from some demographic vital rate or phenotypic trait, increases by more than can be attributed to the demographic contribution of immigrants.” However, this definition limits assessment of the success of genetic rescue, decreases the probability of detecting ben...

Rescuers have lost their lives in events requiring them to go into dangerous areas that have unstable structures, gases and environments. Robots are necessary for search and rescue purposes, to access concealed places and environments that fire fighters and rescue personnel cannot gain entry to. The contractible arms elevating search and rescue (CAESAR) robot was designed and developed to assis...

In this paper, we propose an information assistance system and an algorithm for distributed rescue agents to improve their rescue activities. To save victims, finding them is quite important. We introduce a small intelligent device called "intelligent data carrier for rescue (IDC-R)" and a mediator blimp in ode r to search victims. Then, we propose an algorithm for distributed rescue agents to ...

Rescue robotics is an important steppingstone in the scientific challenge to create autonomous systems. There is a significant market for rescue robots, which has unique features that allow a fruitful combination of application oriented developments and basic research. Unlike other markets for advanced robotics systems like service robots, the rescue robotics domain benefits from the fact that ...

is to challenge researchers to design useful robotic systems for urban search and rescue (USAR). The competition rules are written to simulate a real rescue response in a simulated disaster environment developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This article provides an overview of the current state of the art for USAR robotics, an overview of the AAAI-2002 Robot Rescue eve...