INTRODUCTION As a group, transwomen in Peru have the highest prevalence of HIV (>20%) in the country, but they have little access to HIV prevention, testing and care services. Until recently, Peru's national HIV programme did not recognize transwomen and had remained essentially static for decades. This changed in December 2014, when the Ministry of Health expressed its commitment to improve pr...

The O Plan Open Planning Architecture allows for three separate agents for Task Assignment Planning and Execution Each O Plan agent maintains a separate Plan State which consists of the agent s predictive plan and a set of outstanding agent processing requirements in the form of an Agenda This agenda can represent plan aws or unsatis ed requests from a superior agent or still to be processed is...

Our patients come to see us because of concerns and complaints regarding their health and physical well-being. They spend their emotional energy, their time, and their resources (monetary and other) in order for us to provide care. In general, they ask only that we do our best and that we involve them in the decision process. They ask us to listen to them, to perform an examination, to make a d...

This chapter focuses on the management of patients who have had previous surgery for correction of spinal deformity that requires further surgical intervention. Patients who present with failed surgical correction or with new surgical issues are typically complex and require a thorough physical examination and complete diagnostic evaluation. A combination of laboratory, radiologic, and electrod...

We build a comprehensive macro-learning system and contribute in three different dimensions that have previously not been addressed adequately. Firstly, we learn macro-sets considering implicitly the interactions between constituent macros. Secondly, we effectively learn macros that are not found in given example plans. Lastly, we improve or reduce degradation of plan-length when macros are use...