OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an intervention on the understanding and use of DNR orders by physicians; to assess the impact of understanding the importance of involving competent patients in DNR decisions. DESIGN Prospective clinical interventional study. SETTING Internal medicine department (70 beds) of the hospital of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS Nine junior physi...

Online trackers compile profiles on users for targeting ads, customizing websites, and selling users’ information. In this paper, we report on the first detailed study of the perceived benefits and risks of tracking—and the reasons behind them—conducted in the context of users’ own browsing histories. Prior work has studied this in the abstract; in contrast, we collected browsing histories from...

The potential for using airborne electromagnetic (AEM) methods for measuring water depth has been demonstrated from data acquired from several surveys over shallow coastal waters in Australia. These AEM surveys were undertaken using both fixed-wing time-domain and helicopter (time and frequency domain) commercial systems. Some survey data was also interpreted to delineate the bedrocksediment bo...

L. R. da Silva1, A. A. Tateishi2, M. K. Lenzi3, E. K. Lenzi2, and P. C. da Silva1,4 1Departamento de Fı́sica and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil 2Departamento de Fı́sica and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Avenida Colombo, ...

As an object moves through space, it creates a track (or path) representing the object’s past and present position and associated attributes. If data capture fails, then positions along the tracks are unknown. The particular problem we address in this paper is to create tracks of moving objects with missing data. We implement and test two techniques that create continuous tracks of two primate ...

Early Chinese texts contain extensive disease descriptions, including various texts that contain descriptions of modern-day conditions. During the Sui Dynasty, a leading scholar, Chao Yuanfang, may have authored a leading treatise 1400 years ago. Although these texts are the subject of ongoing research, evidence suggests that a clinical syndrome consistent with pertussis was observed in ancient...