BACKGROUND The importance of involving parents in the end-of-life decision-making-process (EOL DMP) for their child in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is recognised by ethical guidelines in numerous countries. However, studies exploring parents' opinions on the type of involvement report conflicting results. This study sought to explore parents' experience of the EOL DMP for their child...

BACKGROUND People living with chronic disease currently account for the majority of the total healthcare costs. The Central Denmark Region implemented a disease management programme (DMP) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 2008. This presented an opportunity to examine the effect of an evidence-based, planned and proactive implementation of a DMP compared to the usual implement...

24 Associative plasticity is hypothesized to be an important neurophysiological correlate of 25 memory formation and learning with potentials for applications in neurorehabilitation and for 26 the development as new electrophysiological measures to study disorders of cortical plasticity. 27 We hypothesized that magnitude of paired associative stimulation (PAS) induced long term 28 potentiation ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the validity of recorded diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic maculopathy (DMP) diagnoses, including edema (DMO) in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In two independent computer searches, we detected 20,838 patients with diabetes aged 1-84 years with a first DR computer Read entry in 2000-2008 and 4,064 with a first DMP entry. ...

The Delay Management Problem for Public Transportation (DMP) arises in the context of the operational management of an intermodal public transportation network and has the aim of increasing the attractiveness of the network itself. Many passengers often have to use different lines to cover the trip from their origin to the desired destination and the attractiveness of the network is strongly re...

Using 1km grid datasets representing monthly mean precipitation, monthly mean temperature, and dry matter production (DMP), we considered the regional plant production ability in Southeast and South Asia, and also employed pixel-by-pixel correlation analysis to assess the intensity of relation between climate factors and plant production. While annual DMP in South Asia was approximately less th...

Using monoanionic triazenide ligands derived from biphenyl and m-terphenyl substituted triazenes Dmp(Tph)N3H (1a), (Me4Ter)2N3H (1b) or Dmp(Mph)N3H (1c) (Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3 with Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2; Me4Ter = 2,6-(3,5-Me2C6H3)2C6H3; Mph = 2-MesC6H4; Tph = 2-TripC6H4 with Trip = 2,4,6-i-Pr3C6H2), several magnesium triazenides were synthesized. Heteroleptic complexes [Mg(N3Ar2)I(OEt2)] (Ar2 = Dmp/...

Distributed Multimedia Plays (DMP) Collaboration surfaces are essential parts of the DMP three-layer systems architecture. DMP provides near-natural virtual networked auto-stereoscopic continuous (multi-) view video and multichannel sound collaboration between users (and users and servers) [RON07a]. The end-to-end maximum time delay is guaranteed (< 10-30 ms) by allowing the quality of audio-vi...

We present a method for planning the motion of arbitrarily-shaped volumetric deformable bodies or robots through complex environments. Such robots have very highdimensional configuration spaces and we compute trajectories that satisfy the dynamics constraints using a two-stage learning method. First, we train a multitask controller parameterized using dynamic movement primitives (DMP), which en...

OBJECTIVE Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides can lead to developmental neurotoxicity. A longitudinal birth cohort was established to investigate pesticide exposures from different agricultural activities. Maternal urinary organophosphate metabolites were measured at 28 weeks of pregnancy (n=86), delivery (n=67) and 2 months postpartum (n=51). METHOD Subjects were interviewed with...