BACKGROUND Overwhelmed family decision makers of chronically critically ill patients must comprehend vital information to make complex treatment decisions that are consistent with patients' preferences. Exploration of informational coping styles of family decision makers may yield evidence for tailored communication practices supporting the psychological and informational needs of family decisi...

in Wilson's disease, and localization of iron in hemochromatosis. On pages 2 and 166, Birks discussed future trends in electron probe mocroanalysis, including lower cost instruments and those that will quantitate elements down to carbon. Such developments would open this microanalytic technique to the realm of the biologist. Birks writes with a crisp style, and with the insight of a worker in t...

Dismantling nuclear power plants entails the production of a large amount contaminated (or potentially contaminated) material whose disposal is crucial importance. Most end products have to be stored in special repositories but it can happen that some them are slightly or not at all, making possible free release them. One approach measurements uses Large Clearance Monitors, chambers surrounded ...

In informational masking paradigms, the successful segregation between target and masker creates auditory perceptual awareness. The dynamics of build-up perception is based on a set interactions bottom–up top–down processes that generate neuronal modifications within brain network activity. These neural changes are studied here using event-related potentials (ERPs), entropy, integrated informat...

Social media sites are considered one of the most important sources data in many fields, such as health, education, and politics. While surveys provide explicit answers to specific questions, posts social have same implicitly occurring text. This research aims develop a method for extracting implicit from large tweet collections, demonstrate this an concern: problem heart attacks. The approach ...

We examine the informational efficiency of domestic equity ETFs vis-a-vis their underlying market indices during COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, we employ a multiscale entropy-based methodology. Our findings indicate that all as well fall sharply COVID induced crash in February-March 2020. Having said find disproportionate deterioration and pertaining to USA Canada compared those China, Hong Kong ...

What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable by using the methodology of the levels of abstractions. It follows that OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendl...