PURPOSE OF REVIEW Surgical interventions, including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgeries, are increasingly being performed in the neonatal and pediatric populations. Thoracic anesthesia in infants and children poses special challenges for the anesthesiologist. These include assessment of the patient's clinical condition, obtaining and maintaining single lung ventilation, and maintaining adequ...

The video game Dance Dance Revolution is a musicbased game of timing. The game plays music and shows patterns of arrows synchronized with the music. The player stands on a platform marked with the same four arrows shown in the game and earns a score based on how closely his steps match the timing of the video game. A pattern of steps for a given song is called a step chart, and each step chart ...

Until relatively recently the technology was simply not in place to make use of streaming video presentation as a means of course material delivery. The main obstacles involved both the initial production and processing of the material which was typically expensive and time-consuming, and the necessary bandwidth available for presentation. We report here on one experience of using this technolo...

INTRODUCTION Native American children experience greater disparities in the number and magnitude of health-related diseases than White children. Multimedia-based health interventions may afford valuable opportunities for reaching this underserved demographic; however, limited data are available describing the use of media technologies among Native Americans. This study characterized diverse med...

This short paper provides further details of the diveXplore system (formerly known as CoViSS), which has been used by team ITEC1 for the Video Browser Showdown [7] (VBS) 2018. In particular, it gives a short overview of search features and some details of final system changes, not included in the corresponding VBS2018 paper [4], as well as a basic analysis of how the system has been used for VB...

BACKGROUND Recently, it has been observed that Video Display Terminals (VDTs) usage for long periods can cause some dermatological manifestations on the face. An analytical cross-sectional study was designed in order to determine this relationship. METHODS In this study, 600 office workers were chosen randomly from an organization in Tehran (Iran). The subjects were then divided into two grou...