Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer games, but have received an increasing amount of attention the robotics community last decade. With rising demands on agent complexity, game programmers found that Finite State Machines (FSM) they used scaled poorly and difficult extend, adapt reuse. In BTs, state transition logic is not dispersed across individual st...

This study explores the relationship between school demographic characteristics and amount of provided induction activities, as perceived by beginning teachers (BTs), with special attention for Professional Development Schools non-Professional Schools. The aim is to provide information that useful improve arrangements particular contexts. Data were collected in a Dutch national program which qu...

Background: Several severity scores have been proposed to predict patient outcome and to guide initial management of patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Most have been derived as predictors of mortality. A study was undertaken to compare the predictive value of these tools using different clinically meaningful outcomes as constructs for ‘‘severe pneumonia’’. Methods: A prospective...

Modularity is a central principle throughout the design process for cyber-physical systems. reduces complexity and increases reuse of behavior. In this article we pose answer following question: how can identify independent “modules” within structure reactive control architectures? To end, propose graph-structured architecture call decision show it generalizes some architectures that are popula...

One of the major causes of critical illness in the UK is the deterioration of respiratory function British Thoracic Society (BTS, 2008). The administration of supplemental

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether the type of shunt used at stage one palliation (S1P) affected the survival and the perioperative course through Fontan completion. BACKGROUND Although improved surgical and interstage survival have been demonstrated with the use of the right ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-PA) conduit compared with a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (BTS) at S1P, it i...

BACKGROUND Diastolic run off into the pulmonary circulation and labile coronary perfusion are thought to contribute to morbidity and mortality after the Norwood procedure (NP). We compared outcomes from the use of a RV to PA conduit (RV/PA) or a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (BTS), physiologically distinct sources of pulmonary blood flow. METHODS AND RESULTS Review of 56 consecutive patients...

Dopamine uptake inhibitors may provide a means of sustaining endogenous and exogenous striatal dopamine levels in Parkinson's disease, but most are not selective and also inhibit the noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) transporters. To determine the involvement of the individual monoamine transporters in the production of motor activity, the effect of the nonselective monoamine uptake ...

BACKGROUND A recent study showed that clopidogrel reduces thrombo-occlusive complications in patients with symptomatic atherosclerosis more effectively than aspirin. METHODS AND RESULTS The effects of clopidogrel and aspirin have been compared, singly and in combination, for measurements of 111In-labeled platelets and 125I-labeled fibrin deposition in baboon models of arterial thrombosis and ...

BACKGROUND Several severity scores have been proposed to predict patient outcome and to guide initial management of patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Most have been derived as predictors of mortality. A study was undertaken to compare the predictive value of these tools using different clinically meaningful outcomes as constructs for "severe pneumonia". METHODS A prospective c...