Objective. Acute atrial fibrillation often spontaneously resolves. This study aimed to investigate the outcomes and satisfaction of an evidence-based ED protocol employing a "wait and see" approach. Methods. A prospective observational cohort study of adult patients presenting to the Emergency Department with stable acute atrial fibrillation was performed. Patients were excluded if they were co...

How ore knowledge-intensive, text-comprehension processes computed? Specifically, how ore (1) explicit propositions remembered correctly, (2) pronouns resolved, (3) coherence and prediction inferences drown, (4) on-going interpretotions revised OS more information becomes available, and (5) informotion learned in specific contexts generalized to novel texts? A constraint satisfaction model is p...

In this study, the authors explored the use of positive, negative, and avoiding humor in 2 types of situations by individuals in romantic relationships. Participants (N = 154) rated their frequency of humor use in either a typical conflict scenario with their partner or a typical pleasant event. Participants also indicated their overall degree of romantic relationship satisfaction. Hierarchical...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to explore the association between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and work performance of emergency medical services personnel in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS Emergency medical service personnel were screened for potential PTSD using Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R). Work performance was assessed on the basis of five variables: number of late ...

Problem Statement: in the software engineering field, satisfaction of user's requirements by software has been a matter of concern. Therefore, monitoring software behavior against user's highlevel requirements has already received a considerable and significant attention. However, the gap between low-level software behavior and high-level requirements has put an obstacle in the way of monitorin...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic harvesting of the greater saphenous vein is increasingly used during cardiac surgery to improve patient satisfaction and reduce the wound complications associated with traditional open techniques. Although histologic studies suggest no significant difference in vein quality between these two techniques, long-term follow-up is lacking to address whether graft patency and ev...

This research examines the influence of job satisfaction and three dimensions of organizational commitment (i.e., affective, continuance, and normative) on the intention to leave, job search activity, performance, and leadership effectiveness of executives. Job satisfaction and the commitment dimensions were hypothesized to negatively predict the retention-related variables. Results generally s...

We give a survey of recent results on the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems. Our main emphasis is on tractable structural restrictions.

We present an adaptation of constraint satisfaction inference (Canisius et al., 2006b) for predicting dependency trees. Three different classifiers are trained to predict weighted soft-constraints on parts of the complex output. From these constraints, a standard weighted constraint satisfaction problem can be formed, the solution to which is a valid dependency tree.