Methods and results I sent a questionnaire to 100 randomly selected accident and emergency departments. Non-responders were contacted once by telephone. The questionnaire asked the identity and training of the medical incident officer; the members, training, and experience of the mobile medical team; and whether action cards were issued. Ninety three departments returned questionnaires. Five de...

This study examined whether skill tests were predictive of status in junior Australian football. Players were recruited from the 2013 under 18 (U18) West Australian Football League competition and classified into two groups: elite (state U18 squad representative; n = 25; 17.9 ± 0.5 years) and subelite (nonstate U18 squad representative; n = 25; 17.3 ± 0.6 years). Both groups completed the Austr...

This paper presents an application of Hierarchical Transition Network (HTN) planning to a squad-based military simulation. The hierarchical planner produces collaborative plans for the whole squad in real time, generating the type of highly coordinated behaviours typical for armed combat situations involving trained professionals. Here, we detail the extensions to HTN planning necessary to prov...

This paper describes a multi-media outreach campaign intended to increase children’s knowledge of engineering and to improve the public image of the profession. The central element is a reality-based show entitled Design Squad, whose first season was broadcast on public television stations beginning in the spring of 2007. The show was developed through iterations of prototype episodes and forma...

San Francisco, Nov. 3.—Coach Jack Meagher will lead his Rice Owls into San Francisco this morning and will be greeted at the station by a delegation of notables, headed by Mayor Angelo Rossi. The Owl squad will be given a royal welcome and the entire squad will be escorted to the city hall. The Rice team will work out this afternoon at Kezar Stadium to get out the road kinks and will be in fine...

Knowing the quality of reading comprehension (RC) datasets is important for the development of natural-language understanding systems. In this study, two classes of metrics were adopted for evaluating RC datasets: prerequisite skills and readability. We applied these classes to six existing datasets, including MCTest and SQuAD, and highlighted the characteristics of the datasets according to ea...

We review two recently proposed on-shell schemes for the renormalization of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix in the Standard Model. One first constructs gauge-independent mass counterterm matrices for the upand down-type quarks complying with the hermiticity of the complete mass matrices. Diagonalization of the latter then leads to explicit expressions for the CKM counter...