In every medical specialty bad, sad, and difficult information must be given to patients and their families. An insensitive approach increases the distress of recipients of bad news, may exert a lasting impact on their ability to adapt and adjust, and can lead to anger and an increased risk of litigation. Many doctors also find these interactions stressful, and in the absence of much effective ...

Fair scheduling algorithms are an important component of most QoS mechanisms designed to support the performance guarantees required by real-time applications. In this paper, we present Greedy Fair Queueing (GrFQ), a novel scheduler based on a greedy strategy of reducing the maximum difference in normalized service received by any two flows at each trasmission boundary. We prove that the GrFQ s...

 Integration has had a bad press in recent years. Feminists and spokesmen for racial and ethnic minorities express concern that the integrationist agenda requires women and members of minorities to divest themselves of features of their “identities” in order to approximate to a restrictive white male ideal which, they hold, should not be a requirement for fair treatment and social benef...

The ability to quickly deploy new protocols, and provide flexibility to both applications and network administrators has been an oft-cited reason for active networks to be seriously examined. This paper describes an architecture and implementation that provides dynamic installation of network services and flexibility to active code. An example of weighted fair queuing being installed dynamicall...

In the paper characteristic features of the corona noise from UHV transmission lines have been distinguished, which can be useful for the noise measurement under high level interference conditions. The utility of statistical methods in elimination of typical environmental interference has been shown, particularly methods based on the measurement of statistical spectra. The effect of inaccurate ...

Abstract Background The purpose of our retrospective study was to assess the termination rate and image quality MR exams performed in claustrophobic patients under medical hypnosis, as compared undergoing spontaneous breathing general anesthesia. Methods Our approved by ethics committee. “hypnosis group” included consecutive that had previously interrupted an exam because claustrophobia. “contr...