Background Approximately 90 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with little or no access to cardiac surgery. Initiation of a surgical program results in a large influx of patients, of whom only a small proportion can be selected for surgical intervention. In addition, at times program development goals may conflict with patient care goals. When surgery cannot be provided to all...

Murray, Holmes, and Collins’ [Murray, Holmes, and Collins (2006) Optimizing assurance: The risk regulation system in relationships. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 641–666] interpersonal risk regulation model posits that people cope with threats to their romantic relationships by prioritizing self-protection goals over connectedness goals. The current paper tests whether these relationship-specifi...

Studies examining students’ achievement goals, cognitive engagement strategies and performance have found that achievement goals tend to predict classes of cognitive strategy use which predict performance on measures of learning. These studies have led to deeper theoretical understanding, but their reliance on self-report data limit the conclusions that can be drawn. We employed a behavioral ap...

Central problems in path planning are obstacle avoidance and path optimisation. The aim of our work was to investigate the efciency of an Evolution Strategy for optimising robot parameters in both respects. We chose a simple model in order to highlight the effect of evolution as an optimisation procedure. In our model the robot has to reach given goals from a given starting position. In our sim...

Utilizing the collective behavior of a population of interacting individuals, based on rather simple local algorithms, is a promising approach for achieving complex goals. We use an onboard online evolutionary model, based on finite Moore automata, to develop collective behavior in an artificial swarm of micro-robots. Experiments have been made in simulation to achieve Collision Avoidance. The ...

The forward surgical team (FST), designed for mobility, provides level II forward life saving and resuscitative surgery. Resuscitative surgery includes controlling hemorrhage from traumatic amputation, as well as damage control surgery, usually an “abbreviated” laparotomy or thoracotomy. The goals of the abbreviated operation are to stop hemorrhage and gastrointestinal soilage. The overall goal...

This article presents an overview of physical therapy management for patients with pathological musculoskeletal conditions of the shoulder. The importance of a thorough physical examination is stressed because proper treatment is based on this information. The primary goals of management should include the alleviation of acute inflammation and pain and the avoidance of subsequent soft tissue sh...

The expenditures for hospital drugs are continuously increasing, and grow much faster than the global hospital budgets do. This explosive growth is caused mainly by a few so-called 'expensive drugs' of which the oncolytics form the main part. The global budgets should stimulate more effective provision of care ('technical efficiency'), however the room for technical efficiency is decreasing. Ho...

There has been very little published research on building legal decision support systems to perform risk assessment. Yet one of the principal goals of the law is to reduce risk through the avoidance of litigation. This paper discusses ongoing research on how legal decision support systems can support risk reduction and negotiation. Toulmin’s theory of argumentation is proposed as one technique ...

This paper presents a new approach based on multicarrier modulation (MCM) with OFDM, to accomplish the goals of 4G. MCM [1] is a form of multicarrier system and a derivative of frequency-division multiplexing. MCM is a baseband process that uses parallel equal bandwidth sub channels to transmit information. Normally implemented with Fast Fourier transform (FFT) techniques, MCM's advantages incl...