Laryngeal Mask Airway has gained wide acceptance for routine airway management, difficult airway and in emergency situations. The classical method of insertion was recommended by Dr Brain. Over the years various induction and insertion techniques have been described with variable results. Combination of induction agents with narcotics, with or without small dose muscle relaxants has been found ...

In economics duopoly is a market dominated by two firms large enough to influence the market price. Stackelberg presented a dynamic form of duopoly that is also called 'leader-follower' model. We give a quantum perspective on Stackelberg duopoly that gives a backwards-induction outcome same as the Nash equilibrium in static form of duopoly also known as Cournot's duopoly. We find two qubit quan...

A basic problem of game theory is equilibrium selection; that is, identifying those equilibria that satisfy plausible axioms of the sort postulated by Kohlberg and Mertens (1986) and Mertens (1989), and variants proposed by Banks and Sobel (1987), Cho and Kreps (1987), and others. The main axioms require properties such as Invariance (with respect to addition or deletion of redundant pure strat...

Consider the following scheme to solve the sorting problem: given n numbers to be sorted, after the ith of n (1 ≤ i ≤ n), we will make sure that we have i of input numbers in a sorted list. Clearly these i sorted numbers will partition the ranks of the remaining n− i unsorted numbers into i + 1 intervals. The (i + 1)th step consists of choosing one of the n − i unsorted numbers uniformly at ran...

extinguished by the transfer. But the extent of the transformation is not yet clear. “It’s possible that what we are doing is turning everything into an oocyte,” says Gurdon. But he believes that oct4 expression is a good sign that the cells are at least headed toward becoming stem cells. Stem cell characteristics may develop only through sequential inductive events. But the optimists are hopin...