We define formalisms to reason about Coalitional Games (CGs), in which one can express what coalitions of agents can achieve. We start with Quantified CGs (QCGs), in which each agent has some goals he wants to satisfy, which may change over time. Then we focus on CGs themselves. Although CGs can be well analysed in a formalism close to Pauly’s Coalition Logic, in QCGs, when having preferences, ...

BACKGROUND The Checklist for the Reporting of Updated Guidelines (CheckUp) was recently developed. However, so far, no systematic assessment of the reporting of updated clinical guidelines (CGs) exists. We aimed to examine (1) the completeness of reporting the updating process in CGs and (2) the inter-observer reliability of CheckUp. METHODS We conducted a systematic assessment of the reporti...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the role of CGS21680, a selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist, on a bile-duct-ligated cirrhotic liver resection model in rats. METHODS Male Wistar rats were allotted into 3 groups (n = 7 per time-point): the control group, the bile duct ligation + CGS21680 group (BDL + CGS), and the bile duct ligation group (BDL). Biliary cirrhosis had been previously induced by l...

Abstract Despite evidence of increased caregiving intensity, stress, and burden during the COVID-19 crisis clear racial disparities in COVID-19, there is a lack research on impact dementia (vs. non-dementia) care provision caregivers’ (CGs) quality life by race. The current study used National Health Aging Trends Study Family Members Friends data (N=1,462, 15% Black 85% Non-Hispanic White CGs) ...

Introduction: Wearable sensors, especially biosensors, are playing an important role in healthcare, security, environmental monitoring domains and fitness [6]. Many researchers have demonstrated the benefit of compression garments in sports performance [1, 5]. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the reasons for this improved performance [4]. This paper aims to determine the effec...

OBJECTIVE Despite known benefits of patient-perceived collaborative goal setting, we have a limited ability to monitor this process in practice. We developed the Patient Measure of Collaborative Goal Setting (PM-CGS) to evaluate the use of collaborative goal setting from the patient's perspective. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A random sample of 400 patients aged 40 years or older, receiving di...

The class of chain graphs (CGs) involving both undirected graphs (= Markov networks) and directed acyclic graphs (= Bayesian networks) was introduced in middle eighties for description of probabilistic conditional independence structures. Every class of Markov equivalent CGs (that is CGs describing the same conditional independence structure) has a natural representative, which is called the la...

Narratives of commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) as ‘baby-selling’ often conflate or interchange the transfer children born via with trafficking in sale children, two sometimes overlapping but nonetheless distinct offenses. Moreover, anti-trafficking laws have been used to police cross-border CGS. But when do CGS arrangements fall within category legitimate ‘reproductive tourism’ and they a...

Although tools exist to aid practitioners in the construction of directed graphs typified by Conceptual Graphs (CGs), it is still quite possible for them to draw the wrong model, mistakenly or otherwise. In larger or more complex CGs it is furthermore often difficult–without close inspection–to see clearly the key features of the model. This paper thereby presents a formal method, based on the ...

Although there are conflicting results on whether adenosine infusion during reperfusion alters infarct size, there are several reports that indicate adenosine A(2a) agonists reduce infarct size. There are also reports that the A(2a) agonist CGS-21680 increases cAMP and contractility in ventricular myocytes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether low-dose intracoronary infusions of C...