The emotional intensity of an event is a significant predictor for vividness of event memory. Nevertheless, during the last few decades, there has been some confusion in literature as to whether emotional events are poorly or well retained. It is important to consider that not all details of emotional events are equally remembered: Memory for the central details seems to be relatively good, whe...

The speeds of onset of pancuronium, atracurium and vecuronium are increased by prior administration of magnesium sulphate. A prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled, clinical study was performed to examine the effects of prior i.v. administration of magnesium sulphate 60 mg kg-1 on the neuromuscular blocking effects of rocuronium 0.6 mg kg-1 during isoflurane anaesthesia. Neuromuscula...

How do ideological motivations influence terrorists’ choice of targets? While the ideological determinants of target selection have been the topic of anedoctal conjecture, no rigorous empirical work has been done to answer this question. Furthermore, no research has addressed the role of ideology in terrorist decision-making under strategic constraints. To address this gap in the literature, I ...

This research project investigates the ability of neural networks, specifically, the backpropagation algorithm, to integrate fundamental and technical analysis for financial performance prediction. The predictor attributes include 16 financial statement variables and 11 macroeconomic variables. The rate of return on common shareholders’ equity is used as the to-be-predicted variable. Financial ...

We report a patient with myotonic dystrophy who showed prolonged rocuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade, although with a fast recovery with sugammadex. During general anesthesia with propofol and remifentanil, the times to spontaneous recovery of the first twitch (T1) of train of four to 10% of control values after an intubating dose of rocuronium 1 mg/kg and an additional dose of 0.2 mg/kg ...

The relationship between learner capacity and generalization, established by Vapnik’s uniform convergence framework, suggests a remarkably simple validation procedure: reject the inductive hypothesis if the learning algorithm can also store the training examples with random labels. We study the properties of this apparently coarse estimator, which can be considered as the simplest possible capa...

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that a robust predictor of the strength of an inductive argument is the similarity between the categories that are the focus of the induction. In this paper we evaluate why similarity is associated with the strength of such arguments. On one view, category similarity makes an argument strong because similarity is partially determined by features that are comm...

Study of the literature on the physiology of neuromuscular transmission suggested two new methods of assessing the degree of neuromuscular block in the human subject. These were, first, a comparison of the height of the recorded twitch tensions developed in response to repeated single stimuli applied at differing frequencies and, second, examination of the extent of reduction in amplitude of tw...

A novel algorithm, CorClass, that integrates association rule mining with classification, is presented. It first discovers all correlated association rules (adapting a technique by Morishita and Sese) and then applies the discovered rule sets to classify unseen data. The key advantage of CorClass, as compared to other techniques for associative classification, is that CorClass directly finds th...