Health development expert. He was born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, on Feb 6, 1967, and died after a motorcycle accident Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan 15, 2021, aged 53 years. Bart Jacobs's areas of expertise encompassed social health policy, protection, financing for universal coverage. “He always keen that his work should be evidence based”, says Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, regional adviser governance at...

Areas of S deficiency are still being identified in the Pacific Northwest even though S has been applied to some soils in this region for at least 50 years. Recent studies dealing with the S fertilization of legumes for the Northwest have been conducted by Pumphrey and Moore (1965a, 1965b) in northeastern Oregon; Smith, et al., (1968) in western Montana; Dawson (1969) on pasture legumes in west...

BART (Versley et al., 2008) is a highly modular toolkit for coreference resolution that supports state-of-the-art statistical approaches and enables efficient feature engineering. For the SemEval task 1 on Coreference Resolution, BART runs have been submitted for German, English, and Italian. BART relies on a maximum entropy-based classifier for pairs of mentions. A novel entitymention approach...

BACKGROUND Biofeedback-assisted relaxation training (BART) can treat several common pediatric presentations, including chronic pain and anxiety. Its effectiveness, applicability to a variety of conditions, and equipment portability make it an ideal treatment approach for use in an inpatient pediatric consultation-liaison service. OBJECTIVE Since there is a paucity of published research on the...

agreed-upon moral precepts, such as telling the truth and not harming others, are rules for living together that any intelligent gregarious beings would put into their social contracts, needing no divine sanction. In contrast, little good can come from parochial doctrines that cannot be justifi ed by universal standards of reason. Coyne doesn’t dwell on obvious historical disasters, such as rel...

Sridhar R. Allam, Tom S. Livingston, Vijay Kalaria, Wilder Diaz-Calderon, John A. Pumphrey, Lincoln Patel and Balamurugan Sankarapandian Tarrant Nephrology Associates, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Department of Interventional Radiology, Baylor All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Fort Worth Heart, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Texas Health Care, Fort Worth, Texas, USA and Associates in Urolo...

Continuing a program of research assessing the utility of the Behavioral Analog Risk Task (BART, Lejuez et al, 2002) as a measure ofrisk taking, the BART was administered to a non-forensic sample of individuals high and low in self-reported psychopathy. Inter-relations of BART performance with measures of psychopathy and impulsivity were examined, with an emphasis on exploring the predictive va...

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BACKGROUND Non-invasive measures of vascular reactivity have emerged to refine cardiovascular risk. However, limited data exists investigating vascular reactivity as a preoperative diagnostic tool for anesthesiologists. In this study, we compare the utility of two non-invasive techniques, Brachial Artery Reactivity Testing (BART) and Digital Thermal Monitoring (DTM), as surrogates for measuring...