OBJECTIVES To systematically review the current literature on treatment of third and fourth branchial pouch sinuses with endoscopic cauterization, including chemocauterization and electrocauterization, in comparison to surgical treatment. DATA SOURCES PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. REVIEW METHODS We conducted a systematic search. Studies reporting original study data were include...

Introduction Recently, there have been concerns regarding a trend toward poorer quality evidence being accepted by regulatory institutions and the consequent impact on health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making. This study aimed to determine whether has change in of provided cancer drugs proposed for listing Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, using data solely extracted from public summary...

Conflict is an essential element of interesting stories. In previous work, we proposed a formal model of narrative conflict along with 4 quantitative dimensions which can be used to distinguish one conflict from another based on context: balance, directness, intensity, and resolution. This paper presents the results of an experiment designed to measure how well these metrics predict the respons...

This paper aims to examine the generic structures and linguistic properties of ads in Philippine magazines. Taken from the Corpus of Asian Magazine Advertising: The Philippine Database, the corpus consists of seventy-four ads for consumer nondurables such as medicines, vitamins and food supplements, and cosmetic/beauty/personal hygiene products. The study found that the ads demonstrated prefere...

We study spatial networks that are designed to distribute or collect a commodity, such as gas pipelines or train tracks. We focus on the cost of a network, as represented by the total length of all its edges, and its efficiency in terms of the directness of routes from point to point. Using data for several real-world examples, we find that distribution networks appear remarkably close to optim...

Social navigation is the process of making navigational decisions in real or virtual environments based on social and communicative interaction with others. A computational model for social navigation is presented as an extension to an existing framework for general navigation, reducing decision-making to the minimization of cognitive costs. Consideration for social navigation gives rise to a c...

He study equation solving and analyse the solutions of experienced mathematicians. We find that traditional theorem proving methods are inadequate to explain the directness of these solutions, and that the well known algorithms for polynomials etc. are inadequate to explain the wide variety of equations solved. Our analysis reveals a system of high-level descriptions, strategies and goals, whic...