Lecture given at LISHEP95, LAFEX International School of High Energy Physics, Workshop on Heavy Flavors , Rio de Janeiro, February 1995. I have revised the text to incorporate information from the CDF and D discovery papers. I compare the anticipated properties of the top quark with what is known experimentally about the heaviest fermion. I review the scienti c opportunities that will be presen...

We are concerned with formal models of reasoning under uncertainty. Many approaches to this problem are known in the literature e.g. Dempster-Shafer theory, bayesian-based reasoning, belief networks, fuzzy logics etc. We propose rough mere-ology as a foundation for approximate reasoning about complex objects. Our notion of a complex object includes approximate proofs understood as schemes const...

The potential of artificial intelligence in anaesthesia - IJCA- Print ISSN No: 2394-4781 Online No:- 2394-4994 Article DOI 10.18231/j.ijca.2023.024, Indian Journal Clinical Anaesthesia-Indian J Clin Anaesth

INTRODUCTION This study aims to describe the preferences of ophthalmic anaesthesia for cataract extraction among ophthalmologists in Singapore. METHODS A nationwide questionnaire survey of all cataract surgeons in institutional and private practice in Singapore was conducted in August 2004. RESULTS The response rate was 61.1 percent (88 out of 144 eligible ophthalmologists surveyed). Phacoe...

OBJECTIVE When conducting a caesarean section under regional anaesthesia, either epidural anaesthesia or spinal anaesthesia can be used. Patients who underwent caesarean section in our hospital were surveyed retrospectively to confirm and compare the merits and demerits of spinal anaesthesia and epidural anaesthesia to determine the most efficient approach. METHODS Mothers meeting the America...

Objective- The study aims to determine efficacy of propofol as an inmersión agent to induce anesthesia in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Design- Experimental study. Animals- 36 healthy rainbow trout Procedure- Trouts were sorted ramdomly in two groups, 18 fish each one. Both groups were anesthesized by bath, one of them with 2,5 mg/l, the other one at 5 mg/l concentratio...

While Multi Agent Systems (MAS) attracted a great deal of attention in the field of software engineering, with its promises of capturing complex systems, they re­ main far away from commercial popularity mainly due to the lack of a MAS method­ ology that is accessible for commercial developers. In this paper we present a prac­ tical method for developing MAS that we believe will enable not only...

Background: Local Anaesthesia is now being accepted universally as a safe alternative to general anaesthesia for thyroid surgery. Aim: This study was carried out to compare the outcomes of patients undergoing thyroid surgery under local and general anaesthesia. Material and Methods: Hundred patients who underwent thyroid surgery for benign and malignant diseases under local and general anaesthe...