reinforced tubes are commonly used to minimize the opportunity of upper airway obstruction in patients at risk. there are a few reports of the airway obstruction resulted from kinked reinforced tubes. this report describes the obstruction of a reinforced tube in an adult patient who underwent tonsillectomy. under general anesthesia; an armoured endotracheal tube was inserted into the trachea un...

It is a pleasure for me to attend the SEACEN-CEMLA Conference, as it offers me a new opportunity to describe and explain to my esteemed colleagues from other parts of the world the experience of the ECB’s monetary policy over the past four years of crisis. I would also like to take the opportunity to discuss with you what I consider to be some of the main challenges that modern central banking ...

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Business process models are a suitable means to describe the temporal and logical order of tasks for achieving a given goal. Therefore they become crucial in the coordination of intervention actions to efficiently recover from a disaster or tragic event. Past experience is vital in handling these scenarios, but every new emergency would almost always present peculiar characteristics. So althoug...

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We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, and that these changes are often a result of concessions made as a result of the riots. This provides evidence that low-intensity conflict can have a substantial short-run impact on democratic change, and supports the “window of opportunity” hypothesis: droughts lead to an incre...

This paper addresses the problem of guaranteed delivery of messages with hard deadlines in a DQDB network. We present a cyclic reservation scheme capable of allocating bandwidth with any arbitrary granular-ity and provide deterministic delay guarantees. We propose two implementations of the allocation scheme within the framework of DQDB medium access control protocol. The proposed implementatio...

When students analyze and present original data they have collected, and hence have a cultivated sense of curiosity about the data, student learning is enhanced. It is often difficult to provide students an opportunity to practice their skills, use their knowledge, and gain research experiences during a typical course laboratory. This article describes a model of an out-of-classroom experience ...

Introduction: A multiple-mini interview (MMI) is a type ofstructured interview, which may assess many non-cognitivedomains in residency applicants. There are few studies on MMIduring the emergency medicine (EM) residency admissionsprocess in the United States. We sought to determine the strengths,weaknesses, and acceptability of a pilot MMI for EM residencyadmissions.Methods: We piloted a five-...