BACKGROUND The increased frequency of nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) in organ transplant recipients has been termed "catastrophic cutaneous carcinomatosis" (CCC). We have treated a cohort of immunocompetent patients with an increased number of NMSCs that meets the definition of CCC whom we have termed "catastrophic cutaneous carcinomatosis-immunocompetent" (CCC-IC). OBJECTIVE We sought to f...

Power devices are widely used for the power handling portion of the electronic devices for space systems as well as ground-based commercial devices. In our previous study, we investigated the fatal destruction mode called single-event effects (SEEs) in the SiC schottky barrier diode (SiC-SBD) and SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (SiC-MOSFET). SiC is expected to be a candida...

We introduce a variety of models, trained on a supervised image captioning corpus to predict the image features for a given caption, to perform sentence representation grounding. We train a grounded sentence encoder that achieves good performance on COCO caption and image retrieval and subsequently show that this encoder can successfully be transferred to various NLP tasks, with improved perfor...

We present deep communicating agents in an encoder-decoder architecture to address the challenges of representing a long document for abstractive summarization. With deep communicating agents, the task of encoding a long text is divided across multiple collaborating agents, each in charge of a subsection of the input text. These encoders are connected to a single decoder, trained end-to-end usi...

Catastrophic haemorrhage from extremity injuries has for a long time been the single most common cause of preventable death in the military environment. The effective use of extremity tourniquets has increased the survival of combat casualties, and exsanguination from isolated limb injuries is no longer the most common cause of death. Today, the most common cause of potentially preventable deat...

The combination of Turbo codes and space-time block codes is studied for use in CDMA systems. Each user's data are rst encoded by a Turbo code. The Turbo coded data are next sent to a space-time block encoder employing a BPSK constellation. The space-time encoder output symbols are transmitted through the fading channel using multiple antennas. A multistage receiver is proposed using non-linear...

OBJECTIVE To assess the proportion of, and reasons for, households not utilising the policy of free healthcare for children under 6 years of age (FCCU6) for hospitalisation with diarrhoea, and assess the risk of catastrophic expenditure for households that forgo FCCU6 and pay out of pocket. METHODS Invoices detailing insurance information and charges incurred from 472 hospitalised diarrhoeal ...

This paper examines how the two fundamental principles in risk allocation, i.e., the mutuality principle and the transfer principle, can be implemented in order to manage efficiently catastrophic risk. From a decomposition of the insurable loss into idiosyncratic and systemic components, we show that the systemic risk is first filtered through a participating policy with a variable premium base...