In the article ‘‘Patients with a high risk for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: Postoperative respiratory complications’’ by Pereira et al., the authors aim to evaluate the incidence of STOP-BANG score ≥ 3, in surgical patients admitted to the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. It is rather alarming that the reported prevalence of patients with characteristics suggestive of obstructive sleep apnea (OS...

tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.20 77-8939/a 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rig Travel in Latin America, a region with many destinations that pose health specific health risks for travelers, particularly tropical diseases, is increasing. Prevention of such travel-related illness, of necessity, includes appropriate accurate information provided by travel agents [1,2]. These are national and internationa...

A Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical presta aqui uma homenagem à memória do Professor Heonir Rocha pela sua extraordinária contribuição à medicina brasileira, como professor universitário, médico clínico, cientista e como administrador universitário. Em cada uma destas atividades, ele deixou marcadas suas características como um homem inteligente, um arguto observador, excelen...

Peter Pereira is a family physician and a poet. I weave excerpts from Dr. Pereira's poems into a brief history of medicine's mythological and historical roots, beginning with the Egyptian god Thoth, and the Greek physician Hippocrates. Along the way, I touch on the European Middle Ages and the Islamic World. Finally, I quote poet-critic T.S. Eliot, who was an early influence on Dr. Pereira's de...

A strong inductive bias is essential in unsupervised grammar induction. In this paper, we explore a particular sparsity bias in dependency grammars that encourages a small number of unique dependency types. We use part-of-speech (POS) tags to group dependencies by parent-child types and investigate sparsity-inducing penalties on the posterior distributions of parent-child POS tag pairs in the p...

We present derivation proof procedures for extended stable model semantics. Given program II and goal G, G belongs to the well founded model of El iff there is a WFM-derivation for G in II. Likewise, given program II and goal G, G belongs to some extended stable model of II iff there is a XSM-derivation for G in II. Cor-rectness (completeness and soundness) of these procedures is discussed. Exa...

In this lecture we discuss register allocation, which is one of the last steps in a compiler before code emission. Its task is to map the potentially unbounded numbers of variables or “temps” in pseudo-assembly to the actually available registers on the target machine. If not enough registers are available, some values must be saved to and restored from the stack, which is much less efficient t...

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring In article number 2206753, Nathalia O. Gomes and Paulo A. Raymundo-Pereira report on personalized therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for subjects upon intake of acetaminophen oral pill tracking alterations in the analgesic concentration through changes oxidation current target naturally secreted saliva. The non-invasive method is made directly collected saliva at elec...