Long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) are found world-wide in the environment, wildlife, and humans. They are bioaccumulative in wildlife and humans, and are persistent in the environment. To date, significant adverse effects have not been found in the general human population; however, significant adverse effects have been identified in laboratory animals and wildlife. Given the long half...

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health: problems and priorities in low-income countries (1). A few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) devoted its World Health Report to Mental health: new understanding, new hope (2), and the Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders:...

There is increasing awareness in the planning community that the burden of specifying complete domain models is too high, which impedes the applicability of planning technology in many real-world domains. Although there have been many learning approaches that help automatically creating domain models, they all assume plan traces (training data) are correct. In this paper, we aim to remove this ...

Long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) are found world-wide in the environment, wildlife, and humans. They are bioaccumulative in wildlife and humans, and are persistent in the environment. To date, significant adverse effects have not been found in the general human population; however, significant adverse effects have been identified in laboratory animals and wildlife. Given the long half...

A PACKAGE of measures designed to overcome growing recruitment and retention problems in Scotland has won only a lukewarm reception from nursing leaders.

In complex environments, a planning system may be faced with incomplete information about both the planning operators and the state of the world. Previous research has investigated policies for selecting the best plan to execute, given incomplete operator descriptions. This paper extends that work to support interleaved planning and execution by taking into account past and current sensor readi...

The rule/plan motor cognition (RPMC) paradigm elicits visually indistinguishable motor outputs, resulting from either plan- or rule-based action-selection, using a combination of essentially interchangeable stimuli. Previous implementations of the RPMC paradigm have used pantomimed movements to compare plan- vs. rule-based action-selection. In the present work we attempt to determine the genera...

As the application field of plan recognition expands continuously, the traditional plan recognition methods have hindered the application of plan recognition in hostile environment, which ignored the defects of misleading action. In this paper, a plan recognition algorithm based on the process of misleading action is proposed under the framework of plan knowledge graph. The method makes it poss...

OBJECTIVE To examine national trends in the receipt of asthma action plans, an intervention recommended by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines. STUDY DESIGN We used data from the sample child component of the National Health Interview Survey from 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2013 to examine the percentage of children 2-17 years of age with asthma (n = 3714) that have ever...