OBJECTIVE To develop a list of look-alike drug names with tall man letters, which will facilitate and standardize the implementation of this technique in safety practices designed to reduce errors caused by look-alike names. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two structured surveys were carried out. The first survey included 46 pairs, groups, or individual look-alike drug names with tall man letters from t...

A medical student interested in Emergency Medicine (EM) will find acceptance into residency to be competitive and possibly difficult. An applicant should become aware of the qualities valued by EM residency directors. In the pre-clinical years, an applicant should do well in the basic sciences, perform well on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, and find an appropria...

Notations: We use bold face small letters to denote vectors and bold face capital letters to denote matrices. We use A>, A−1, |A| and trace(A) to denote the transpose, inverse, determinant and trace of a matrix A, respectively. We use ‖b‖2 to denote the squared `2 norm of a vector b. A 0 means A is symmetric and positive semidefinite. We use R to denote the set of real numbers and E to denote e...

It is shown that it is possible to define quantum field theory of a massless scalar free field on the event horizon of a 2D-Rindler spacetime. Free quantum field theory on the horizon enjoys diffeomorphism invariance and turns out to be unitarily and algebraically equivalent to the analogous theory of a scalar field propagating inside Rindler spacetime, nomatter the value of the mass of the fie...

We present a novel cortical correspondence method employing group-wise registration in a spherical parametrization space for the use in local cortical thickness analysis in human and non-human primate neuroimaging studies. The proposed method is unbiased registration that estimates a continuous smooth deformation field into an unbiased average space via sulcal curve-constrained entropy minimiza...

3. Prerequisites for the workshop. They are mentioned or reviewed in sect. 1 of [17]: class field theory, especially local class field theory; elliptic curves over finite, local and global fields, some basic things about the set of Diophantine geometry conjectures the theory of Mochizuki deals with, basics of (classical) anabelian geometry. For the latter Ch.4 of [21] is a very easy to read sou...

Multiple-resident activity recognition is a major challenge for building a smart-home system. In this paper, conditional random fields (CRFs) are chosen as our activity recognition models for overcoming this challenge. We evaluate our proposed approach with several strategies, including conditional random field with iterative inference and the one with decomposition inference, to enhance the co...

We tested the state of retinal correspondence at different positions in the visual field of ten observers with strabismic and/or anisometropic amblyopia, four strabismic subjects with alternating fixation and three normal controls. Correspondence was evaluated by the subjective displacement of dichoptic stimuli; to estimate the displacement, we used red-green filters, Bagolini striated glasses,...

In this paper we address the problem of automatic arrangement of cameras in a 3D system to enhance the performance of depth acquisition procedure. Lacking ground truth or a priori information, a measure of uncertainty is required to assess the quality of reconstruction. The mathematical model of iso-disparity surfaces provides an efficient way to estimate the depth estimation uncertainty which ...