BACKGROUND Delay in calling emergency medical services following stroke limits access to early treatment that can reduce disability. Emergency medical services contact is mostly initiated by stroke witnesses (often relatives), rather than stroke patients. This study explored appraisal and behavioural factors that are potentially important in influencing witness behaviour in response to stroke. ...

Laboratory research shows that eye-closure during memory retrieval improves both the amount and the factual accuracy of memory reports about witnessed events. Based on these findings, we developed the Eye-Closure Interview, and examined its feasibility (in terms of compliance with the instructions) and effectiveness (in terms of the quantity and quality of reported information) in eyewitness in...

Fundamental building blocks for managing and understanding software evolution in the context of model-driven engineering are differencing operators one can use for model comparisons. Semantic model differencing deals with the definition and computation of semantic diff operators for model comparison, operators whose input consists of two models and whose output is a set of diff witnesses, insta...

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for non-participating women then these predictions estimate participation equation. find that decision is not influenced by their earnings. also show there exists a significant gap employment propensities a...

La pneumatose kystique intestinale est une pathologie rare qui se caractérise par la présence de kystes gazeux dans la paroi intestinale. Elle est asymptomatique ou pauci symptomatique, et le plus souvent découverte lors d'un examen d'imagerie ou d'endoscopie. Nous rapportons un cas de pneumatose iléale compliquée d'un volvulus sur bride chez un patient jamais opéré auparavant. Attribution Lice...

Editor—Sydor and colleagues studied trainee behaviour in a crisis situation, and trainee ability to challenge a decision by a consultant anaesthetist to administer blood to a patient who is a Jehovah’s Witness. This was described as unethical, although perhaps a better term would be ‘in breach of the law’. I would like to put it to the authors that unless the notes were shown to contain the pro...

1. Real Numbers 4 1.1. Approximation of √ 2 4 1.2. Reals, Equality of Reals 5 1.3. The Archimedian Axiom 6 1.4. Nonnegative and Positive Reals 6 1.5. Arithmetical Functions 7 1.6. Comparison of Reals 8 1.7. Non-Countability 11 1.8. Cleaning of Reals 11 2. Sequences and Series of Real Numbers 12 2.1. Completeness 12 2.2. Limits and Inequalities 13 2.3. Series 14 2.4. Redundant Dyadic Representat...

I wish to express my thanks to Dr. Sinclair, for his kindness in personally demonstrating his operatioin to me; to my colleagues of the honorary staff of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, for permission to operate on many of their cases and to Mr. S. B. Smith, for his assistance in the compilation of the records. Particularly do I wish to thank Dr. T. M. Bride and Dr. H. H1. McNabb for their c...