Blizzard morbidity and mortality: Rhode Island, 1978.

Current and Projected Heat-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Rhode Island.

BACKGROUND Climate change is expected to cause increases in heat-related mortality, especially among the elderly and very young. However, additional studies are needed to clarify the effects of heat on morbidity across all age groups and across a wider range of temperatures. OBJECTIVES We aimed to estimate the impact of current and projected future temperatures on morbidity and mortality in R...

Infant mortality in Rhode Island: a time trend analysis.

Rhode Island Chapter Abstracts

Title: Three Concurrent Opportunistic Infections in a Patient with Endogenous Cushing''s Syndrome. Abstract Text: Introduction: Hypercortisolemia secondary to endogenous Cushing's syndrome or to exogenous corticosteroid treatment, has long been associated with opportunistic infections. Case Presentation: A 55-year-old male with a history of alcohol and cocaine abuse was admitted to the hospital...

Optimal Rhode Island Hold'em Poker

Rhode Island Hold’em is a poker card game that has been proposed as a testbed for AI research. This game, with a tree size larger than 3.1 billion nodes, features many characteristics present in full-scale poker (e.g., Texas Hold’em). Our research advances in equilibrium computation have enabled us to solve for the optimal (equilibrium) strategies for this game. Some features of the equilibrium...

Cancer and Obesity in Rhode Island.

There is growing evidence that obesity increases the risk of certain cancers and cancer mortality. As obesity rates are projected to rise over the next decade, associated cancer morbidity and mortality present a significant public health concern. This is particularly striking in the state of Rhode Island, where nearly a third of the population is obese. Interventions such as taxation of obesity...