Daycare thyroid surgery: can it be a reality?

Ridesharing in Muscat: Can it be a Sustainable Solution for the Traffic Congestion?

We deal with developing a Decision Support System (DSS) to promote the ridesharing among both students and staff of a big organization. The DSS includes a set of functions that allow the management of the riders’ requests and drivers’ availability and embeds a novel two-phase optimization approach that helps in defining the optimal riders-drivers matching. The first phase consists o...

Post-operative Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: Can it be Prevented?

Studies have found that risk of delirium after open heart surgeries to be higher as compared to other surgeries and twice as much incidence after valve surgeries as compared to CABG. The cause of delirium after cardiac surgery is not very well known. The triggering of this situation points towards inflammation, acute stress responses and disruption of transmission of neurological pathways due t...

Zuckerkandl tubercle in thyroid surgery: Is it a reality or a myth?

BACKGROUND Zuckerkandl tubercle (ZT) is a lateral projection from the lateral thyroid lobe which is a constant landmark for finding the recurrent laryngeal nerve during thyroid surgery. It is the condensed thyroid parenchyma located in the cricothyroid junction. Even today, ZT and its relationship with recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is not well known by all surgeons. The objectives of the pres...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

It can be smart to be dumb

An important problem in game theory is why bounded rationality occurs, e.g., why altruism to non-kin occurs. Previous explanations involved computational limitations of the players, repeated play among the players etc. As an alternative, we introduce a pre-play step in which each player i chooses a “persona”, i.e., a ficticious utility function she commits to use in the game. By adopting differ...