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Introduction: A view of Rhode Island pediatrics.

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...

Eosinophilia secondary to strongyloides in Rhode Island.

With an increase in travel and an influx of immigrants and refugees from the tropics over the last few decades, clinicians in Rhode Island are more commonly encountering tropical diseases. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that the average annual rate of increase in the foreign-born population in Rhode Island to be 2400 persons, with the Dominican Republic and Guatemala t...

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...

Geographers and globalization: the future of regional geography Introduction

Introduction Peter Dicken (2004) lamented geographers' missing out on globalization and becoming more parochial in terms of research, and called for a revitalization of regional geography. Indeed, I often feel unsettled by the fact that, from time to time, geographers have to defend the position of geography, especially in recent response to the argument that globalization means the end of geog...