Reducible Epidemics: Choosing Your Saddle

Choosing Your Beliefs

This paper presents and discusses a novel approach to indeterministic belief revision. An indeterministic belief revision operator assumes that, when an agent is confronted with a new piece of information, it can revise its belief sets in more than one way. We define a rational agent not only in terms of what it believes but also of what it desires and wants to achieve. Hence, we propose that t...

Peritrochanteric fractures: choosing your weapon!

INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURES Approximately 50% of intertrochanteric fractures are stable and have minimal or no posteromedial comminution. The remaining 50% are unstable and have posteromedial instability and little resistance to varus deformity.1,4,5 Older rigid devices led to cutout or penetration of the nail as the fracture impacted. In the late 1960s, sliding devices were developed to allow ...

Successfully Choosing Your EMR: 15 Crucial Decisions

ploying their first EMR as well as for those ready to replace their existing EMR with a new one, or an integrated EMR/ computer practice management (CMP) solution, or an EMR that also offers a patient-portal. Recently, the U.S. federal government has expressed its intent to enact widespread health reform. This book details how early adoption of EMR systems by hospitals and private physicians wo...

Choosing your Moment: Interruptions in Multimedia Annotation

In a cooperative mixed-initiative system, timely and effective dialogue between the system and user is important to ensure that both sides work towards producing the most effective results, and this is affected by how disruptive any interruptions are as the user completes their primary task. A disruptive interaction means the user may become irritated with the system, or might take longer to de...

Choosing where to have your baby.