Revise Respiratory Event Criteria or Revise Severity Thresholds for Sleep Apnea Definition?

It's time to revise the definition of status epilepticus.

Generalized, tonic-clonic status epilepticus is well recognized as a common neurologic emergency requiring prompt treatment. The diagnosis is usually not difficult, other than for patients with prolonged seizures, who often develop increasingly subtle clinical features (1,2). There also appears to be a consensus among physicians regarding treatment (3). Nonetheless, there is a major, persistent...

Revise Saturated Activation Functions

In this paper, we revise two commonly used saturated functions, the logistic sigmoid and the hyperbolic tangent (tanh). We point out that, besides the well-known non-zero centered property, slope of the activation function near the origin is another possible reason making training deep networks with the logistic function difficult to train. We demonstrate that, with proper rescaling, the logist...

Is Apnea-Hypopnea Index a proper measure for Obstructive Sleep Apnea severity?

Why and How to Revise

Achieving this state of mind is difficult. First, you might be very attached to what you've written. You may be unwilling to change a word, let alone three or four paragraphs. Second, there is the matter of time: you sense that the paper needs major work, but it's due tomorrow, or you have an exam in physics, or you're coming down with a cold and know that you need to sleep. Third, you may have...

Acellular Pertussis Vaccines and Pertussis Resurgence: Revise or Replace?

The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) in countries with high vaccination coverage is alarming and invites reconsideration of the use of current acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines, which have largely replaced the old, reactogenic, whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine. Some drawbacks of these vaccines in terms of limited antigenic composition and early waning of antibody levels could be antici...