Roche plans for more convenient-to-use Herceptin and Rituxan

Recognizing Text Plans to Use

Measuring blood pressure at the wrist: more comfortable for patients and more convenient for doctors?

OBJECTIVES To compare the agreement between conventional measurement of blood pressure and measurements obtained using two automated devices; and to compare how comfortable each of the three methods of measurement were for patients. METHODS Blood pressure measurements and patient comfort scores were recorded using three different devices in 125-surgery and 40-community patients. The devices u...

More psychiatrists attack plans for DSM-5.

The authors of the 5th edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), due to be published in May 2013, have responded to previous criticisms of their text by announcing a further series of changes. But far from mollifying their critics, these concessions have served to ignite a further and still more vituperative barrage of disse...

Making Shared Plans More Concise and Easier to Reason About

SharedPlans is a general theory of collaborative planning that accommodates multi-level action decomposition hierarchies and ex-plicates the process of expanding partial plans into full plans 5, 6]. This paper presents a reformulation of SharedPlans that simpliies the Shared-Plans deenitions without sacriicing their expressiveness, and enables the speciication of conditions under which a set of...

a benchmarking approach to optimal asset allocation for insurers and pension funds

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...