SATS Awards 2016

Editorial: NAR Awards 2016

FY 2011 - FY 2016 Awards

This research project will investigate whether working memory has an impact on the responses participants provide on survey questionnaires. Working memory is a cognitive system that provides both the limited storage for relevant information and the temporary processing needed to perform ongoing mental tasks. When individuals participate in a survey, for each question presented, the participant ...

Sats in the 60s

A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with sudden onset shortness of breath, coughing paroxysms, and a brief loss of consciousness. The emergency medical services (EMS) noted the patient to be diaphoretic and unresponsive, with a prior history of single lung transplantation. His current medications were multiple, without known allergy. Upon ED arrival, the patient was ale...

SATS: A Universal Spectrum Auction Test Suite

For the past 17 years, much of the work on combinatorial auctions (CAs) has used the Combinatorial Auction Test Suite (CATS) by Leyton-Brown et al. [24]. However, CATS does not include a good model for spectrum auctions, which have become the most important application of CAs. In this paper, we make four contributions. First, we propose the Multi-Region Value Model (MRVM) which captures the dif...

BMJ Awards 2016 honour doctor behind "Hello, my name is" campaign.

Kate Granger, a doctor and the founder of the successful “Hello, my name is” campaign, which encourages medical staff to introduce themselves to patients, won a Special Achievement Award at The BMJ Awards 2016 in London on 5 May. Granger, a consultant in geriatric medicine at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHSTrust, whose experiences as a patient with cancer led to the campaign, was the first recipien...