SATS Awards

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...

Sats can be used for mortality prediction

Methods We did not find any publication reporting mortality prediction using SATS. To determine mortality prediction, we decided to use data from patients admitted to the Hopital Nap Kenbe of MSF in Port au Prince, Haiti. Data from 5813 patients admitted to that institution from 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2014 were used. Age of the patients, motif of admission according to MSF classification, triage c...

Image awards

Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

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