Sindbad the survivor

Sindbad : from Cad Model to Synthetic Radiographs

The Burn Survivor Perspective.

The burn survivor’s perspective is critical in helping focus the priorities for burn research during the next 10 years. The goal of medical science it to improve outcomes and the lives of those we serve. As individuals who have experienced a burn injury, burn survivors can provide an important and unique perspective. There have been numerous advances in burn care and, as was discussed in the fi...

Survivor Swaps

This paper discusses the possible uses of survivor swaps as instruments for managing, hedging and trading mortality-dependent risks. Survivor swaps are attractive instruments for insurance companies that need to manage their mortality risks, but also offer banks, securities firms, hedge funds and other interested parties an easy avenue into the acquisition of mortality risk exposure. The paper ...

Per-Survivor Processing (PSP)

The principle of Per-Survivor Processing (PSP) provides a general framework for the approximation of likelihood-based data detection (search) algorithms whenever the presence of unknown quantities prevents the precise use of the classical Viterbi Algorithm (VA). The PSP concept is based on the realization that decision-directed estimation of the relevant unknown parameters should be embedded in...

A Balamuthia survivor

INTRODUCTION This case report describes a human survivor of Balamuthia mandrillaris infection. This is a free-living amoeba that can cause infection with the devastating consequence of near universally fatal encephalitis. We report this case to demonstrate the possibility of recovery. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old Hispanic male, a landscape gardener, presented to the hospital in March 2010 ...