Unorthodox allergy procedures.

Unorthodox allergy procedures.

Unorthodox Methods in Scaphoid Fractures

Two Types of Fracture There' are roughly two main types of fracture of the waist of the carpal scaphoid. In type I there is a crack in the bone with negligible or no displacement, whilst in type II fractures there is an appreciable gap and some degree of displacement. The prognosis is best in type I and frequently the cartilage over the fracture line is intact. McLaughlin (1954) decided to trea...

Unorthodox Optimal Foraging Theory

As the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB) eld continues to mature, it is essential that general methodological positions become elaborated into practical programmes of research. This paper describes how a particular avour of SAB modelling the use of genetic algorithms to design situated agent (animat) architectures-can eeec-tively complementòptimal foraging theory', as it is understood in t...

A World Allergy Organization International Survey on Diagnostic Procedures and Therapies in Drug Allergy/Hypersensitivity

OBJECTIVE To study the diagnostic and treatment modalities used in drug allergy/hypersensitivity among members of the World Allergy Organization (WAO). METHODS A questionnaire comprising 39 questions was circulated electronically to member societies, associate member societies, and regional and affiliate organizations of WAO between June 29, 2009, and August 9, 2009. RESULTS Eighty-two resp...

Lingua machinae - an unorthodox proposal

Voice User Interfaces (VUI) are slowly emerging into today’s IT applications. A decade ago, members of the speech science community (as well as market analysts) predicted a much faster growth of commercial VUI usage and are now wondering why the acceptance was so moderate during the last five years. One reasons for this is certainly the difficult economic situation since the crash of the new te...