While unsafe abortions have become rare in the United States, the practice persists. We present a 24-year-old female with a 21-week twin gestation who presented to the emergency department with complications of an attempted self-induced abortion. Her complicated clinical course included sepsis, chorioamnionitis, fetal demise, and a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorecto...

While agroforestry is a well-established approach for agroecological intensification, rice less often integrated with trees than other annual staple crops. The benefits and risks from practices have not been systematically explored. Considering the need strategies that may address low fertility high degradation of arable soils contribute to smallholder farm productivity, livelihoods climate res...

T h e question I am going to discuss is the very straightforward and specific one of “why rats turn the way they do, at a given choice-point in a given maze at a given stage of learning.” The first item in the answer is fairly obvious. They turn the way they do because they have on the preceding trials met this same choicepoint together with such and such further objects or situations, down the...

Looking ahead to the time when autonomous cars will be common, Dresner and Stone proposed a multiagent systemsbased intersection control protocol called Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM). They showed that by leveraging the capacities of autonomous vehicles it is possible to dramatically reduce the time wasted in traffic, and therefore also fuel consumption and air pollution. The proposed...