See related article on page 21 The biblical quotation above is evidence that children have been dying in their sleep since antiquity, although this phenomenon has been described by several names. Even up to the 1950s physicians commonly thought that infants dying suddenly and unexpectedly had either smothered in their own bedding, or that an adult had “overlaid” them. I never heard of crib deat...

Introduction. In neonatology, various illness severity scores have been developed to predict mortality and morbidity risk in neonates. The aim of our study was to validate the ability of the ‘Clinical Risk Index for Babies’ (CRIB) II score to predict mortality in neonates born before 32 weeks’ gestation in a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), setting. Materials and Methods. Prospectiv...

Morphologic transition from the yeast to the hyphal state in Candida albicans is associated with pathogenicity of this human pathogen. Such invasive transition of C. albicans cells is regulated by numerous cell signal transduction pathways, one of which involves a small GTPase, the C. albicans Cdc42 (CaCdcd42), with specific binding to downstream effectors, e.g., CaCla4 and Cst20, containing CR...

A computer system which aids computer engineers in fault diagnosis is described. The system, called CRIB (Computer Retrieval Incidence Bank) is shown to fit into the class of pattern-directed inference systems. Emphasis is placed on the "before" and "after" phases of system generation and it is shown why, to be called an expert system, these phases are important. The forms of knowledge used in ...