Recent advances in anesthetic care for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty are summarized. Epidural and spinal anesthesia are associated with reduced perioperative blood loss and lower deep vein thrombosis rates. A new technique of inducing hypotension with epidural anesthesia is described. This technique is associated with low rates of deep vein thrombosis, blood transfusions, and enhan...

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INTRODUCTION In a literature meta-analysis, we showed survival benefits for regimens including cisplatin [hazard ratio (HR) 0.61; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.57-0.66] and for those including etoposide (HR 0.65; 0.61-0.69). That benefit was mainly observed when etoposide alone or in combination with cisplatin was included in the chemotherapy regimens. Our objective was to determine if chemot...

Abs t r ac t Why do we speak? Because we want to influence each other's behavior. The relevance of a speech act can measure its nsefulness. In this paper I argue that (i) the relevance of a speech act depends on the 'language game' one is involved in; (ii) notions of relevance can be defined using decision, information and game theory, and can be used for linguistic applications; and (fii) the ...

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a powerful framework for generative tasks. However, they are difficult to train and tend to miss modes of the true data generation process. Although GANs can learn a rich representation of the covered modes of the data in their latent space, the framework misses an inverse mapping from data to this latent space. We propose Invariant Encoding Generative...

This paper proposes the use of ontologies to provide intelligent virtual environments with semantical information, which can be of great value to the virtual agents inhabiting the world. On the one hand, this approach allows us to define complex objects and to introduce semantic levels of detail that help the agents when sensing complex scenes. On the other hand, the object taxonomy established...

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE Resective surgery is an effective treatment for refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. In difficult cases, invasive monitoring may be needed to precisely lateralise and localise seizure foci of mesial temporal origin. The authors present a modified technique for image guided, endoscopic placement of an intraventricular electrode array (IVE) that abuts the amygdalo-hippocamp...

AIMS The study is an integrated assessment of clinical, image and morphological parameters in severe intracerebral haemorrhages (ICH) complicated with intraventricular extension (IVE). MATERIAL AND METHODS The studied group had 93 cases of patients with ICH and IVE who were hospitalized in the Emergency County Hospital of Craiova and died during hospitalization. The parameters evaluated were ...