Image: Stockbyte/Artville W HEN THE National Commission on Excellence in Education submitted A Nation at Risk to Secretary of Education Terrel Bell on 26 April 1983, there was little to suggest that this report would shine a spotlight on education that would last a quarter of a century. Indeed, not long after the release of this document, critics were already downplaying its recommendations. “T...

The recognition of high level clinical scenes is fundamental in patient monitoring. In this paper, we propose a technique for recognizing a session, i.e. the clinical process evolution, by comparison against a predetermined set of scenarios, i.e. the possible behaviors for this process. We use temporal constraint networks to represent both scenario and session. Specific operations on networks a...

N. Hoogerwerf, MD PhD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen. J.P. Valk, MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, University Medical Center Groningen. R.J. Houmes MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS Rotterdam H.M. Christiaans MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. L.M.G. Geeraedts jr. MD, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam....

The term déjà vu is used to refer to the feeling of having already witnessed or experienced a current situation, despite the exact circumstances of the prior encounter being unclear. Although the déjà vu experience may be a benign occurrence, it may also be one of the first warning signs of a neurological event such as temporal lobe epilepsy. Symptoms of epilepsy may be difficult to recognize i...

Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiology, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Referral Ce...