Weaning comprises 40 percent of the duration of mechanical ventilation. Protocols to reduce weaning time and to identify candidates at the earliest possible moment have been introduced to reduce complications and costs. Increased demand for mechanical ventilation, an increase in the number of patients requiring prolonged ventilation, and resource/staffing issues have created an environment whe...

Coplanarity is a relationship of a set of points that exist on a single plane. Coplanarities can be easily observed in a scene with planer surfaces, and these types of coplanarities have been widely used for 3D reconstructions based on geometrical constraints. Other types of coplanarities that can be observed from images are those observed as cross sections of planes and scenes; for example, po...

While plan recognition research has been applied to a wide variety of problems, it has largely made identical assumptions about the number of agents participating in the plan, the observability of the plan execution process, and the scale of the domain. We describe a method for plan recognition in a real-world domain involving large numbers of agents performing spatial maneuvers in concert unde...

BACKGROUND The demography of a coral colony is not a binary trajectory of life and death. Based on the flexibility afforded by colonial organization, most reef-building corals employ a variety of dynamic survival strategies, including growth and shrinkage. The demographic flexibility affects coral size, shape and reproductive output, among other factors. It is thus critical to quantify the rela...

BACKGROUND Pain induced by electrical stimuli has been found in previous research to be reduced by brief, weak electrical pulses, termed prepulses, presented 40 to 60ms prior to the painful electrical stimulus. METHODS The present experiment investigated the generality of this effect by presenting weak acoustic stimuli simultaneously with, or 80 or 1000ms prior to, painful electric shocks. In...

Careers follows p 614 Our Careers section shines the light on two researchers who are leading the way in their respective fields. Professor Helena Teede is an endocrinologist clinician–researcher who led a team that developed the world’s first evidence-based guidelines for polycystic ovary syndrome. She is professor of women’s health at Monash University in Melbourne and director of the Monash ...

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Mobile objects are frequently confined to move on a ground surface which, locally at least, is approximately flat. Existing structure-from-motion (SFM) algorithms make no use of real-world motion constraints of this kind. In this paper we present a simple novel SFM algorithm whereby the above motion constraints can be conveniently incorporated into the constraint equations on the relative depth...

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The proposal AgLOTOS algebraic language is dedicated to the specification of agent plans in ambient systems (AmI). From its two level specification, plans can be built automatically as a system of concurrent processes. In this context, we show how to achieve a powerful mechanism for a contextual guidance based on a specific and formal construction called Contextual Planning System (CPS). The CP...