Central MessageDespite the challenging pathoanatomy, ascending aorta and aortic arch interventions are constantly developing opening doors for patients previously considered inoperable.“I'd rather die.”—Michael E. DeBakey, MD1Altman L.K. The man on table devised surgery. New York Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/health/25surgeon.htmlDate: December 25, 2006Google ScholarSee Article page ...

Despite substantial growth in the field of conservation planning, the speed and success with which conservation plans are converted into conservation action remains limited. This gap between science and action extends beyond conservation planning into many other applied sciences and has been linked to complexity of current societal problems, compartmentalization of knowledge and management sect...

We present an approach for recovering a global surface model of an object from the deformation of the occluding contour using an active (i.e., mobile) observer able to control its motion. In particular, we consider two problems: (1) How can the observer’s viewpoint be controlled in order to generate a dense sequence of images that allows incremental reconstruction of an unknown surface, and (2)...

Abstract. A simple and straightforward application of reinforcement learning methods to real robot tasks is considerably difficult due to a huge exploration space that easily scales up exponentially since recent robots tend to have many kinds of sensors. One of the potential solutions might be application of so-called “mixture of experts” proposed by Jacobs et al.[1]; it decomposes a whole stat...

BACKGROUND Recent legislation established a requirement for nutrition education in federal assistance programs to be evidence-based. Recruitment of low-income persons to participate and evaluate nutrition education activities can be challenging and costly. Facebook has been shown to be a cost-effective strategy to recruit this target audience to a nutrition program. OBJECTIVE The purpose of o...

Purpose This paper aims to explore health and lifestyle information seeking behaviour by examining the connection between purposive information seeking and information encountering. Design/methodology/approach Data on purposive seeking and information encountering, gathered from postal surveys in 2002 and 2007, were compared. Random samples of 1,000 Icelanders, aged 18 to 80 were used. The resp...