In a recent special issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Daniel Talmor presented a very nice review of airway management during a mass-casualty event.1 He rightly pointed out that only experienced clinicians should perform intubation in these circumstances, and that training clinicians for the sole purpose of providing intubation during a mass-casualty event is unwise. He also listed anesthesiologists, c...

New Paradigm: • Prototype Priming, i.e. RTs are measured. Learn set: • Stimuli grouped with the target according to their similarity with the prototype. • Overall 1400 presentations of stimulus samples, i.e. 700 RTs. Test set: • New stimuli. • One half grouped analogously to learn set (Sti1), the other half inversely (Sti2). • 100 presentations overall, i.e. 2x25 RTs. Control group: • No groupi...

BACKGROUND Tracheostomy is a common surgical procedure performed on critically ill patients. However, little is known about how clinicians make decisions to decannulate patients, and whether similar decisions are made by respiratory therapists (RTs) and physicians. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey of RTs (n = 52) and physicians (n = 102) at 54 medical centers in North America, to...

In a 7-year longitudinal study 292 Bovelder beef cows in a restricted breeding system in South Africa were observed from 1 to 2 days before their first breeding season, when reproductive tract scoring (RTS, scored from 1 to 5) was performed, until weaning their 5th calves. The objective was to determine whether pre-breeding RTS in heifers is a valid tool to predict long-term reproductive perfor...

Regression testing is crucial but can be extremely costly. Regression Test Selection (RTS) aims to reduce regression testing cost by only selecting and running the tests that may be a!ected by code changes. To date, various RTS techniques analyzing at di!erent granularities (e.g., at the basic-block, method, and "le levels) have been proposed. RTS techniques working on "ner granularities may be...

All Rights Reserved iv Dedication This thesis is dedicated to my parents. They have supported me in my studies. and feedback on this thesis. I would also like to thank all the faculty members and staff of Indiana University South Bend who have taught and helped me during my studying. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for their support and patience. Abstract The RTS/CTS mechanism is an o...

Total station has been predominantly applied in stationary survey scenarios in construction. With the moving target tracking and point survey automation functions, a robotic total station (RTS) lends itself well to more dynamic applications. Nevertheless, a RTS unit is still unable to track multiple targets simultaneously or to survey a target point when the line-of-sight is temporarily unavail...

In a recent special issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Daniel Talmor presented a very nice review of airway management during a mass-casualty event.1 He rightly pointed out that only experienced clinicians should perform intubation in these circumstances, and that training clinicians for the sole purpose of providing intubation during a mass-casualty event is unwise. He also listed anesthesiologists, c...

In a recent special issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Daniel Talmor presented a very nice review of airway management during a mass-casualty event.1 He rightly pointed out that only experienced clinicians should perform intubation in these circumstances, and that training clinicians for the sole purpose of providing intubation during a mass-casualty event is unwise. He also listed anesthesiologists, c...