Purpose: Reducing hospital readmissions for critically ill patients is of concern to payers and providers alike. Patients in cardiogenic shock are often treated with devices to help support the functions of the heart while the patient undergoes treatment. This study compares the readmission experience of Medicare bene ciaries treated for cardiogenic shock (CS) using percutaneous ventricular ass...

ngineering began as an outgrowth of the craftwork of metallurgical artisans. In a constant quest to improve their handiwork, those craftsmen exhaustively and empirically explored the properties— alone and in combination—of natural materials. The knowledge accumulated from this exploration and experimentation with natural building blocks eventually led to today’s modern technologies. We can now ...

It's a matter of great pleasure that Mechanical Engineering Students' Association in our department is publishing the First Edition of its annual magazine. The magazine shares the knowledge of the different conventional & emerging fields of mechanical engineering through its technical articles alongwith general articles which serve as a basis for career of the students. I congratulate the entir...

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...

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A recent study of a magazine distributed by a powerful conservative Christian group determined the organization showed strong concern for “visual culture.” The publication directed its readers on how to understand the seen world. The current study analyzes a periodical of an avowedly secular group to understand how they might manifest similar or different concerns. On the whole, the content of ...

In this article, we present a programming language for expressing classificatory problem solvers. CSRL (Conceptual Structures Representation Language) provides structures for representing classification trees, for navigating within those trees, and for encoding uncertainty judgments about the presence of hypotheses. We discuss the motivations, theory, and assumptions that underlie CSRL. Also, s...