Setting aside high-quality large areas of habitat to protect threatened populations is becoming increasingly difficult as humans fragment and degrade the environment. Biologists and managers therefore must determine the best way to shepherd small populations through the dual challenges of reductions in both the number of individuals and genetic variability. By bringing in additional individuals...

uring the 1980s, thrombolytic therapy became the initial reatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction AMI). Toward the end of the decade, primary percutaneus coronary intervention (PCI) was shown to be effective 1,2), and a recent analysis of 23 randomized trials demontrated improved rates of reinfarction, stroke, and death ompared with thrombolytic therapy (3). However, because f lim...

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The mining industry is among the top ten industries nationwide with high occupational injury and fatality rates, and mine rescue response may be considered one of the most hazardous activities in mining operations. In the aftermath of an underground mine fire, explosion or water inundation, specially equipped and trained teams have been sent underground to fight fires, rescue entrapped miners, ...

Objectives. We sought to assess the angiographic outcome, complication rates and clinical features of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) after failed thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction. Background. “Rescue angioplasty” refers to mechanical reopening of an occluded infarct-related artery (IRA) after failed intravenous thrombolysis. Although the procedure is commonly ...

IMPORTANCE A minority of patients who experience postoperative complications die (failure to rescue). Understanding the preoperative factors that lead to failure to rescue helps surgeons predict and avoid operative mortality. OBJECTIVE To provide a mechanism for identifying a high-risk group of patients with postoperative complications who are at a substantially increased risk for failure to ...

FC Portugal Rescue team is the result of a cooperation project between the Universities of Aveiro and Porto in Portugal. The project started in January 2004 following previous collaborations of these two Portuguese Universities in RoboCup simulation league and associated competitions: coach competition, simulation league presentation competition and simulation 3D competition. FC Portugal Rescue...

So the tonal distinctions of Chinese syllables, for example, learnt so easily by young native speakers become increasingly difficult to recognise and reproduce for older, foreign learners. But researchers are increasingly finding how able young children are at acquiring more than one language at once. “The important precursor to word learning has led to the assumption that vocabulary acquisitio...

In this paper, we optimize the search and rescue (SAR) in disaster relief through agent-based simulation. We simulate rescue teams’ search behaviors with the improved Truncated Lévy walks. Then we propose a cooperative rescue plan based on a distributed auction mechanism, and illustrate it with the case of landslide disaster relief. The simulation is conducted in three scenarios, including “fat...

The Data-At-Risk and Rescue Initiative (DARI), an extension of the international CODATA Data-at-Risk Task Group (DARTG), is investigating how to best document data rescue efforts. This poster reports on a metadata-driven content analysis, and presents a metadata scheme for documenting data rescue. Twenty data rescue projects were reviewed for background context, and seven metadata schemes in th...