Dedicated and qualified medical direction is required to ensure safe and quality patient care. Medical direction is a fundamental element of the emergency medical services (EMS) system. It is essential that the lead agency for EMS within the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mari...

Standard theories of the influence of a fluctuating director on spin relaxation in nematic liquid crystals are based on the notion that the mean-square angular displacement (8’) of the director is small, such that terms of this and higher orders are negligible. One consequence of this ‘small-angle’ approximation is that director fluctuations contribute only to the spectral density J , ( o o ) a...

Interactive narrative environments offer significant potential for creating engaging narrative experiences that are tailored to individual users. Increasingly, applications in education, training, and entertainment are leveraging narrative to create rich interactive experiences in virtual storyworlds. A key challenge posed by these environments is devising accurate models of director agents’ st...

The Explorer-Director game, first introduced by Nedev and Muthukrishnan, can be described as a game where two players—Explorer Director—determine the movement of token that is positioned on vertices some given graph. At each time step, Explorer specifies distance must move with an aim to maximize total number ultimately visited. However, Director adversarially chooses in effort minimize this nu...