1. Allen LA, Stevenson LW, Grady KL, et al; American Heart Association; Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; Council on Cardiovascular Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention; Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia. Decision making in advanced heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. C...

We use the Allen et al. (2004) Chandra measurements of x-ray gas mass fraction of 26 rich clusters to place constraints on the scalar-field dark energy model with inverse power law potential energy density. The constraints are consistent with, and typically more constraining than, those from other cosmological tests, and mildly favor the Einstein cosmological constant limit of the dark energy m...

Events of regional-scale vegetation mortality appear to be increasing in a variety of biomes throughout the Earth and are frequently associated with increased temperatures, droughts, and often (but not always) with outbreaks of biotic agents such as insects and pathogens (for review, see Allen et al., 2010; Supplemental Information S1). The precise physiological mechanisms underlying plant mort...

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This note comments on the observations of Bernier et al. (2016) regarding errors in Appendix A of Kim and Allen (2013). We acknowledge that the equations in the Appendix are in error, but wish to point out that these equations were not actually used for our analysis. We appreciate their effort in pointing out the errors, and offering corrected equations.

The field of machine ethics has emerged in response to the development of autonomous artificial agents with the ability to interact with human beings, or to produce changes in the environment which can affect humans (Allen, Varner, & Zinser, 2000). Such agents, whether physical (robots) or virtual (software agents) need a mechanism for moral decision making in order to ensure that their actions...

306 5. Bellia V, Pistelli R, Catalano F et al. Quality control of spirometry in the elderly – the SARA study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000; 161: 1094–100. 6. Allen SC, Jain M, Ragab S, Malik N. Acquisition and retention of inhaler techniques require intact executive function in elderly subjects. Age Ageing 2003; 32: 299–302. 7. Allen SC. Competence thresholds for the use of inhalers in people...

The intentional or unintentional release of a harmful atmospheric contaminant is a potentially devastating threat to homeland and defense security. Accurate identification of the source location and intensity is essential to predicting subsequent transport and dispersion of the contaminant. Insufficient spatial and temporal resolution of the available contaminant and wind-field observations mak...

Drought-induced forest mortality is emerging as a widespread phenomenon with potentially large 12 implications for forest function and dynamics (Allen et al., 2010; Anderegg et al., 2012; Martínez13 Vilalta et al., 2012). Although the physiological mechanisms underlying tree mortality are still not 14 completely understood, there is agreement that they involve the storage and transport systems ...