Patients suffering from severe orbital trauma are at risk for numerous complications, including orbital compartment syndromes. This can result in an afferent pupillary defect, which must be evaluated for on physical examination. Unfortunately, these at-risk patients are often challenging to examine properly due to surrounding edema. Point-of-care ultrasonography can be used as an adjunct to the...

Managing mechanical ventilation in patient with bronchopleural fistula with coexisting acute respiratory distress syndrome is a challenging situation for the intensivist. We are reporting a case of a pregnant patient with systemic lupus erythematosus on immunosuppressive medications who developed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing pneumonia complicated by bronchopleural fis...

Concurrent infections with more than one etiological agent can result in an illness with overlapping symptoms, resulting in a situation where the diagnosis and management of such a patient could be challenging. We report a case of vivax malaria in a patient who was also serologically positive for leptospirosis and dengue.

INTRODUCTION Fournier's gangrene is characterized by tissue ischemia leading to rapidly progressing necrotizing fasciitis. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a patient with Fournier's gangrene after third-degree burns. Clinical manifestations, laboratory results and treatment options are discussed. CONCLUSION Fournier's gangrene is a surgical emergency. Although it can be lethal, it i...

Children with disabilities are a fast-growing group in all societies, and their situation is often strained not only by their disability itself but also by a lot of other challenging circumstances they have to face. What are included in these challenging situations and what can we as qualitative researchers do to improve their situation? It is estimated that about 15Á20% of all people in the wo...

Situation calculus has been applied widely in artificial intelligence to model and reason about actions and changes in dynamic systems. Since actions carried out by agents will cause constant changes of the agents’ beliefs, how to manage these changes is a very important issue. Shapiro et al. [22] is one of the studies that considered this issue. However, in this framework, the problem of noisy...

This paper presents a logical approach to formalization of some aspects of multi-agent systems in an incompletely known world. The contribution on this regard is as follows. We formalized reasoning about concurrent actions inside the situation calculus framework which has the suuciently clear and well-understood semantics to express diierent aspects of agent theory. Conclusions can be drawn by ...

We propose a simple relaxation of Reiter’s basic action theories, based on fluents without successor state axioms, that accommodates incompleteness beyond the initial database. We prove that fundamental results about basic action theories can be fully recovered and that the generalized framework allows for natural specifications of various forms of incomplete causal laws. We illustrate this by ...

Obligation change raises the “frame problem” which is to characterise what obligations remain unchanged after an action has been performed. Many general solutions have been proposed but even if they are attractive from a thoretical point of view they have practical draw-

This paper examines the semantics of a group of logical techniques, used by the Artificial Intelligence community, and which are fundamental for circumscriptionbased approaches to the situation calculus. At first sight, this calculus appears to be an operationalised version of David Lewis’ account of causal reasoning: there are items – here called ‘situations’ – which are analogous to Lewis’ po...