We consider a new type of asymmetric rendezvous search problem in which player II needs to give I ‘gift’ can be the form information or material. The gift either transfered upon meeting, as traditional rendezvous, it dropped off by at location he passes, hope will found I. might water bottle for traveller lost desert; supply cache Captain Scott Antarctic; important (left gift). common aim two p...

The cytokinetics of marrow recovery were compared in patients receiving a standard exposure to high-dose methotrexate followed by either thymidine rescue, leucovorin rescue at the doses used in most clinical protocols (10 mg/sq m every 6 hr), or leucovorin rescue at a 5-fold higher dose rate (50 mg/sq m every 6 hr). Thymidine rescue initiated a prompt recovery of DNA synthesis, as detected by [...

BACKGROUND Virus rescue from transfected cells is an extremely useful technique that allows defined viral clones to be engineered for the purpose of rational vaccine design or fundamental reverse genetics studies. However, it is often hindered by low primary rescue success rates or yields, especially with field-derived viral strains. APPROACH We investigated the possibility of enhancing influ...

The UvA Rescue Team will participate in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League by employing a Simultaneous Planning, Localization and Mapping (SPLAM) approach. This approach augments traditional SLAM approaches with Planning in order to accomplish the set tasks. In this approach SLAM is modeled as one of the potential subgoals that may enable completion of the overall task. The benefit of this ap...

During its third year, the research work on the RESCUE project was spread over several topics of short and long term application to real robots and scenarios, some of them new within the project, others extending past activities. This slightly more detailed report of the activity carried out during year 3 summarizes the progresses made. It is composed of three main sections (navigation, distrib...

The aims of this study were: To describe the prevalence of Emergency Department (ED) airway management failures requiring rescue maneuvers, to describe successful rescue methods used when the primary method chosen is unsuccessful, and to characterize the roles of emergency physicians and other specialists in rescue airway management. A prospective observational study was conducted of ED airway ...

BACKGROUND The mining industry has one of the highest occupational rates of serious injury and fatality. Mine staff involved with rescue operations are often required to respond to physically challenging situations. This paper describes the physical attributes of mining rescue personnel. METHODS 91 rescue personnel (34 +/- 8.6 yrs, 1.79 +/- 0.07 m, 90 +/- 15.0 kg) participating in the Queensl...

FC Portugal Rescue team is the result of a cooperation project between the Universities of Aveiro and Porto in Portugal. Following previous collaborations of these two Portuguese Universities in RoboCup simulation league and associated competitions, this project intends to fully adapt the coordination methodologies developed by FC Portugal simulated soccer team to the search and rescue scenario...