The last several years have seen the completion of five pivotal outcomes trials evaluating three novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) in . 55 000 patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) from around the world. 5 Each of these studies has shown that the respective new agent is at least as efficaciousas, if not superior to, warfarin in reducing stroke or non-central nervous system embolism; all three ...

Influence Maps have been successfully used in controlling the navigation of multiple units. In this paper, we apply the idea to the problem of simulating a kiting behavior (also known as “attack and flee”) in the context of real-time strategy (RTS) games. We present our approach and evaluate it in the popular RTS game StarCraft, where we analyze the benefits that our approach brings to a StarCr...

The operational space formulation (Khatib, 1987), applied to rigid-body manipulators, describes how to decouple task-space and null-space dynamics, and write control equations that correspond only to forces at the end-effector or, alternatively, only to motion within the null-space. We would like to apply this useful theory to modern humanoids and other legged systems, for manipulation or simil...

4. Farley MM, Harvey RC, Stull T, et al. A population-based assessment of are rare in adults, routine screening for GBS, as done before delivinvasive disease due to group B streptococcus in nonpregnant adults. ery to prevent GBS infection in neonates, is not economically N Engl J Med 1993;328:1807–11. feasible. 5. Sarmiento R, Wilson FM, Khatib R. Group B streptococcal meningitis in adults: cas...

By following Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) requirements, all of the Spanish NPP ́s performed plant specific PSA level 2 studies and implemented Severe Accident Management Guidelines during the first years of this century. CSN and contractors made an independent detailed review of these PSA level 2 studies (Khatib-Rahbar 1997 2002). This independent review included the performance of plant s...