Aunilateral do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR) order iswritten by a physician without permission or assent from the patient or the patient’s surrogate decision-maker. Potential justifications for the use of DNAR orders in pediatrics include the belief that attempted resuscitation offers no benefit to the patient or that the burdens would far outweigh the potential benefits. Another considerati...

In this work we present a quantitative approach to the analysis of cardiorespiratory synchronization, which is a newly discovered phenomenon. The primary aim of this stu+ is to determine whether cardiorespiratory synchronization is a real phenomenon or a random one. We utilized the surrogate data analysis approach. A surrogate data set was constructed ji-om recordings of ECG and respiration obt...

Recently, several researchers have found that cost-based satisficing search with A* often runs into problems. Although some “work arounds” have been proposed to ameliorate the problem, there has been little concerted effort to pinpoint its origin. In this paper, we argue that the origins of this problem can be traced back to the fact that most planners that try to optimize cost also use cost-ba...

A unilateral do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR) order is written by a physician without permission or assent from the patient or the patient's surrogate decision-maker. Potential justifications for the use of DNAR orders in pediatrics include the belief that attempted resuscitation offers no benefit to the patient or that the burdens would far outweigh the potential benefits. Another considera...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate a protocol for a population-based programme targeting the prevention of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) progression by early echocardiographic diagnosis of valvular lesions and timely implementation of secondary prevention. DESIGN Observational survey with a subsequent prospective cohort study. SETTING Private boarding school in the urban area of the Sunsari district si...

Aunilateral do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR) order iswritten by a physician without permission or assent from the patient or the patient’s surrogate decision-maker. Potential justifications for the use of DNAR orders in pediatrics include the belief that attempted resuscitation offers no benefit to the patient or that the burdens would far outweigh the potential benefits. Another considerati...

BACKGROUND Parental concerns about their children's development can be used as an indicator of developmental risk. We undertook a systematic review of the prevalence of parents' concerns as an indicator of developmental risk, measured by the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) and associated risk factors. METHODS Electronic databases, bibliographies and websites were searched a...

The objective of this study was to examine agreement between self-reported and medically recorded self-harm, and investigate whether the prevalence of self-harm differs in questionnaire responders vs. non-responders. A total of 4,810 participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) completed a self-harm questionnaire at age 16 years. Data from consenting participan...

Added credits to the s∗ACM-ES algorithm. Section 1 Added references and clarified the motivation. Section 3 Added references. Abstract: The interest in accelerating black-box optimizers has resulted in several surrogate model-assisted version of the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy, a state-of-the-art continuous black-box optimizer. The version called Surrogate CMA-ES uses Gaussi...