Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) claims the lives of almost 300 000 Americans each year,1 a loss of life equivalent to that caused by a September 11 World Trade Center attack on the United States every 3 days! Despite advances in public education on recognition of cardiac arrest, early notification of emergency medical services (EMS) 9-1-1 centers, lay bystander cardiopulmonary resuscita...

Malware, short term for malicious software, is a software which is developed to penetrate computers in a network without the user’s permission or notification. Malware is a common term for a variety type of malicious software. In general, Malwares include Worm, Botnet, virus, Trojan horse, Backdoor, Rootkit, Logic bomb, Rabbit and Spyware. Despite many works that have been done in the area of M...

Software failures in wireless sensor systems are notoriously difficult to debug. Resource constraints in wireless deployments substantially restrict visibility into the root causes of node-level system and application faults. At the same time, the high cost of deployment of wireless sensor systems often far exceeds the cumulative cost of all other sensor hardware, so that software failures that...

Component-based software is a major design trend in robot software. It brings many benefits to system design, implementation and maintenance. One step in using component-based methods in designing the structure of a robot program is managing the components and the connections between them over time, known as coordination. In this paper we present a framework for coordinating component networks ...

P. Niblett S. Graham The OASIS Web Services Notification (WSN) family of specifications defines a standard interoperable protocol through which Web services can disseminate events. We present here a summary of three WSN specification documents that are currently available: WS-Base Notification, WS-Topics, and WS-Brokered Notification. We conclude with a brief discussion on the use of the notifi...

Syphilis has re-emerged as an important cause of morbidity, mortality and a possible transmission factor in the spread of HIV infection. The control of syphilis requires early identification and treatment of cases. Here the diagnostic tests are reviewed and discussed, including when to think of lumbar puncture for the examination of neurosyphilis. The British, European and American guidelines f...

Intervention: 12 month collaborative care intervention (Improving Mood Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT)) or usual care for depression. Collaborative care intervention: care was delivered by a team consisting of a depression care manager, a psychiatrist, and the participant’s primary care doctor. Treatment options included education, behavioural activation, problem solving tr...

When admission control is used, an online scheduler chooses whether or not to complete each individual job successfully by its deadline. An important consideration is at what point in time the scheduler determines if a job request will be satisfied, and thus at what point the scheduler is able to provide notification to the job owner as to the fate of the request. In the loosest model, often se...