Unsedated esophagogastroduodenoscopy (UEGD) is generally safe and can be well tolerated [1,2]. The proportion of patients undergoing diagnostic EGD without sedation has been increasing over the past decade, and previous studies suggest that many patients who receive adequate information about the procedure now choose not to have sedation [3,4]. In Thailand, most of diagnostic and screening EGDs...

We study the query evaluation problem in probabilistic databases in the presence of probabilistic existential rules. Our focus is on the Datalog± family of languages for which we define the probabilistic counterpart using a flexible and compact encoding of probabilities. This formalism can be viewed as a generalization of probabilistic databases, as it allows to generate new facts from the give...

We present the pseudosquares prime sieve, which finds all primes up to n. Define p to be the smallest prime such that the pseudosquare Lp > n/(π(p)(logn)); here π(x) is the prime counting function. Our algorithm requires only O(π(p)n) arithmetic operations and O(π(p) log n) space. It uses the pseudosquares primality test of Lukes, Patterson, and Williams. Under the assumption of the Extended Ri...

Increasing the use of speech-generating devices (SGDs) would improve the quality of life of children with verbal impairments. In this study, SGDs are used as interfaces to robots to motivate children to increase use of their SGD. In this paper, the development process and user test sessions are described. Possible activities with this system are suggested for future studies.