OBJECTIVE To assess whether crude league tables of mortality and league tables of risk adjusted mortality accurately reflect the performance of hospitals. DESIGN Longitudinal study of mortality occurring in hospital. SETTING 9 neonatal intensive care units in the United Kingdom. SUBJECTS 2671 very low birth weight or preterm infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units between 1988 a...

BACKGROUND Rugby league is a collision sport where musculoskeletal injuries are common. There has been little research on generalised joint hypermobility (GJH) as a risk factor for injury in rugby league. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of GJH on the incidence of injuries in first and second team rugby league players from one British university. METHODS We conducted a prospe...

From 2008 on, the RoboCup competitions are going to host four distinct humanoid robot soccer leagues: the Standard Platform League (using the Nao robot of Aldebaran Robotics), the KidSize League (custom robots smaller than 60cm), the 3D Soccer Simulation League, and the TeenSize League (custom robots larger than 100cm). Currently, each of these leagues defines their own rule framework and resea...

Examination of the handling of one recently published book, white supremacist David Duke’s My Awakening, points out some important technologically-driven changes in the way books are marketed. At Duke’s website, copies of the book can be ordered and lengthy excerpts are presented. A detailed review and a different selection of excerpts of My Awakening are presented at the website of an organiza...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are a research topic with ever-increasing importance. This is due to their inherently distributed organization that copes more naturally with real-life problems whose solution requires people to coordinate efforts. One of its most prominent challenges consists on the creation of efficient coordination methodologies to enable the harmonious operation of teams of agents ...

The World Health Organization is currently revising the International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision (ICD-10). A Neurology Task Force Advisory Group [TAG] has been charged with producing a revision that reflects scientific advances and new concepts of pathophysiology since 1992. The ICD codes are used globally to report mortality and morbidity statistics, and they play a vital role in...