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For two decades, the goal of reperfusion has been restoration of normal epicardial blood flow.1–4 It has, however, become increasingly apparent that not all TIMI grade 3 flow is created equally, and attention has shifted downstream to the restoration of normal myocardial perfusion to fully optimize clinical outcomes.3,4 The goal of this Clinician Update is to provide clinicians with a better un...

The paper uses left and right neighbourhoods as primitive interval modalities to deene other unary and binary modalities of intervals in a rst order logic with interval length. A complete rst order logic for the neighbourhood modalities is presented. The paper demonstrates how the logic can support formal speciication and veri-cation of liveness and fairness, and also of various notions of real...

Objective: To evaluate the state of iodine uptake and frequency of goiter in a previously endemic population after use of iodine salt for ten years. Methodology: In an area in south of Iran following examination of randomly selected 1504, 8-10 year school children, 102 cases with grade 2 or larger goiter were found. One hundred normal cases regarding thyroid examination were also selected as co...

There exists a well-established and almost unanimously adopted measure of tagger performance, namely, accuracy. Although it is perfectly adequate for small tagsets and typical approaches to disambiguation, we show that it is deficient when applied to rich morphological tagsets and propose various extensions designed to better correlate with the real usefulness of the tagger.

SUMMARY Preoperative frailty predicts adverse postoperative outcomes. Recommendations for preoperative assessment of elderly patients include performing a frailty assessment. Despite the advantages of incorporating frailty assessment into surgical settings, there is limited research on surgical health care professionals' perception and use of frailty assessment for perioperative care. We survey...

There are many challenges to be faced when conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in pediatric research. One important challenge is the determination of an appropriate sample size. Recruiting more children than necessary risks unnecessary overexposure of children to an inferior treatment, whereas underestimating the sample required will lead to inconclusive or unreliable results. Both o...

We establish a characterization of adequate knots in terms of the degree of their colored Jones polynomial. We show that, assuming the Strong Slope conjecture, our characterization can be reformulated in terms of “Jones slopes” of knots and the essential surfaces that realize the slopes. For alternating knots the reformulated characterization follows by recent work of J. Greene and J. Howie. 20...

People have long advocated a component-based approach to software construction as a way of simplifying the design and maintenance of large software systems, increasing the opportunities for reuse, and increasing software development productivity. Although the technology for constructing component-based software is relatively advanced, we lack a sufficient theoretical basis for testing component...