The commentator has identified errors in Table 6 (see Corrected Table 6). An error in the “Hospital Cost” formula produced the discrepancy in the value for the “Sequential EUA/TORS” strategy, the cost of EUA/tonsillectomy for all patients plus TORS cost for the 70% whose primary was not found. The corrections do not change the order of the strategies’ costs or effectiveness but do markedly affe...

Flying vertebrates change the shapes of their wings during the upstroke, thereby decreasing wing surface area and bringing the wings closer to the body than during downstroke. These, and other wing deformations, might reduce the inertial cost of the upstroke compared with what it would be if the wings remained fully extended. However, wing deformations themselves entail energetic costs that cou...

background clinical significance of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (esbls) production in enterobacter spp. has not well been established. objectives this study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of esbls produced by enterobacter spp. in clinical isolates. materials and methods this descriptive cross-sectional study was performed during may 2010 to april 2012 in the city of sanandaj,...

background: we aimed to research the value of extended nursing for cerebral stroke patients within a suitable recovery empty period. methods: seventy-two cerebral stroke patients were randomized to a control group or treatment group at the recovery period at xuzhou recovery hospital, china in 2016. a recovery guidance exercise was applied to the control group for a set time, while a recovery gu...

obviously navigation is one of the most complicated issues in mobile robots.intelligent algorithms are often used for error handling in robot navigation. thispaper deals with the problem of inertial measurement unit (imu) error handling byusing extended kalman filter (ekf) as an expert algorithms. our focus is put onthe field of mobile robot navigation in the 2d environments. the main challenge...

introduction: extended spectrum beta-lactamase (esbl) producing escherichia coli generate a major problem for clinical therapeutics and epidemiological study. the incidence of esbl producing strains among clinical isolates has been steadily increasing during the past few years, and remains an important cause of failure of therapy with cephalosporins. the aim of this study was to determine the a...

BACKGROUND Internationally, health care services are under increasing pressure to provide high quality, accessible, timely interventions to an ever increasing aging population, with finite resources. Extended scope roles for allied health professionals is one strategy that could be undertaken by health care services to meet this demand. This review builds upon an earlier paper published in 2006...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of finding the Delay Constrained Least Cost path (DCLC) in a network, which is NP-complete and has been extensively studied. Many proposed algorithms tackle this problem by transforming it into the shortest path selection problem or the k-shortest paths selection problem, which are P-complete, with an integrated weight function that maps the delay and c...