BACKGROUND Prior research has documented the effect of concurrent mobile phone use on medical care. This study examined the extent of hospital registered nurses' awareness of their mobile-phone-associated performance decrements. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare self-reported performance with reported observed performance of others with respect to mobile phone use by hospit...

Three patients with suspected iatrogenic cerebral air embolism had cranial CTs performed within 24 hr of onset of symptoms. One was interpreted as normal, one showed a large, right frontoparietal enhancing lesion, and the third showed evidence of bi-thalamic infarction. Follow-up scans 7 to 10 days later showed either single or multiple enhancing infarcts in all patients. Although CT proved a v...

1 Centre de Référence des Maladies Héréditaires du Métabolisme, Hôpital d’Enfants, CHU Brabois, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France 2 UBC Department of Medical Genetics, Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada 3 Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, Catania, Italy 4 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA 5 Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK 6 Children’...

The paper examines the rise fall and rise of the Liberal International Economic Order over the last 150 years, and critically examines the various hopes and fears in developed and developing countries that this most recent global integration is raising. JEL classification: F02, A13, N70, P16. Address: Dept. of Economics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel.: 310-825 4521 Fax.: 310...

Robotica / Volume 31 / Issue 05 / August 2013, pp 825 835 DOI: 10.1017/S026357471300012X, Published online: 13 February 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S026357471300012X How to cite this article: Liang-Yih Liu and Hsiung-Cheng Lin (2013). Tip-contact force control of a single-link exible arm using feedback and parallel compensation approach. Robotica, 31, pp 8...

Consumer search is clearly costly, but is also tiring. We characterize the intertemporal effects that search fatigue has on oligopoly prices, product proliferation, and consumer assistance (i.e., advice). These effects vary based on whether search is all-or-nothing, fixed sample, or sequential in nature. We perform welfare analysis and highlight the novel empirical implications that our analysi...

Yuanzheng Yang, Hsiou-Chi Liou and Xiao-Hong Sun From Immunobiology and Cancer Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104; Division of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021 Running title: Id1 activates NF-κB during TCR signaling Address correspondences to: Xiao-Hong Sun, Oklahoma Medica...

[This corrects the article on p. 825 in vol. 7, PMID: 27379121.].

Abstract Introduction Medications with Anticholinergic (AC) properties, are prescribed to treat a range of conditions. Older people increasingly likely be multiple AC medications, but also more experience unwanted adverse effects, such as falls and delirium. The risks outcomes increase the number potency medications prescribed. aim this study was use prognostic modelling approach develop an Med...