The best arguments for the 1/3 answer to the Sleeping Beauty problem all require that when Beauty awakes on Monday she should be uncertain what day it is. I argue that this claim should be rejected, thereby clearing the way to accept the 1/2 solution. 1 Inertia and Sleeping Beauty If on Monday you confidently and rationally believe that Slippery Slim is guilty, and from Monday to Tuesday you ga...

With the current national emphasis on translational research, data-exchange systems that can bridge the basic and clinical sciences are vital. To meet this challenge, we have developed Slim-Prim, an integrated data system (IDS) for collecting, processing, archiving, and distributing basic and clinical research data. Slim-Prim is accessed via user-friendly Web-based applications, thus increasing...

Slim endoscopes can be passed through gastrostomy tracts, but dilation is required for the passage of standard endoscopes, which may result in tract disruption. Large-diameter covered self-expandable metal stents (CSEMS) have been placed through percutaneous tracts to enable endotherapy. A 20-year-old man underwent complex thoraco-abdominal surgery following traumatic injury, resulting in a cer...

BACKGROUND Scientific guidelines recommend the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale for ischemic stroke assessment. However, many nurses find "slim" National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale versions or the Glasgow Coma Scale easier to use. OBJECTIVE To compare 3 "slim" versions of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and the Glasgow Coma Scale with the full National Institut...

Structures for lossless ion manipulations (SLIM) have recently demonstrated the ability for near lossless ion focusing, transfer, and trapping in subatmospheric pressure regions. While lossless ion manipulations are advantageously applied to the applications of ion mobility separations and gas phase reactions, ion introduction through ring electrode ion funnels or more conventional ion optics t...

Development of complex systems is a collaborative effort spanning disciplines, teams, processes, software tools, and modeling formalisms. Increasing system complexity, reduction in available resources, globalized and competitive supply chains, and volatile market forces necessitate that a unified model-based systems engineering environment replace ad-hoc, document-centric and point-to-point env...

– A hierarchical fuzzy model is proposed in this paper. The concept of relevance has enabled the measurement of the relative importance of rule sets and the Separation of Linguistic Information Methodology (SLIM) provided a means to organize its information in different structures. Based on this methodology a new SLIM-PCS algorithm is proposed for the Parallel Collaborative Structure (PCS). As ...