OBJECTIVES The objective was to evaluate the use and utility of a novel set of emergency department discharge instructions (DIs) for concussion based on a child's ongoing symptoms: symptom-guided DIs (symptom DIs). Differences in clinical outcomes were also assessed. METHODS A convenience sample of 114 children aged 7 to 17 years presenting to an urban pediatric emergency department with a co...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Alcohol abuse complicates treatment of HIV disease and is linked to poor outcomes. Alcohol pharmacotherapies, including disulfiram (DIS), are infrequently utilized in co-occurring HIV and alcohol use disorders possibly related to concerns about drug interactions between antiretroviral (ARV) medications and DIS. METHOD This pharmacokinetics study (n=40) examined the e...

The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) IEEE-1278.1 standard is used in many military simulations. The binary data format for DIS does not lend itself to use in emerging web services standards or data analysis and storage tools because the data format is not recognized by most general purpose data manipulation tools. We examine an alternate XML-based representation of DIS information. An X...

Artykuł poddaje analizie krótki tekst J 19,41. Owocem badań – po określeniu kontekstu tego wersetu (punkt 1) jest zidentyfikowanie w nim takich figur retorycznych, jak: conexio, inclusio, amplificatio per incrementum i recapitulatio 2) oraz allitteratio 3). Ostatnia z nich, oparta na syntagmie οὐδέπω οὐδείς („nigdy nikt”), stanowi hapax legomenon całym greckim Starym Nowym Testamencie podkreśla...

The article provides lexical statistical analysis of K. Vonnegut's two novels and their Russian translations. It is found out that there happen some changes between the speed of word types and word tokens ratio change in the source and target texts. The author hypothesizes that these changes are typical for EnglishRussian translations, and moreover, they represent an example of Baker's translat...

Unknown words are a challenge for any NLP task, including sentiment analysis. Here, we evaluate the extent to which sentiment polarity of complex words can be predicted based on their morphological make-up. We do this on German as it has very productive processes of derivation and compounding and many German hapax words, which are likely to bear sentiment, are morphologically complex. We presen...