Purpose—The aim of this guideline is to provide a focused update of the current recommendations for the endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke. When there is overlap, the recommendations made here supersede those of previous guidelines. Methods—This focused update analyzes results from 8 randomized, clinical trials of endovascular treatment and other relevant data published since 2013....

A central component of the Paralympic mission is to “ … enable Para athletes achieve sporting excellence” (International Committee, 2019, p. 21). sport classification systems per...

The seven-member advisory committee of State officials appointed last summer by Governor Dewey to assist in a study of State employees' salaries is pictured at a recent meeting in Albany with members of the staff of the State Civil Service Department. The committee is now assisting in the conversion of some 76,000 jobs in State service to the 38-grade salary schedule adopted early this year as ...

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A standard classification system for rosacea was published in the April 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.1 Developed by the National Rosacea Society Expert Committee on the Classification and Staging of Rosacea and reviewed by rosacea experts worldwide, it describes primary and secondary features of rosacea and recognizes 4 patterns of signs and symptoms, designa...

Because of the availability of new knowledge about the neurobiology of developmental brain injury, information that epidemiology and modern brain imaging is providing, the availability of more precise measuring instruments of patient performance, and the increase in studies evaluating the efficacy of therapy for the consequences of injury, the need for reconsideration of the definition and clas...

We introduce a new method, called CS4, to construct committees of decision trees for classification. The method considers different top-ranked features as the root nodes of member trees. This idea is particularly suitable for dealing with high-dimensional bio-medical data as top-ranked features in this type of data usually possess similar merits for classification. To make a decision, the commi...

Since the Rye classification for staging was produced in 1965, the significance of 2 important observations with major impact on staging has been appreciated. First, extralymphatic disease, if localized and related to adjacent lymph node disease, does not adversely affect the survival of patients. Patients with localized extralymphatic disease do as well as comparable patients of the same stage...