Prepare | Inbusyprimarycarepractices, the time-honoredhabit of reviewing the patient’s medical record before entering the examination room may be overlooked and several precious minutes of face-to-face timemay be spent silently reviewing themedical recordwith the patient in the examination room. This method is inefficient and can sometimes prove embarrassingwhenapatient reminds thephysicianofwh...

To cite: Nguyen AL, de Kort WJA, Theunissen CCW. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2016-216033 DESCRIPTION Background Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) is the first presentation of Lyme borreliosis in about 3% of patients. This case is important as it reminds physicians that ACA should be considered in the differential diagnosis of non-acute...

We describe a patient who suffered progressive right heart failure of unknown aetiology, despite a lengthy series of hospital investigations. Constrictive pericarditis had not been suspected during life, and was ultimately diagnosed as an autopsy finding. The salient clinical features and confirmatory investigations for this unusual disorder are reviewed. The case reminds us to consider the pos...

In a multicenter, multinational observational study that included neutropenic patients with bloodstream infections by extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing species, Gudiol et al. (Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 61:e00164-17, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00164-17) demonstrated that β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors are effective treatment options. A review of this work, however, reminds us t...

This article first reminds of simulation unification, a non-standard unification proposed at the 18th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2002) for making logic programming capable of querying semistructured data on the Web. This article further argues that, beyond querying semistructured data on the Web, simulation unification has a potential for Web querying of multimedia data...

The AAPL Practice Guidelines for the Forensic Evaluation of Psychiatric Disability reminds treating psychiatrists as well as forensic examiners of the potential for role conflicts and of numerous factors related to handling of treatment records. This commentary suggests ways of more completely avoiding role conflicts, including those related to payment, and elaborates on implementation of requi...

Claude Levi-Strauss reminds us that “the notion of humanity, encompassing, without distinction race or civilization, all forms the human species, is a recent phenomenon and limited expansion … But for major part dozens millennia, this appears totally absent. Humanity stops at frontiers tribe, language group, often even village …” (Finkielkraut 1996, 1).

In this lecture, we study the Belief propagation algorithm(BP) and the Max Product algorithm(MP). Last lecture reminds us of that in MRF, computing the marginal probabilities of random variables and Maximum A Posteriori(MAP) assignment is important. The Belief Propagation algorithm is a popular algorithm that is used to compute marginal probability of random variables. Max Product algorithm is ...

“Oh, Jackson—great, this reminds me,” Bob replied while muting the volume on the football game. “Carol Wilson called this evening right after you left, and Bryan seems to have acquired another respiratory infection. I called in a refill on his antibiotics for the evening and scheduled him for you as an emergency appointment first thing tomorrow. I know with the avian flu going around the last t...

An interphase boundary may be immobilized due to nonlinear diffractional interactions in a feedback optical device. This effect reminds of the Turing mechanism, with the optical field playing the role of a diffusive inhibitor. Two examples of pattern formation are considered in detail: arrays of kinks in 1d, and solitary spots in 2d. In both cases, a large number of equilibrium solutions is pos...