Health Services and Outcomes Research Cost-Effectiveness of Defibrillator Therapy or Amiodarone in Chronic Stable Heart Failure: Results From the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) Daniel B. Mark, MD, MPH; Charlotte L. Nelson, MS; Kevin J. Anstrom, PhD; Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD; Anastasios A. Tsiatis, PhD; Patricia A. Cowper, PhD; Nancy E. Clapp-Channing, RN, MPH; Linda Davidso...

There are high variability in children's speech compared to adults' which is mainly because of their shorter vocal tract length and smaller vocal fold which results in lower accuracy in speech recognition task (about 54.5% in this work). Therefore using adaptation techinques which reduce these variabilities has been suggested. In this paper we focused on the problem of speech recognition for Pe...

Chorea Gravidarum (CG) is a rare movement disorder characterized by rapid, irregular randomly distributed involuntary movements during pregnancy (Wild and Tabrizi 2007; Karageyim et al. 2002). The symptoms begin during the first trimester in 50% of cases, resolve spontaneously before labor in 33% of cases and in 66% post labor, but may reoccur during subsequent pregnancies. Rhabdomyolysis, hype...

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Radical/extremist Islamist actors use social media to disseminate uncompromising stories of monist religious political orders and identities. As a reaction, counter-movements online radicalism/extremism emerged in Western societies (and beyond), while uncertainty about effective outcomes remains widespread. In bid understand how inclusionary exclusionary discursive spaces are created, we ask: H...

Preface The work presented in this report has been done during a one-year post-doctoral visit, from february 93 to february 94, to the Robotics laboratory of the Stanford University. Frederick Garcia was invited by Prof. Oussama Khatib to work on the ne motion assembly planning problem. Linda Tomasini, who was at this time visiting the Information System Laboratory in the team of Prof. Bernard ...

Modern robotics (Siciliano & Khatib, 2008) trends not only to be reliable, cheap, autonomous, but also cognitive, adaptive, safe and friendly for users (Dodd, 2007). New generation of robot systems is capable of self-configuration (Shen at al., 2006), self-diagnostics and self-healing (Mokhtar et. al., 2008), possesses enough sensing features and computational intelligence on board not only to ...

Trajectory planning consists in finding a way to get from a starting position to a goal position while avoiding obstacles within a given environment or navigation space. Harmonic functions may be used as potential fields for trajectory planning (Connolly et al., 1990). Such functions do not have local extrema (unlike other potential based methods as in (Khatib, 1986)), so that control algorithm...