We read with interest the study by Babl et al published in the EMJ in November 2008. Central to the protocol and management is the use of clinical assessment to determine adequacy and depth of analgesia/sedation. We agree with this wholeheartedly and support this method as it emphasises the importance of conscious sedation as an adjunct to therapy, rather than unconscious sedation to compensate...

This study examined the effect of mood on predictive sentence processing by older adults. A self-paced reading task was implemented among a group younger adults and to measure their performance in online processing. Half sentences were highly predictable, whereas other half lowly predictable. Music used induce positive or negative mood. Results show that condition, predictable processed more ef...

Decades of research have sought to improve transaction processing performance and scalability in database management systems (DBMSs). Far less attention has been dedicated to the predictability of performance—how often individual transactions exhibit execution latency far from the mean. Performance predictability is vital when transaction processing lies on the critical path of an interactive w...