Cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction still has a grim prognosis, with a mortality rate of 50%. Over the last 10 years a steady reduction in mortality has been observed, which is mainly attributed to the increase of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for reperfusion. Another method considered to improve mortality is the use of intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) for m...

The present study focuses on the effect of students’ own characteristics on the their mathematics performance and progress. School context and climate characteristics, as well as the cluster effect of school are considered. Using the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), where students were repeatedly measured and clustered within schools, a 3-level multilevel model is applied. Given tha...

We are living in an uncertain and dynamically changing world. Under uncertainty, perception of outcome probabilities is an important factor for value-based decision-making and it is directly linked to the survival of species. However, evolutionary selection pressures shaping such behavioural traits received almost no empirical attention. Here, we demonstrate that fitness associated with differe...

Rule-based expert systems must deal with uncertain data, subjective expert opinions, and inaccurate decision rules. Computer scientists and psychologists have proposed and implemented a number of belief and new insights into theu Bayesian interpretations are presented In particular, the authors focus on three alternative belief-update models the certainty factors calculus, Dempster-Shafer simpl...

Emerging 3D printing technologies bring with it the potential to transform everyday consumers into manufacturers of every product imaginable. However, this impending wave of newfound technological capability is bound to crash against our present conventional system of laws and regulations. In this paper, the strengths and weaknesses of our current intellectual property framework are examined, a...