Diagnostic error is difficult to define, because diagnosis is both a process and the outcome of that process. Furthermore, it is difficult to judge when the process is complete – a physician may have a working diagnosis that seems to be the most likely reason for a given set of symptoms, but often only time will tell if that diagnosis was correct or not. Was his or her original diagnosis wrong,...

Introduction The International scoping study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super-beam Facility (ISS) was established at NuFact 05 to survey the possibilities available for a future complex for precision neutrino physics to succeed the super beam experiments (T2K in Japan and Noνa in the USA) currently under construction. The possibilities centre around developments of the superbeam concept w...

conclusions the incidence and severity of sore throat and hoarseness after tracheal intubation by glide scope were lower than in the macintosh laryngoscope. the incidence and severity of sore throat were increased by intubation and longer operation times. patients and methods three hundred patients were randomly allocated into two groups of 150: macintosh blade laryngoscope or glide scope video...

Axiomatizations are given for some prominent variants of the semantics of the statecharts formalism. The axiomatizations highlight the similarities and di erences amongst the semantics. In particular, all the semantics rely on the same notion of \microstep", but di erent notions of \step sequence". A process-algebraic approach is taken, and an executable variety of higher order logic is used, a...

We introduce a new method for computing the foot point of a given point on an implicitly defined curve and compare it with existing local and global methods. As demonstrated in this paper, the implicit representation of curves and surfaces is useful not only for solving intersection problems, but also for foot point computation. §