With the failure of multiple recent acute stroke trials to show the benefit of endovascular treatment, there has been a lot written and spoken about next steps. In the wake of these results, many new trials have started with slightly varying principles, selection criteria, and depending on their sponsor, different devices. All these trials have tried to overcome the design limitations of the pr...

Roughly 36% of the world's rabies deaths occur in India each year, most of those when children come into contact with infected dogs. In collaboration with key partners, India's federal government is working with other countries to tackle the problem. Patralekha Chatterjee reports.

We study the first microlensing event toward the Carina spiral arm discovered by the OGLE collaboration. We demonstrate that this long duration event exhibits strong parallax signatures. Additional information from the parallax effect allows us to determine the lens transverse velocity projected onto the Sun-source line to be ∼ 145 km s. We also estimate the optical depth, event rate and durati...

This number of the EAI Transactions on Serious Games is dedicated to a set of ongoing research and development projects in this area. The selected articles represent very well the diversity of approaches, contexts and objectives that foster and render highly dynamic this area of study. In Europe, several funding programmes like the 7 th Framework Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme and t...

I review several ongoing connections between space physics and astrophysics: a) Measurements of energetic particle spectra have confirmed theoretical prediction of the highest energy to which shocks can accelerate particles, and this has direct bearing on the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays. b) Mass ejection in solar flares may help us understand photon ejection in the giant flares of ...

An agent that learns about the world while performing its jobs has to plan in a flexible and focused manner: it has to reflect on how to perform its jobs while accomplishing them, focus on critical aspects of important subtasks, and ignore irrelevant aspects of their context. It also has to postpone planning when lacking information, reconsider its course of action when noticing opportunities, ...

A major challenge facing the developers of intelligent decision-support systems is how to present pertinent information to physicians in such a way that it will be effective in influencing their behavior. The successful integration of medical decision-support systems into clinical environments has been a widely reported problem ever since such systems began to appear. While recognizing these sy...

he Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) closes the year 2012 with many achievements, a result of hard work of the Editorial Board, the Board of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery and reviewers, who always are fundamental to the scientific level of our journal is growing. An example is the number of citations, always growing, reflecting the Impact Factor (IF), which r...

Decoding of perceptual and mental states using multivariate analysis methods has received much recent attention. It relies on selective responses to experimental conditions in single trials, aggregated across voxels. In this study, we show that decoding is also possible when the state of interest changes continuously over time. It is shown that both orientation and rotation direction of a conti...