Mailing address: Ricardo Stein • Rua João Caetano 20/402 Petrópolis 90470-260 Porto Alegre, RS Brazil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Manuscript received June 5, 2010; revised manuscript received June 10, 2010; accepted September 14, 2010.

The main task in causal inference is the prediction of the outcome of an intervention. For example, a treatment assigned by a doctor that will change the patient’s heart condition is an intervention. Predicting the change in patient condition is a causal inference task. In general, an intervention is an action taken by an external agent that changes the original values, or the probability distr...

It is well known that severe children epilepsy requires numerous EEG studies to provide a di erential diagnostic when possible. In addition, sometimes it is necessary to order long term EEG. Typical cases of such severe affections (formerly called intractable) are Doose syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) which are especially difficult to deal with. In this document we propose to co...

The Ricardo Group is a 1,700-m-thick sequence of Miocene volcanic rocks and continental sedimentary rocks deposited between ~19 and 7 Ma in the El Paso basin, near the junction of the Garlock fault and the Sierra Nevada frontal fault in southern California. The combination of stratigraphic and structural data from the Ricardo Group with chronologic and rotational histories derived from magnetos...