Results Of the 561 jobs HEMS was deployed on in this time period, 226 (38%) were stand downs. All mechanisms of injury has a >25% stand down rate with assault jobs having the most (57%). 34% of stand downs were due to major injuries turning out to be minor although 20% of jobs did not have documented reasons. Interestingly, only 10% of stand downs were due to technical issues such as weather, r...

The present study examined the relationship between personality and individual differences in multi-tasking ability. Participants enrolled at the University of Utah completed measures of multi-tasking activity, perceived multi-tasking ability, impulsivity, and sensation seeking. In addition, they performed the Operation Span in order to assess their executive control and actual multi-tasking ab...

BACKGROUND Turning-while-walking is one of the commonest causes of falls in stroke survivors. It involves cognitive processing and may be challenging when performed concurrently with a cognitive task. Previous studies of dual-tasking involving turning-while-walking in stroke survivors show that the performance of physical tasks is compromised. However, the design of those studies did not addres...

The purpose of this study was to examine collaborative problem solving in a shared virtual space. The main question asked was: How will the performance and processes differ between collaborative problem solvers and independent problem solvers over time? A total of 104 university students (63 female and 41 male) participated in an experimental study. Participants were randomly assigned to four d...

The Ada language has been designed to support development of concurrent and distributed sojiware. While the Ada-83 standard defined the basic mechanisms of rendezvous-based tasking, the Ada-95 standard significantly extended this capability with the introduction of several advanced tasking constructs. We present and discuss formal models of these key tasking constructs using the Petri net model...

The Ada language has been designed to support development of concurrent and distributed software. While the Ada-83 standard de®ned the basic mechanisms of rendezvous-based tasking, the Ada-95 standard signi®cantly extended this capability with the introduction of several advanced tasking constructs. We present and discuss formal models of these key tasking constructs using the Petri net model. ...

laparoscopy or minimally-invasive surgery is a surgical technique in which the surgical operations are performed via a few small incisions. this kind of surgery has fewer complications over open surgery. finding methods for shortening the time of laparoscopic surgeries can improve operating room efficiency. an approach to shortening the time of laparoscopic surgeries is identifying the interrup...

To cite: Westbrook JI. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:877–879. When the media-savvy US psychiatrist Edward Hallowell first asked people to imagine how they would perform on a tennis court with two, three or even more balls in play, it seemed obvious that, no matter how talented or fit, everyone would be hard pressed to keep up, let alone execute any precision shots. Dr Hallowell’s book, CrazyBusy, went a...