There is good evidence that pupil reactivity is useful for prognostication in acute head injuries. Despite this, most pupil assessments are subjective and are performed by physicians who may not be ...experts. They can therefore be unreliable. We present a case of a patient with seemingly irreversible demise from an acute traumatic subdural haematoma. This was determined by assessment of his pupils, which were non-reactive to light at the time of arrival to the neurosurgical theatre. He was transferred to the neurointensive care for brainstem death testing, where assessment by objective pupillometry determined that his pupils were in fact reactive. He made a good recovery following subsequent surgery to evacuate his subdural haematoma. We propose the widespread adoption of objective pupillometers in the assessment of acute head-injured patients and offer our case as an example of how an objective and accurate assessment can make a difference to patients' outcome.
This paper discusses four distinct functions of the Japanese particle mo, namely, (i) the universal quantificational use of mo with an indeterminate; (ii) mo within a negative polarity item ...containing an indeterminate; (iii) mo within a negative polarity item functioning as a minimizer; and (iv) additive mo. Starting with Shimoyama (2001, 2006) and a significantly modified adaptation of Kobuchi-Philip`s (2008a) analysis of universal quantifcational mo, this paper proposes a unified semantic analysis of all four uses of mo. It is argued that X-mo is syntactically an adjunct, and that its semantics involves (i) a condition of membership in the denotation of the DP construed with the mo-phrase (the Condition of Inclusion in Moltmann 1995), (ii) a condition of membership in the predicate denotation, and (iii) a condition requiring the existence of an additional element with the same properties as the referent of what mo syntactically combines with.
In this paper, we consider a nonparametric adaptive software rejuvenation schedule under a random censored data. For u failure time data and v random censored data, we formulate upper and lower ...bounds of the predictive system availability based on a nonparametric predictive inference (NPI). Then, we derive adaptive rejuvenation policies which maximizes the upper or lower bound. In simulation experiments, we show that estimates of the software rejuvenation schedule are updated by acquisition of new failure data, and converge to the theoretical optimal solution.
The research of EPON equipment has become the hotspot, with the advancement of the three-network fusion. The design of ONU is based on Spartan-6, which is a new generation of low-cost XILINX FPGA and ...is introduced in the paper. FEC encoding process is improved. And the implementation of memory management module of switch module is introduced in detail. The switching function is implemented on FPGA. It will simplify the design of PCB and reduce cost.
This paper is concerned with the syntax of negative sentences and negative polarity items (NPIs) in English and Japanese and argues for the validity of a feature-checking analysis in the framework of ...Chomsky (1995). It is demonstrated that the feature-checking analysis based on feature specification on Neg and NPIs can present a unified view of negative sentences and that different distributions of NPIs naturally follow from it. At the same time, it is argued that negative sentences suggest a locality condition supplementary to the Minimal Link Condition in Chomsky (1995), in support of Manzini (1998). This locality condition is incorporated into the analysis as the NEG-Convention.
Objective : This study was to investigate the utility and relation of dementia rating test(K-DRS and IADl, NPI-Q(symptom), NPI-Q(suffering), CCDR, SDS Method : For this study, we carried out dementia ...assessment examination of 34 patients with memory disturbance who have come to Cheongju oriental hospital of Daejeon university from April 2005 to February 2006. This study classified the patients as none-dementia(ND), questionable dementia(QD), and dementia(DA) groups and analyzed the result of examination. Results : 1. K-DRS and SDS, K-DRS and SDS, NPI-Q(symptom) and NPI-Q(suffering), NPI-Q(symptom) and CCDR showed clear correlations statistically each other.2. K-DRS scores showed the significant differences from that of ND and the other groups ; attention and conceptualization showed the significant differences between ND and DA, management and memorization showed the significant differences between DA and the other groups.3. IADL scores showed the significant differences from that of DA and the other groups, NPI-Q(symptom) scores showed the significant differences between QD and DA, NPI-Q(suffering) scores showed no differences among all groups.4. CCDR scores showed the significant differences from that of DA and the other groups, SDS scores showed the significant differences between ND and DA.5. MMSE-K and K-DRS showed strong correlations statistically each other. Conclusion : The study results suggest that dementia rating tests is useful to esteem the dementia and the dementia rating tests have strong corelations each other. We use the above mentioned tests for correct diagnosis.
The first purpose of this article is to analyze the data of patients who underwent the colectomy at the University Hospital of Ostrava in order to find the surgical technique that guarantees longer ...overall survival time. Nowadays there are used two basic surgical techniques for colectomy, either traditional (open) or minimally invasive (laparoscopic) and the patients are assigned to either of the surgical groups randomly. The second purpose is to present the use of nonparametric predictive inferential (NPI) method for modelling survival functions and comparison of groups of survival data containing censored data in the form of observed event times and right-censored data. The surgical techniques were compared separately for patients with resection of colon and for patients with resection of rectum. Results of the decision making process obtained by the NPI approach were confronted with the results obtained by the standard nonparametric approach represented by the log-rank test. Both approaches led to the same conclusion that the minimally invasive technique guarantees significantly longer survival time in comparison with the classical technique for patients who underwent resection of colon and that there is no statistically significant difference between survival times of patients operated by different surgical techniques who underwent resection of rectum.
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