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Proceedings of the 4th Annual Thompson Rivers University Undergraduate Conference
No full textPeer reviewedProceedingsContent: Community Connections and Acceptance for Second Generation Chinese Canadians in Kamloops and Vancouver: The Example of the Wing Family / Anna Brace -- In the Company of Women: the Work We Do / Debra Andrews -- Driving "the 'Silent Majority' Wedge": American Political Polarization and the Conservative Backlash of the 1960s / Judith Zwickel -- Reconsidering Donne's Apprehension: the Unity of Human and Divine / Alice Dickinson -- Reinvestigation of Antimicrobial Activity in Previously Screened Cave Actinomycetes / Vanessa Montagliani -- Body and Soul: Donne as a Sacramental and Incarnational Writer / Andrea Faliszewski -- Investigating the Mg(pY)24Al Reaction at Astrophysically Relevant Energies with DRAGON / Scott Foubister -- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy / Scott Foubister and Samantha Lloyd -- Art as Social Change / Harmony Raine -- Skin Colour and Attractiveness: An Econometric Analysis / Brant Shapka and Richard Bregoliss -- A Comparison of Canadian and Chinese Student Motivations to Visit Japan / Yumiko Suzuki -- Medicated Blue / Beth Walker -- Sex-selective Abortions / Max Winkelman
Peer reviewedProceedingsContent: Community Connections and Acceptance for Second Generation Chinese Canadians in Kamloops and Vancouver: The Example of the Wing Family / Anna Brace -- In the Company of Women: the Work We Do / Debra Andrews -- Driving "the 'Silent Majority' Wedge": American Political Polarization and the Conservative Backlash of the 1960s / Judith Zwickel -- Reconsidering Donne's Apprehension: the Unity of Human and Divine / Alice Dickinson -- Reinvestigation of Antimicrobial Activity in Previously Screened Cave Actinomycetes / Vanessa Montagliani -- Body and Soul: Donne as a Sacramental and Incarnational Writer / Andrea Faliszewski -- Investigating the Mg(pY)24Al Reaction at Astrophysically Relevant Energies with DRAGON / Scott Foubister -- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy / Scott Foubister and Samantha Lloyd -- Art as Social Change / Harmony Raine -- Skin Colour and Attractiveness: An Econometric Analysis / Brant Shapka and Richard Bregoliss -- A Comparison of Canadian and Chinese Student Motivations to Visit Japan / Yumiko Suzuki -- Medicated Blue / Beth Walker -- Sex-selective Abortions / Max Winkelman
Enabling negotiating agents to explore very large outcome spaces
No full textThis work presents BIDS (Bidding using Diversified Search), an algorithm that can be used by negotiating agents to search very large outcome spaces. BIDS provides a balance between being rapid, accurate, diverse, and scalable search, allowing agents to search spaces with as many as 10^250 possible outcomes on very run-of-the-mill hardware. We show that our algorithm can be used to respond to the three most common search queries employed by 87% of all agents from the Automated Negotiating Agents Competition. Furthermore, we validate one of our techniques by integrating it into negotiation platform GeniusWeb, to enable existing state-of-the-art agents (and future agents) to scale their use to very large outcome spaces
Incidence of severe critical events in paediatric anaesthesia (APRICOT): a prospective multicentre observational study in 261 hospitals in Europe
No full textBackground Little is known about the incidence of severe critical events in children undergoing general anaesthesia in Europe. We aimed to identify the incidence, nature, and outcome of severe critical events in children undergoing anaesthesia, and the associated potential risk factors. Methods The APRICOT study was a prospective observational multicentre cohort study of children from birth to 15 years of age undergoing elective or urgent anaesthesia for diagnostic or surgical procedures. Children were eligible for inclusion during a 2-week period determined prospectively by each centre. There were 261 participating centres across 33 European countries. The primary endpoint was the occurence of perioperative severe critical events requiring immediate intervention. A severe critical event was defined as the occurrence of respiratory, cardiac, allergic, or neurological complications requiring immediate intervention and that led (or could have led) to major disability or death. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01878760. Findings Between April 1, 2014, and Jan 31, 2015, 31â127 anaesthetic procedures in 30â874 children with a mean age of 6·35 years (SD 4·50) were included. The incidence of perioperative severe critical events was 5·2% (95% CI 5·0â5·5) with an incidence of respiratory critical events of 3·1% (2·9â3·3). Cardiovascular instability occurred in 1·9% (1·7â2·1), with an immediate poor outcome in 5·4% (3·7â7·5) of these cases. The all-cause 30-day in-hospital mortality rate was 10 in 10â000. This was independent of type of anaesthesia. Age (relative risk 0·88, 95% CI 0·86â0·90; p<0·0001), medical history, and physical condition (1·60, 1·40â1·82; p<0·0001) were the major risk factors for a serious critical event. Multivariate analysis revealed evidence for the beneficial effect of years of experience of the most senior anaesthesia team member (0·99, 0·981â0·997; p<0·0048 for respiratory critical events, and 0·98, 0·97â0·99; p=0·0039 for cardiovascular critical events), rather than the type of health institution or providers. Interpretation This study highlights a relatively high rate of severe critical events during the anaesthesia management of children for surgical or diagnostic procedures in Europe, and a large variability in the practice of paediatric anaesthesia. These findings are substantial enough to warrant attention from national, regional, and specialist societies to target education of anaesthesiologists and their teams and implement strategies for quality improvement in paediatric anaesthesia. Funding European Society of Anaesthesiology
