331 research outputs found
The treatment of spontaneous coronary dissection extending to the Valsalva sinus during percutaneous coronary intervention with primary stenting
Aortocoronary dissections are among the rare complications of percutaneous coronary interventions. Occasionally,
coronary dissections can be the triggering factor for aortocoronary dissection. In this case, the dissection
in the coronary artery may extend to the Valsalva sinus and ascending aorta progressively. In this article,
we present and discuss a 54-year-old male who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention for acute
inferior myocardial infarction. The aetiology for right coronary artery occlusion appeared to be spontaneous
coronary dissection which extended to the Valsalva sinus. After treatment with primary stenting, the 6-month
follow up results are presented here.Aortocoronary dissections are among the rare complications of percutaneous coronary interventions. Occasionally,
coronary dissections can be the triggering factor for aortocoronary dissection. In this case, the dissection
in the coronary artery may extend to the Valsalva sinus and ascending aorta progressively. In this article,
we present and discuss a 54-year-old male who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention for acute
inferior myocardial infarction. The aetiology for right coronary artery occlusion appeared to be spontaneous
coronary dissection which extended to the Valsalva sinus. After treatment with primary stenting, the 6-month
follow up results are presented here
Ragged Men on the Move: Poverty, Inertia and Friendship in Latife Tekinâs Swords of Ice (1989/tr.2007)
Latife Tekinâs Swords of Ice (1989/tr.2007) depicts the lives of Halilhan and his best friend Gogi, âragged menâ from Istanbulâs âouter most beltâ (18). Smart, spiritual, and naĂŻve, Gogi tries to help Halilhan, although Halilhan tricks his brothers and misuses company funds to buy a second-hand red Volvo. While the Volvo is the techne for upward mobility, power and status, Halilhan recognizes that his well-tuned friendship with Gogi is vital to escape the poverty that their neighborhood imposes. This paper analyzes the friendship between Gogi and Halilhan, as they mark a fragile transgression of territorial boundaries, class norms, and socio-political values.
 
Crisis innovation:A study of Michelin-starred restaurants' strategic renewal and alignment
Purpose: Using the lens of crisis innovation and strategic alignment, this study explores how a segment of the restaurant sector that may be less agile than others â Michelin-starred restaurants â perceives and aligns with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19-pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: The study collected data from 19 Michelin-starred restaurants in Spain using a qualitative interview method. The data were analyzed qualitatively and organized thematically. Findings: Four key categories of strategic challenges were identified: human resources, uncertainty, control and economic challenges. In response, chefs displayed both behavioral and organizational strategies. Those organizational strategies were new human resource management, reorganization, product and service innovation and marketing. While the new human resource management actions adopted to align with the human resource challenges identified, a misalignment remains between some of the other strategic actions, such as product and service innovation, marketing and economic and uncertainty challenges. Originality/value The findings offer new insight into Michelin-starred restaurant chefs' challenges and (mis)alignment strategies, an area that has been understudied in the current literature on innovative responses in the hospitality sector post-pandemic
The Effect of History Teaching Supported by Dramatization Technique on Studentsâ Achievement and Permanence Level
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of history teaching supported by dramatization technique on studentsâ success and permanence in history education in comparison with the traditional teaching. In this research, the semi experimental method which was practiced by pre-test, post-test and permanence test were used and it was studied on two different student groups. One of them is control group tested with lecture method and the other one is experimental group tested by dramatization technique. Tested group consists of 63 students who studying in classes 10-A and 10-B of a vocational high school of Kırıkkale. This study is limited with units of âFrom Principality to Stateâ in 10th grade students. During this experiment containing retention test were applied to experimental and control groups and the results were analyzed by the program SPSS 16.0. According to the findings obtained, in history lesson: there is a significant difference between the points of success and permanence of the group which is tested by dramatization technique and the group which is tested by teacher centered teaching. In other words, the dramatization technique, which actively involved students in the learning environment, was found to be more effective in the educational success of students and permanence of the information they learned compared to the teacher centered approach on the transfer of historical information to the students
Analysis of a group purchasing organization under demand and price uncertainty
Based on an industrial case study, we present a stochastic model of a
supply chain consisting of a set of buyers and suppliers and a group purchasing
organization (GPO). The GPO combines orders from buyers in a two-period model.
Demand and price in the second period are random. An advance selling opportunity
is available to all suppliers and buyers in the first-period market. Buyers decide how
much to buy through the GPO in the first period and how much to procure from the
market at a lower or higher price in the second period. Suppliers determine the
amount of capacity to sell through the GPO in the first period and to hold in reserve
in order to meet demand in the second period. The GPO conducts a uniform-price
reverse auction to select suppliers and decides on the price that will be offered to
buyers to maximize its profit. By determining the optimal decisions of buyers,
suppliers, and the GPO, we answer the following questions: Do suppliers and buyers
benefit from working with a GPO? How do the uncertainty in demand, the share of
GPO orders in the advance sales market, and the uncertainty in price influence the
playersâ decisions and profits? What are the characteristics of an environment that
would encourage suppliers and buyers to work with a GPO? We show that a GPO
helps buyers and suppliers to mitigate demand and price risks effectively while
collecting a premium by serving as an intermediary between them
Optimal Deceptive and Reference Policies for Supervisory Control
The use of deceptive strategies is important for an agent that attempts not
to reveal his intentions in an adversarial environment. We consider a setting
in which a supervisor provides a reference policy and expects an agent to
follow the reference policy and perform a task. The agent may instead follow a
different, deceptive policy to achieve a different task. We model the
environment and the behavior of the agent with a Markov decision process,
represent the tasks of the agent and the supervisor with linear temporal logic
formulae, and study the synthesis of optimal deceptive policies for such
agents. We also study the synthesis of optimal reference policies that prevents
deceptive strategies of the agent and achieves the supervisor's task with high
probability. We show that the synthesis of deceptive policies has a convex
optimization problem formulation, while the synthesis of reference policies
requires solving a nonconvex optimization problem.Comment: 20 page
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Decomposable Saddle-Point Problems
Saddle-point problems appear in various settings including machine learning,
zero-sum stochastic games, and regression problems. We consider decomposable
saddle-point problems and study an extension of the alternating direction
method of multipliers to such saddle-point problems. Instead of solving the
original saddle-point problem directly, this algorithm solves smaller
saddle-point problems by exploiting the decomposable structure. We show the
convergence of this algorithm for convex-concave saddle-point problems under a
mild assumption. We also provide a sufficient condition for which the
assumption holds. We demonstrate the convergence properties of the saddle-point
alternating direction method of multipliers with numerical examples on a power
allocation problem in communication channels and a network routing problem with
adversarial costs.Comment: Accepted to 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control, and Computin
Smooth Convex Optimization using Sub-Zeroth-Order Oracles
We consider the problem of minimizing a smooth, Lipschitz, convex function
over a compact, convex set using sub-zeroth-order oracles: an oracle that
outputs the sign of the directional derivative for a given point and a given
direction, an oracle that compares the function values for a given pair of
points, and an oracle that outputs a noisy function value for a given point. We
show that the sample complexity of optimization using these oracles is
polynomial in the relevant parameters. The optimization algorithm that we
provide for the comparator oracle is the first algorithm with a known rate of
convergence that is polynomial in the number of dimensions. We also give an
algorithm for the noisy-value oracle that incurs a regret of
(ignoring the other factors and
logarithmic dependencies) where is the number of dimensions and is the
number of queries.Comment: Extended version of the accepted paper in the 35th AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence 2021. 19 pages including supplementary materia
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