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Confusion, #1994 #Pan Macmillan, 1994 #Elizabeth Jane Howard #9780330339957 Oddity and the 'confusion effect'in predation, we report on two sets of experiments designed to clarify the roles of sensory 'confusion'and prey 'oddity'as they interact to influence the hunting success of a pursuit predator, the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), on silvery minnows (Hybognathus nuchalis. Delirium in mechanically ventilated patients: validity and reliability of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU, contextDelirium is a common problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). Accurate diagnosis is limited by the difficulty of communicating with mechanically ventilated patients and by lack of a validated delirium instrument for use in the ICU. ObjectivesTo validate a delirium. Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion? A Review of the World Bank's Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform, proponents and critics alike agree that the policies spawned by the Washington Consensus have not produced the desired results. The debate now is not over whether the Washington Consensus is dead or alive, but over what will replace it. An important marker in this. Confusion and controversy in the stress field, an attempt is made to further clarify present areas of controversy in the stress field, in response to a two-part article by Dr. John W. Mason which concludes in this issue of the Journal of Human Stress. The author tries to elucidate each source of confusion enumerated. Meta-analyses of financial performance and equity: fusion or confusion, agency theory dominates research on equity holdings-firm performance relationships; however, extant studies provide no consensus about the direction and magnitude of such relationships. Consistent linkages have not been demonstrated for firm performance. Stress, glucocorticoids, and damage to the nervous system: the current state of confusion, an extensive literature demonstrates that glucocorticoids (GCs), the adrenal steroids secreted during stress, can have a broad range of deleterious effects in the brain. The actions occur predominately, but not exclusively, in the hippocampus, a structure rich. Variety for sale: Mass customization or mass confusion, retailers who implement a high variety strategy need to ensure that customers are not confused with the complexity inherent in a wide assortment of options. Experimental evidence shows that when asking consumers to choose among items in a wide assortment. Clarifying confusion: the confusion assessment method: a new method for detection of delirium, objective: To develop and validate a new standardized confusion assessment method (CAM) that enables nonpsychiatric clinicians to detect delirium quickly in high-risk settings. Design: Prospective validation study. Setting: Conducted in general medicine wards. Finding consensus in speech recognition: word error minimization and other applications of confusion networks, we describe a new framework for distilling information from word lattices to improve the accuracy of the speech recognition output and obtain a more perspicuous representation of a set of alternative hypotheses. In the standard MAP decoding approach the recognizer. Cooperation in public-goods experiments: kindness or confusion, the persistence of cooperation in public-goods experiments has become an important puzzle for economists. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to separate the hypothesis that cooperation is due to kindness, altruism, or warm-glow from the hypothesis. Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU, objective: To develop and validate an instrument for use in the intensive care unit to accurately diagnose delirium in critically ill patients who are often nonverbal because of mechanical ventilation. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: The adult medical. Postoperative confusion after anesthesia in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures, fifty-seven patients, all over the age of 64, with femoral neck fracture were randomized to receive epidural or halothane anesthesia to see if the anesthetic technique influenced the incidence of postoperative confusion. All patients were lucid on admission. Using. Information, acoustic confusion and memory span, immediately after visual presentation, subjects were required to recall 6-letter sequences. Sequences were drawn from four vocabularies. There were two 3-letter vocabularies, distinguished by the probability of acoustic confusion within them, and two 9-letter. On a confusion about a function of consciousness, consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different consciousnesses. Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be in that state. The mark of access-consciousness. Cosmic confusion: degeneracies among cosmological parameters derived from measurements of microwave background anisotropies, in the near future, observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies will provide accurate determinations of many fundamental cosmological parameters. In this paper, we analyse degeneracies among cosmological parameters to illustrate some. The'Big Five'personality variables--construct confusion: Description versus prediction, personality researchers are converging on the Big Five personality constructs as a taxonomy for describing the basic dimensions of peasonality. If, however, ppre-diction rather than description is important, the Big Five may not be an adequate taxonomy. This article. Health literacy: a prescription to end confusion, to maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to them. This information is at the core of the partnerships that patients and their families forge with today’ s complex modern. On crises, contagion, and confusion, since the Tequila crisis of 1994-1995, the Asian flu of 1997, and the Russian virus of 1998, economists have been busy producing research on the subject of contagion. Yet, few studies have examined empirically through which channels the disturbances are transmitted. Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion, we present an inventory and analysis of discussions of ecological stability, considering 163 definitions of 70 different stability concepts. Our aim is to derive a strategy that can help to dispel the existing confusion of tongues on the subject of stability and prevent its future. Nipple confusion: toward a formal definition, the purposes of this article are to introduce a formal definition of nipple confusion and to propose various hypotheses concerning its cause. The term nipple confusion refers to an infant's difficulty in achieving the correct oral configuration, latching technique, and suckling.