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Optimizing Medical Care during a Nerve Agent Mass Casualty Incident Using Computer Simulation Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ruben De Rouck, Mehdi Benhassine, Michel Debacker, Filip Van Utterbeeck, Ives Hubloue
Introduction
Chemical mass casualty incidents (MCIs) pose a substantial threat to public health and safety, with the capacity to overwhelm healthcare infrastructure and create societal disorder. Computer simulation systems are becoming an established mechanism to validate these plans due to their versatility, cost-effectiveness and lower susceptibility to ethical problems.

Methods
We created a computer simulation model of an ...

Epidemiology, etiology and prevention of injuries in competitive ice speed skating-limited current evidence, multiple future priorities Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Matthias Hendricks, Evert Verhagen, Alexander T M van de Water

Long-track and short-track ice speed skating are integral to the Winter Olympics. The state of evidence-based injury prevention in these sports is unclear. Our goals were to summarize the current scientific knowledge, to determine the state of research, and to highlight future research areas for injury prevention in ice speed skating. We conducted a scoping review, searching all injury and injury prevention studies in competitive ice speed ...

Manipulating prior beliefs causally induces under- and overconfidence Ghent University KU Leuven

Hélène Van Marcke, Pierre Le Denmat, Tom Verguts, Kobe Desender
Making a decision is invariably accompanied by a sense of confidence in that decision. Across subjects and tasks, there is widespread variability in the exact level of confidence, even for tasks that do not differ in objective difficulty. Such expressions of under- and overconfidence are of vital importance, as they relate to fundamental life outcomes. Yet, a computational account specifying the mechanisms underlying underand overconfidence is ...

Pathophysiological interactions between sarcopenia and type 2 diabetes University of Antwerp

Wouter Tack, Anne-Marie De Cock, Eveline Lia Dirinck, Sophie Bastijns, Femke Arien, Stany Perkisas
This review will try to elucidate the interconnected pathophysiology of sarcopenia and type 2 diabetes (T2D) and will try to identify a common pathway to explain their development. To this end, the PubMed and Scopus databases were searched for articles published about the underlying pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of both sarcopenia and T2D. The medical subject heading (MeSH) terms 'sarcopenia' AND 'diabetes mellitus' AND ...

Do bitcoin shocks truly Cointegrate with financial and commodity markets? Ghent University

Mustafa Özer, Michael Frömmel, Melik Kamişli, Darko B. Vukovic
This study examines the long-run relationships between Bitcoin and various financial and commodity markets. Utilizing a novel methodology termed the Implicit Asymmetric Combined Cointegration Test (IACC), an augmented variant of the Bayer Hanck combined cointegration method (BH), this research applies ten-minute frequency time series data to test asymmetric shocks associated with Bitcoin, stock markets, futures indices, sectoral stock indices, ...

Explanatory contextualism about episodic memory: towards a diagnosis of the causalist-simulationist debate University of Antwerp

Christopher Jude McCarroll, Kourken Michaelian, Bence Nanay
We argue that the causal theory of memory and the simulation theory of memory are not as straightforwardly incompatible as they are usually taken to be. Following a brief review of the theories, we describe alternative normative and descriptive perspectives on memory, arguing that the causal theory aligns better with the normative perspective and the simulation theory with the descriptive perspective. Taking explanatory contextualism about ...

Simulating Victim Health State Evolution from Physical and Chemical Injuries in Mass Casualty Incidents Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Mehdi Benhassine, Ruben De Rouck, Michel Debacker, Ives Hubloue, Erwin Dhondt, Filip Van Utterbeeck
The field of discrete-event simulation for medical disaster management is relatively new. In such simulations, human victims are generated using pre-determined transitions from one health state to the next, based on a set of triggers that correspond to treatment or the clinical progression of untreated injuries or diseases. However, this approach does not account for subtle differences in clinical progression. We propose a parameter-based model ...

On the Causality Problem in Focused Particle Transport KU Leuven

Nicolas Wijsen
When perpendicular diffusion is included into the focused transport equation, certain assumptions of the perpendicular diffusion coefficient (including the well-known fieldline random walk limit) clearly lead to faster-than-light motion for relativistic particles, and transport that does not preserve causality in general. In this work we show that this discrepancy can be solved by including the effect of turbulence on particle drifts, especially ...

The Challenge of Mass Casualty Incident Response Simulation Exercise Design and Creation Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Michelangelo Bortolin, Teri Lynn Herbert, Ives Hubloue, Sofie Pauwels, Rita V Burke, Mark X Cicero, Phoebe O Toups Dugas, Elizabeth O Oduwole

BACKGROUND: A Mass Casualty Incident response (MCI) full scale exercise (FSEx) assures MCI first responder (FR) competencies. Simulation and serious gaming platforms (Simulation) have been considered to achieve and maintain FR competencies. The translational science (TS) T0 question was asked: how can FRs achieve similar MCI competencies as a FSEx through the use of MCI simulation exercises?

METHODS: T1 stage (Scoping Review): ...