Syncope is a common presenting complaint for children and adults in the emergency department. An EKG is a part of the initial work-up for the syncope patient. Prolonged QT syndrome, an abnormal electrical conduction within the heart, can lead to syncope and sudden death from ventricular arrhythmia. Torsades de pointes is classically associated with prolonged QT syndrome, and is a life-threatening rhythm. This rhythm can be triggered by physical activity, emotional stress, swimming/diving reflex, startle reflex, and certain medications. Magnesium sulfate is the drug of choice for conversion of torsades de pointes, but unstable patients will require defibrillation.

Between World War II and independence, roughly 1945 to 1960, anticolonial activists successfully elucidated a link between the spread of Europhone education and freedom from colonial rule. This chapter frames African decolonization as also a Black Atlantic emancipation to reveal why educational aspirations were so central to mid twentieth-century anticolonial imaginings.

This chapter aims to educate the reader about providing nursing care for First Nations people so it promotes culturally safe social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB). The term ‘social and emotional wellbeing’ is used instead of the dominant health culture terminology ‘mental health’. We are not attempting to be controversial in doing so; rather, we are adopting a First Nations standpoint to help us understand and discuss mental health and mental illness in a relevant context for First Nations people. We also suggest that it is not a case of simply treating mental health as an alternative terminology; instead, it is necessary to understand social and emotional wellbeing as a phenomenon that is particular to First Nations people, and then to explore mental health from that perspective. The standpoint we use is important because, from a theoretical perspective, it helps us understand how we interpret the social and emotional health, and the mental health, of people generally.

This chapter further explores the necessary structural and conceptual contours for the development of a normative framework of rules addressing both (i) taking and (ii) presentation of evidence. In doing so, emphasis is placed on the absence of a universally recognized framework purporting to constitute a uniform set of international rules of evidence. Moreover, the hybrid nature of ICA, straddling the space between a private adjudicative dispute resolution system and one that necessarily must operate within a framework of a national arbitral law (lex arbitri), as well as a treaty-based enforcement regime that hardly is immune from idiosyncratic public policies of signatory States, is identified as a source of indeterminacy that clouds the necessary risk assessment conducive to settlement. In this same vein, evidentiary rules themselves are identified as partaking in a duality that also leads to indeterminacy.

This chapter examines the role of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker (ATSIHW) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner (ATSIHP), and discusses their relationships with nurses and midwives. It introduces the IHW and IHP roles because an understanding of them is important for nurses and midwives in order to optimise interprofessional practice with these practitioners. The chapter also discusses the application of nursing and midwifery professional standards to the interprofessional relationships between nurses, midwives, IHWs and IHPs.

This chapter analyzes the Prague Rules’ claim to maximizing process efficiency by limiting party-autonomy and emphasizing arbitrator discretion. In this context, it is asserted that the re-shifting of focus from the parties to the arbitral tribunal does not and cannot lead to optimal efficiency. Hence, notwithstanding the Prague Rules’ settlement provision, these rules fail to create an environment providing for the (i) identification, (ii) quantification, and (iii) communication of risk that would drive the parties to a voluntary settlement of the dispute, foreclosing a zero-sum result. The delay, lack of efficiency, and indeterminacy plaguing ICA simply are not cured by the Prague Rules’ shift of emphasis. Comprehensive evidential analysis and objective standards remain necessary predicates to settlement, irrespective of any enhancement of arbitrator discretion and corresponding diminution of party-autonomy.

The Conclusion first reiterates the three main arguments of the book. It then surveys changes and continuities in global education and development policies since the 1960s, while also touching on the present state of public education in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. It closes by reflecting on education’s double-edged nature as it relates to the problem of freedom: Does education emancipate, or oppress?

The philosophy of Jacques Derrida generally comes under heavy criticism from analytic philosophers. His work is sometimes judged to be purely exegetical, a comment on the history of philosophy, and insufficiently focused on relevant, pressing problems. It is accused of lacking clarity and rigour, especially presenting arguments that appear to contain contradic¬tions. These criticisms may be true some of the time but they are not true all of the time. There are certainly occasions where Derrida's philosophy does focus on a problem that analytic philosophers deem to be pressing and there are occasions where the apparent contradictions are a reason¬able attempt at expressing a particularly complex philosophical difficulty or conundrum. It would be inconsistent with a philosophical principle of charity for an analytic philosopher to assume that Derrida's work makes no contribution to academically rigorous philosophy. Indeed, it is possible to see in Politics of Friendship where Derrida draws philosophical conclusions about personal identity that bring his work into parallel with one of the most widely respected analytic philosophers on this topic, Derek Parfit. Notwithstanding the supposed gap between continental and analytical philosophy, both of these philosophers share a similar critical argument directed at the Cartesian conception of the subject or self. For Derrida, this argument is contained within the ‘Recoils’ chapter and, for Parfit, the argument is in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons, both arguing that the Cartesian conception is needlessly constraining, and both suggesting that an advance in philosophical thinking is possible. To this end, Parfit offers one of his most famous thought experiments, Fission, and Derrida concludes his chapter with his own thought-provoking reply to Descartes, claiming ‘I think, therefore I am the other’ (PF, 224). Derrida, alongside Parfit, succeeds in presenting reasons to consider personal identity beyond Cartesian limitations of singularity and indivisibility.

A survey of language variation (phonological, lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic) - includes regional, generational, and gender variation. Covers the difference between languages and language varieties, kinds of variation (regional, socioeconomic, gender, age, vocational), phonological variation, lexical varation, grammatical variation, and discourse and stylistic variation.

Distillation (Bucila et al., 2006; Hinton et al., 2015) is a technique for obtaining a small and computationally efficient model that performs the same function as a large and computationally intensive model. The original large model is referred to as the teacher model, and the resulting small model is called the student model. It is also common to employ an ensemble of multiple models as the teacher model.