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Barry Pless

Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University
Verified email at mcgill.ca
Cited by 13854

Line length: an efficient feature for seizure onset detection

…, J Echauz, T Tcheng, B Litt, B Pless - … Proceedings of the …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Patient e used zero records because before starting the manual tuning his training set worked
at the very first try with the set of parameters used in patient b’s parameters used as default…

BMJ bans “accidents”: Accidents are not unpredictable

RM Davis, B Pless - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
For many years safety officials and public health authorities have discouraged use of the
word “accident” when it refers to injuries or the events that produce them. An accident is often …

Improved low energy defibrillation efficacy in man with the use of a biphasic truncated exponential waveform

…, MA Ruder, V Gaudiani, WS Buch, B Pless… - American heart …, 1989 - Elsevier
The standard implantable defibrillator waveform is a truncated exponential of approximately
6 msec duration. This study compares the deflbrillation efficacy of a standard monophasic …

Clarifying the concept of critical thinking in nursing

BS Pless, GM Clayton - Journal of Nursing Education, 1993 - journals.healio.com
Various authors have put forth definitions relative to their specific discipline, ie, philosophy,
education, or psychology. One of the earlier definitions put forth was that of Watson and …

Public bicycle share programs and head injuries

JM Graves, B Pless, L Moore… - … journal of public …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We evaluated the effect of North American public bicycle share programs (PBSPs),
which typically do not offer helmets with rentals, on the occurrence of bicycle-related head …

Transcriptional properties of human NANOG1 and NANOG2 in acute leukemic cells

I Eberle, B Pless, M Braun, T Dingermann… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… By using the exon-specific primer sets a and b, PCR amplimers were obtained for all
investigated cell lines (Figure 1B, panels a and b). The forward primer of set c binds to exclusively …

Revision, replication and neglect—research on maladjustment in chronic illness

IB Pless, T Nolan - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… , 1976; Breslau & Marshall, 1985; Breslau, 1985), and some evidence that children with
sensory impairments may also be at increased risk (Pless & Satterwhite, 1975a; Pless, 1984a,b). …

[HTML][HTML] Risk compensation: Revisited and rebutted

B Pless - Safety, 2016 - mdpi.com
This Commentary addresses the ongoing disagreements between many safety advocates
who endorse traditional models of prevention and those who oppose them, arguing that safety …

For and againstDoes risk homoeostasis theory have implications for road safetyForAgainst

GJS Wilde, LS Robertson, IB Pless - Bmj, 2002 - bmj.com
… A driver compares the perceived risk of current action (box b) with the target level of risk (box
a). When there is a discrepancy the person wishes to reduce it (box c) and takes some …

[BOOK][B] Child health and the community

RJ Haggerty, KJ Roghmann, IB Pless - 1975 - books.google.com
This update of a 1975 case study of the service and research program of the University of
Rochester's department of pediatrics picks up 20 years later, examining demographic, …