Abstract: A nonparametric test for trends in the occurrence of rare events, based on the average position that the events occupy in the series, is presented. This test is formally identical to the Wilcoxon?Mann?Whitney test for the ...

Abstract: Abstract. Selective brain cooling (SBC) is achieved by cooling the carotid artery of rats with an extravascular thermoelectric concentrated cooling probe. The efficacy of this technique is established by directly measuring ...

Abstract: Thermal therapies have strong potential for improving outcomes for patients suffering from cardiac arrest, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or medically refractory intracranial hypertension. We propose a novel ...