minders remains a major challenge to individualized feedback strategies. More intensive efforts, beyond poster campaigns, may be necessary to encourage patients to remind HCWs. Prior patient feedback strategies used one-on-one patient information sessions; however, inpatient turnover imposes continual resource demands on that approach. Clinical leaders are needed to openly invite their teams to...

Issues related to the plaintiff’s win rate in litigated cases have been discussed, and contested, for more than 30 years. In a seminal paper, Priest and Klein (1984) pointed out that it’s not an accident that some cases are litigated while others aren’t. Consider a simple litigation system that has essentially no procedural law. When disputes materialize, the parties may take them to court for ...

Zero-lag synchronization (ZLS) between chaotic units, which do not have self-feedback or a relay unit connecting them, is experimentally demonstrated for two mutually coupled chaotic semiconductor lasers. The mechanism is based on two mutual coupling delay times with certain allowed integer ratios, whereas for a single mutual delay time ZLS cannot be achieved. This mechanism is also found numer...

The Construction-Integration (CI) model represents sentence comprehension using nodes composed of propositions, words, and other information connected by links. These representations include multiple possible structures for a sentence. Successful simulation of sentence comprehension requires that inappropriate or irrelevant structures are not selected by the model. The standard CI model contain...

Vasohibin-1 (VASH1) is a VEGF-inducible gene of endothelial cells (ECs) that acts as a negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis. To further characterize the function of VASH1, we transfected human VASH1 gene into the mouse EC line MS1, established stable VASH1 expressing clones, and determined gene alteration by cDNA microarray analysis. Among the various angiogenesis-related genes, vascular...

We suggest that a process-like notion of strategy is relevant in the context of interactions in systems of self-interested agents. In this view, strategies are not plans formulated by rational agents considering all possible futures and (mutually recursively) taking into account strategies employed by other players. Instead, they are partial; players start with a set of potential strategies and...