In doctor-patient communication research a few mainstreams can be distinguished: a robust quantitative line of research, in which all patient and/or physician utterances are classified in a basically neutral coding system, usually consisting of a comprehensive set of mutually exclusive categories like RIAS (Roter, 1995) and VR-MICS (Del Piccolo et al., 1999; 2002), versus some more qualitative ...

We consider a class of nonsmooth optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold, in which objective function is weakly convex ambient Euclidean space. Such are ubiquitous engineering applications but still largely unexplored. present family Riemannian subgradient-type methods---namely subgradient, incremental and stochastic subgradient methods---to solve these show that they all have an iterat...

On promoting the type IIA side of the N = 1 Heterotic/type IIA dual pairs of [1] to M-theory on a 'barely G 2 Manifold' of [2], by spectrum-matching we show a possible triality between Heterotic on a self-mirror Calabi-Yau, M-theory on the above 'barely G 2-Manifold' constructed from the Calabi-Yau on the type IIA side and F-theory on an elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 4-fold fibered over a tri...