The preface to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Future of Nursing (2011) report begins with a statement that the report is being published at a time of great opportunity in health care. As nurse educators, our great opportunity is the challenge to actualize the recommendations contained in the IOM report. Just as Robert Frost faced a divergence in the road, so too does our profession. Frost’s ...

Productivity has been one of the major concerns with the increasingly high cost of software development. Choosing the right development language with high productivity is one approach to reduce development costs. Working on the large database with 4106 projects ever developed, we found the factors significant to productivity. After the removal of the effects of other factors on productivity, we...

Approximately 42 million adolescents aged 10-19 years, representing 13% of the population, resided in the United States in 2014 (1). Adolescence is characterized by rapid and profound physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological changes (2), as well as development of healthy or risky behaviors that can last a lifetime. Parents have strong influence on their adolescent children's lives, ...

While physicians are generally understood as owing moral obligation to the health and well being of their individual patients, military health professionals can face ethical tensions between responsibilities to individual patients and responsibilities to the military mission. The conflicting obligations of the two roles held by the physician-soldier are often referred to as the problem of dual ...

We propose a variant of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) grounded in the agents’ operational know-how, as defined by their libraries of abstract plans. In our logic, it is possible to refer to “rational” strategies for agents developed under the Belief-Desire-Intention agent paradigm. This allows us to express and verify properties of BDI systems using ATL-type logical frameworks.

Over the past decade there have been a large number of significant innovations in manufacturing which have resulted in more flexible and cost efficient methods and higher quality products, as manufacturers have set about upgrading their processes, systems and performance. This study compares the use of technologies and improvement programs between OECD and Non-OECD countries, and also between s...

Although imatinib is an effective treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and nearly all patients treated with imatinib attain some form of remission, imatinib does not completely eliminate leukemia. Moreover, if the imatinib treatment is stopped, most patients eventually relapse (Cortes et al. in Clin. Cancer Res. 11:3425-3432, 2005). In Kim et al. (PLoS Comput. Biol. 4(6):e1000095, ...