Behavioral science and behavioral medicine have not been systematically taught to Japanese undergraduate medical students. A working group under the auspices of Japanese Society of Behavioral Medicine developed an outcome-oriented curriculum of behavioral science/behavioral medicine through three processes: identifying the curriculum contents, holding a joint symposium with related societies, a...

Finding, capturing and describing characteristic features represents a key aspect in disorder definition, diagnosis and management. This process is particularly challenging in the case of rare disorders, due to the sparse nature of data and expertise. From a computational perspective, finding characteristic features is associated with some additional major challenges, such as formulating a comp...

The ability to quantify the quality of cardiovascular care critically depends on the translation of recommendations for high-quality care into the measurement of that care. As payers and regulatory agencies increasingly seek to quantify healthcare quality, the implications of the measurement process on practicing physicians are likely to grow. This statement describes the methodology by which t...

The protein folding problem can be viewed as three different problems: defining the thermodynamic folding code; devising a good computational structure prediction algorithm; and answering Levinthal's question regarding the kinetic mechanism of how proteins can fold so quickly. Once regarded as a grand challenge, protein folding has seen much progress in recent years. Folding codes are now being...

We study the polyhedral convex hull of a mixed-integer set S defined by a collection of multilinear equations of the form yI = ∏ i∈I xi over the 0−1-cube. Such sets appear frequently in the factorable reformulation of mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems. In particular, the set S represents the feasible region of a linearized unconstrained zeroone polynomial optimization problem. We de...

goals prioritization, mental health and irrational beliefs are concept much discussed nowadays. this study aims to compare the goals prioritization of the students and its relation to mental health and irrational beliefs. this study was designed and completed descriptively. the sample included 216 students of allamehtabatabai university. students completed the goals and aspirations, mental heal...

Due to the importance that verbs have in language an identification of their actants (obligatory complements) is important for understanding of the meaning of sentences. Usually, the solution of this problem in natural language processing is based on machine learning approaches, which are trained on large sets of tagged texts. We show that it is possible to work with other kind of sources, i.e....

We describe a method for obtaining subject-dependent word sets relative to some (subjecO domain. Using the subject classifications given in the machine-readable version of Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English, we established subject-dependent cooccurrence links between words of the defining vocabulary to construct these "neighborhoods". Here, we describe the application of these neighbo...

One of the problems in converting a conventional (human-oriented) explanatory dictionary into a semantic database intended for the use in automatic reasoning systems is that such a database should not contain any cycles in its definitions, while the traditional dictionaries usually contain them. The cycles can be eliminated by declaring some words “primitive” (having no definition) while all ot...