Specification and verification in continuous problem domains are key topics for the practical application of formal methods and mechanized reasoning. I discuss one approach to linear continuous control systems and consider the challenges and opportunities raised for mechanized reasoning. These include practical implementation and integration issues, algorithms in computational real algebraic ge...

Specification and verification in continuous problem domains are key topics for the practical application of formal methods and mechanized reasoning. I discuss one approach to linear continuous control systems and consider the challenges and opportunities raised for mechanized reasoning. These include practical implementation and integration issues, algorithms in computational real algebraic ge...

Abstract The idea that ethics might be fruitfully understood in analogy with, or indeed as a form of, medicine has enjoyed long and distinguished history. A staple of ancient philosophical thinking, it also achieved wide expression the Islamic world. This essay explores role medical work eleventh-century Muslim intellectual Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī. Al-Ghazālī’s use this offers unique vantage point...

Oncology nurses play a pivotal role in the care of patients receiving chemotherapy and are in a prime position to facilitate better care of patients experiencing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). However, to do so, they must be kept well apprised of the most recent guidelines, the latest developments in CINV therapy, and the expanding knowledge of CINV pathophysiology. In April 2...

?ld to the intelligent nurse of the present, and for their still further improvement the new edition of Mental Nursing is specially adapted. The sections on Elementary Anatomy and Physiology and First Aid have been omitted, and replaced by others of more immediate value. The book now forms a sound guide for the treatment of the insane from the practical nursing Point of view, and as such it can...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the pattern of clinical pathway management upon the healthcare nursing for patients who were diagnosed with malignant tumors. Methods: A total of 186 intern nurses were recruited and randomly divided into the control (n=90) and clinical pathway groups (n=96). In the control group, all the intern nurses received traditional teaching management, and their coun...

Extension-based argumentation semantics have been shown to be a suitable approach for performing practical reasoning. Since extension-based argumentation semantics were formalized in terms of relationships between atomic arguments, it has been shown that extension-based argumentation semantics (such as the grounded semantics and stable semantics) can be characterized by logic programming semant...

, © Velleman This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. By “deciding how to decide”, I mean using practical reasoning to regulate one’s principles of practical reasoning. David Gauthier has sugg...

Each person holds numerous values that represent what is believed to be important. As a result, our values influence our behavior and play a role in practical reasoning. Various argumentation approaches use values to justify actions, but they assume a function that determines what values a state or action promotes and demotes. However, this is often open for debate, since values are abstract an...

This paper describes a system to support reasoning about lazy functional programs. We describe an approach based on combining a deep embedding of the language in HOL and a set of proof tools to raise the level of interaction with the theorem prover. This approach allows meta-theoretic reasoning about the semantics and reasoning about unde-ned programs while still supporting practical reasoning ...