In this paper we present a new process calculus VPCΣ and an interpretation for core Erlang. VPCΣ is at least as expressive as VPC and it is more effective for verification with some built-in functions. The wellestablished symbolic bisimulation in value-passing calculus is now helpful for solving the infinite-state space problem of data values in equivalence checking and verfication. Compared to...

Since 1995, the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine has monitored students' professional behaviors in their third and fourth years. The authors recognized that several students with professionalism deficiencies during their clerkships had manifested problematic behaviors earlier in medical school. They also observed behaviors of concern--such as inappropriate behavior in...

The rise of health and wellness coaching holds significant promise for facilitating sustainable behavior change to help legions of individuals prevent and manage chronic disease. We all know the threats associated with the staggering epidemic of chronic disease and associated unhealthy lifestyles. But did we get here through a failure of personal responsibility? A failure of family units to sup...

The difficulties of verifying concurrent programs lie in their inherent non-determinism and interferences. Rely-Guarantee reasoning is one useful approach to solve this problem for its capability in formally specifying interthread interferences. However, modern verification requires better locality and modularity. It is still a great challenge to verify a message-passing program in a modular an...

This paper proposes a graph-based solution to the problem of parameter passing in distributed object-oriented applications. The solution presented here makes use of graph directives for the purpose of optimizing the copying of objects which are passed as parameters in remote invocations. These speciications are done using a very simple graph traversal language { GOOP. The resulting parameter pa...

PURPOSE To review systematically the impact of clinicians' personality and observed interpersonal behaviors on the quality of their patient care. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO from inception through January 2014, using both free text words and subject headings, without language restriction. Additional hand-searching was performed. STUDY SELECTION The PRISMA framework...

The interactions between HCl and NH3 molecules adsorbed on amorphous solid water (ASW) have been investigated by temperature-programmed time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TP-TOF-SIMS). The NH4 þ ion is sputtered predominantly from codeposited HCl and NH3 molecules on ASW due to collision-induced proton transfer reactions. The NH4 þ yield is enhanced above 60 K as a consequence of t...

As an important research issue in affective computing community, multi-modal emotion recognition has become a hot topic the last few years. However, almost all existing studies perform multiple binary classification for each with focus on complete time series data. In this paper, we multi-label scenario. scenario, consider not only label-to-label dependency, but also feature-to-label and modali...

There is a wide variety of message-passing communication models, ranging from synchronous "rendez-vous" communications to fully asynchronous/out-of-order communications. For large-scale distributed systems, the model determined by transport layer network, and few classes orders message delivery (FIFO, causally ordered) have been identified in early days computing. local-scale applications, e.g....

Vulnerability analysis of transportation networks has rapidly become important in recent decades given the increasing numbers disasters. In this paper, we describe a method for calculating minimum cuts between all pairs nodes network and develop two indices analyzing vulnerability; these are derived from topology-based vulnerability/demand-accountable analyses enable evaluation without assuming...