OBJECTIVE Physicians' negative attitudes toward patients with obesity are well documented. Whether or how these beliefs may affect patient-physician communication is unknown. To describe the relationship between patient body mass index (BMI) and physician communication behaviors (biomedical, psychosocial/lifestyle, and rapport building) during typical outpatient primary care visits was aimed. ...

This paper proposes a new interpretation of the logical contents of programs in the context of concurrent interaction, wherein proofs correspond to valid executions of a processes. A type system based on linear logic is used, in which a given process has many different types, each typing corresponding to a particular way of interacting with its environment and cut elimination corresponds to exe...

One of the absolute greats of primatology, Toshisada Nishida (March 3, 1941– June 7, 2011), recently passed away at the age of 70 (Figure 1). We have come such a long way in our knowledge of chimpanzees, and the discoveries have reached us in such a gradual and cumulative fashion, that it is easy to forget how little was known when Nishida set out for Africa to establish one of the first chimpa...

This paper addresses the question of how to incorporate constraint propagation into logic programming. A likely candidate is the CLP scheme, which allows one to exploit algorithmic opportunities while staying within logic programming semantics. CLP(R) is an example: it combines logic programming with the algorithms for solving linear equalities and inequalities. In this paper we describe two co...

Attention is focused in this paper on the approximation problem of system identii-cation with information theoretic criteria. For a class of problems it is shown that the criterion of mutual information rate is identical to the criterion of exponential-of-quadratic cost and to H 1 entropy. In addition the relation between the likelihood function and divergence is explored. As a consequence of t...

Communication is an important skill which doctors must possess in order to deal with patients and build a good rapport them. It not only increases communication understanding but also helps break bad news the patient more empathy. In this study we have taken four cases from our hospital where counselling plays role management. We such routine life lessons learnt play dealing similar ease future.

médée d’anouilh, resurgie des profondeurs de la mythologie, met en scène la mère passionnée et infanticide. atteinte de la démesure, médée sacrifie tout pour l’amour de jason. mais confrontée à la trahison, elle met une fin sanglante à sa passion débordée. médée d’anouilh se diffère de médée antique par ce fait qu’elle refuse de continuer à vivre dans le monde des médiocres, par-là elle préfère...