This study analyzed patients’ perceptions of their nurses’ willingness to engage in interaction and patients’ satisfaction in communication about health with their nurses (N = 270). Results indicated that a strong and significant positive correlation exists between patients’ perceptions of their nurse’s interaction engagement and their satisfaction with their relationship with their nurse (r = ...

The classical definition of global hyperbolicity for a spacetime (M, g) comprises two conditions: (A) compactness of the diamonds J(p) ∩ J−(q), and (B) strong causality. Here we show that condition (B) can be replaced just by causality. In fact, we show first that the classical definition of causal simplicity (which impose to be distinguishing, apart from the closedness of J(p), J−(q)) can be w...

The multiplicity structure of a polynomial system at an isolated zero is identified with the dual space consisting of differential functionals vanishing on the entire polynomial ideal. Algorithms have been developed for computing dual spaces as the kernels of Macaulay matrices. These previous algorithms face a formidable obstacle in handling Macaulay matrices whose dimensions grow rapidly when ...

We survey various notions of probabilistic automata and probabilistic bisimulation, accumulating in an expressiveness hierarchy of probabilistic system types. The aim of this paper is twofold: On the one hand it provides an overview of existing types of probabilistic systems and, on the other hand, it explains the relationship between these models. We overview probabilistic systems with discret...

The notion of strict closedness rings was given by J. Lipman [Amer. Math. 93 (1971), pp. 649–685] in connection with a conjecture O. Zariski. present purpose is to give practical method construction strictly closed rings. It also shown that the Stanley-Reisner simplicial complexes (resp. $F$-pure satisfying condition $(\operatorname {S}_2)$ Serre) are weakly Arf)

The aim of the present paper is to provide a metalogical systematisation in the area of deontic action logic based on Boolean algebra. Differences among the systems in question lie in two aspects: the level of closedness of a deontic action logic and the possibility of performing no action at all. It is also shown that the existing definitions of obligation in those systems are not acceptable d...

Let H be the general, reduced Heisenberg group. Our main result establishes the inverse-closedness of a class of integral operators acting on Lp(H), given by the off-diagonal decay of the kernel. As a consequence of this result, we show that if α1I+Sf , where Sf is the operator given by convolution with f , f ∈ Lv(H), is invertible in B(Lp(H)), then (α1I + Sf )−1 = α2I + Sg, and g ∈ Lv(H). We p...

Semiuniform convergence spaces form a common generalization of lter spaces (including symmetric convergence spaces and thus symmetric topological spaces] as well as Cauchy spaces) and uniform limit spaces (including uniform spaces) with many convenient properties such as cartesian closedness, hereditariness and the fact that products of quotients are quotients. Here, for each semiuniform conver...