Editor's note: At this year's Catholic Health Assembly in San Diego, two highly regarded professionals who are deeply committed to fostering holistic approaches to health and health care are scheduled to take the stage. Rose Shandrow, system director of Spiritual Care Services at Franciscan Health System in Tacoma, Wash., is being honored by CHA this year with a mid-career award for outstanding...

BACKGROUND Qualitative evidence suggests patient-reported outcome (PRO) information is frequently absent from clinical trial protocols, potentially leading to inconsistent PRO data collection and risking bias. Direct evidence regarding PRO trial protocol content is lacking. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate the PRO-specific content of UK National Institute for Health Research...

We estimate the maximal length of interactions between strategies in HO/N game semantics, in the spirit of the work by Schwichtenberg and Beckmann for the length of reduction in simply typed λ-calculus. Because of the operational content of game semantics, the bounds presented here also apply to head linear reduction on λ-terms and to the execution of programs by abstract machines (PAM/KAM), in...

A data warehouse is an integrated database primarily used in organizational decision making. Although the deployment of data warehouses is current practice in modern information technology landscapes, the methodical schema design for such databases has only been studied cursorily. In this paper we pursue schema design for data warehouses in the spirit of classical database design, organized as ...

The programming language Pascal waH originally designed for tcaching introductory programming, currently, however, production systems use it as the primary implementation language. This paper describes extensions of Pascal intended to aid the large program developer. The extensions are implemented in a macro preprocessor MAP, which supports constant expression evaluation, source file inclusion,...

Abstract Nominalists need some account of correctness for sentences committed to the existence abstract objects. This paper proposes a new statement such conditions specifically properties. The builds on an earlier proposal mine, but avoids counter-examples against latter pointed out by Thomas Schindler, particularly, sentence ‘There are inexpressible properties’. I argue that is independently ...

Jingxian Hao 1,2, Zhuoping Yu 1, Zhiguo Zhao 1,*, Peihong Shen 1 and Xiaowen Zhan 1 1 School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China; [email protected] (J.H.); [email protected] (Z.Y.); [email protected] (P.S.); [email protected] (X.Z.) 2 SAIC Motor Commercial Vehicle Technical Center, Shanghai 200438, China * Correspondence: zhiguozhao@tongji....

Yu Zou, Paul M. Torrens, Roger G. Ghanem and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and PACM, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA (Received ...

In the spirit of BLAST systems, this paper proposes a novel layered space-time (ST) coding scheme. By slicing the two-dimensional ST code into a stack of one-dimensional so-called layer codes, ST coding and decoding are performed in a layer by layer fashion. Because d$erent layers are transmitted independently, the proposed scheme is capable of supporting considerably higher transmission rates ...