As a continuation of the OCL workshop during the MODELS 2013 conference in October 2013, a number of OCL experts decided to meet in November 2013 in Aachen for two days to discuss possible short term improvements of OCL for an upcoming OMG meeting and to envision possible future long-term developments of the language. This paper is a sort of “minutes of the meeting” and intended to quickly info...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

AIM To establish a model to predict long-term survival of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients after liver transplantation (MHCAT). METHODS Two hundred and twenty-three patients with HCC were followed for at least six years to identify independent risk factors for long-term survival after liver transplantation (LT). The criteria for HCC liver transplantation included the Milan, University ...

Before this Theo Murphy Meeting, my working hypothesis was that human activity during the measurement of G significantly affects the measurement itself. Noise caused by the gravity gradient of humans was indeed the reason why in one experiment the apparatus was raised 3 m above the floor. The meeting convinced me that all experimenters took adequate precautions against gravity gradients caused ...

restriction of option of meeting place to the sale contract is treated as incontrovertible in both shiite jurisprudence and iranian civil code in such a way that it is considered among necessities of shiite jurisprudence by some and a matter of consensus by others. however, malik and abu hanifa radically denied the prevailing opinion and shafi‘i had his own idea in this connection. since transa...

The production of resources supporting the needs of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) is labor-intensive. As a result, content production is focused upon meeting the needs of resources with higher demand, which limits the extent upon which long tail content requirement niches of AHS can be met. Open corpus slicing attempts to convert the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web, in...

Social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by heightened fear and avoidance of one or more social or performance situations, including public speaking, meeting new people, eating or writing in front of others and attending social meetings. People with social phobia are typically anxious about the possibility that others will evaluate them negatively and/or notice symptoms of their anxie...

Introduction The reviews in this issue of TINS represent a particularly interesting subset of formal presentations at a meeting held last year in Madrid, Spain. This meeting was sponsored by the Juan March Foundation, was organized by myself, Adam Sillito and Javier Cudeiro, and was entitled ‘The Neural Substrates of Cognition’. Further details of the meeting, including a list of speakers, can ...