Acting on Adherence: Better Sooner than Later

Sooner is Safer Than Later

It has been observed repeatedly that the standard safety-liveness classi cation for properties of reactive systems does not t for real-time properties. This is because the implicit \liveness" of time shifts the spectrum towards the safety side. While, for example, response | that \something good" will happen eventually | is a classical liveness property, bounded response | that \something good"...

Medical education on a collision course: sooner rather than later?

BACKGROUND The escalating cost of medical education does not have transparency. This results in high percentages of medical students with progressively rising levels of indebtedness that are only exceeded by the increases in tuition. Indebtedness is a factor in specialty choice along with the "business" of medicine that reimburses procedural-based physicians much more than cognitive primary car...

Unification: Sooner or Later

or the better part of my career I’ve traveled the world speaking to companies about security; their challenges, strengths, and weaknesses, the regulatory landscape, and technical infrastructures. Ultimately, while the languages may differ as much as the landscape, the security troubles and goals are extraordinarily similar, seemingly unaffected by the diversity in industry and law. But, given t...

Medical audit--better later than never.

Alcoholic marriage: later start, sooner end.

BACKGROUND Although associations between drinking behavior and marital status are well documented, timing of marital transitions as a function of alcohol use or disorder has received limited empirical attention. METHODS We examine the relationship between lifetime history of alcohol dependence (AD) and timing and survival of first marriages in a sample of 3,575 female and 1,845 male adult Aus...