Staying Alive: Leadership in COVID-19 World

Staying Alive as Cheaply as Possible

This paper is concernedwith the derivation of infinite schedules for timed automata that are in some sense optimal. To cover a wide class of optimality criteria we start out by introducing an extension of the (priced) timed automata model that includes both costs and rewards as separate modelling features. A precise definition is then given of what constitutes optimal infinite behaviours for th...

Staying alive: defensive strategies in the BCL-2 family playbook.

Much debate surrounds how prosurvival members of the BCL-2 family repress opening of the BAX/BAK channel to block apoptosis; in this issue Llambi et al. (2011) identify two modes of apoptosis inhibition that exhibit surprisingly different behavior upon repeat proapoptotic challenges by BH3-only proteins.

Staying alive - Network coding for data persistence in volatile networks

In volatile network environments, node connectivity and availability changes rapidly. This poses a challenge to efficient repair of failed nodes in distributed storage with erasure-correcting code. The commonly considered bandwidthefficient data regenerating schemes either rely on availability of specific storage nodes in the network, or require a substantial number of repair nodes. We propose ...

Twelve Lessons on Hospital Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus pandemic has been announced by World Health Organization Director General on March 11th, 2020.Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was one the first referral hospitalsin the capital city of Tehran, I.R.Iran that entered the crisis and started a serious battle with the disease. Thehospital had to change many routine op...

A World of Changes: The Inheritance of COVID-19