Groote and Vaandrager introduced the tyft/tyxt format for Transition System Speci cations (TSSs), and established that for each TSS in this format that is well-founded, the bisimulation equivalence it induces is a congruence. In this paper, we construct for each TSS in tyft/tyxt format an equivalent TSS that consists of tree rules only. As a corollary we can give an a rmative answer to an open ...

REPORTRAPPORT The tyft/tyxt format reduces to tree rules Abstract. Groote and Vaandrager 5] introduced the tyft/tyxt format for transition system speciications (TSSs), and established that for each TSS in this format that is well-founded, the strong bisimulation it induces is a congruence. In this paper, we construct for each TSS in tyft/tyxt format an equivalent TSS that consists of tree rules...

This study examined the validity of the Nursing Child Assessment of Feeding Scale (NCAFS) during toddlerhood, using a longitudinal design to assess the scale's convergence with the Toddler Snack Scale (TSS) between 12 and 36 months, and comparing videotaped interactions of 116 mother-toddler dyads. Differences between TSS mutuality classifications were found for the NCAFS subscales at each age....

The annual incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in the developed world has been stable for at least 2 decades at 2.0–4.0 cases per 100,000 persons per year [1–3]. Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and necrotizing fasciitis are among the most severe manifestations of invasive group A streptococcal infection, with case-fatality rates of 30%-70% in adult patients with strepto...

We report 3 cases of recurrent nonmenstrual toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and review the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment. The primary sites of infection were the genital tract (in a patient who underwent cesarean delivery), the upper respiratory tract, and a breast abscess. In all 3 patients, the initial illness was not recognized to be TSS; only after development of recurrent il...

Water quality data at 12 sites within an urban, a suburban, and a rural stream were collected contemporaneously during four wet and eight dry periods. The urban stream yielded the highest biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), orthophosphate, total suspended sediment (TSS), and surfactant concentrations, while the most rural stream yielded the highest total organic carbon concentrations. Percent wate...

The Touch Sensing Software (TSS) solution transforms a standard Freescale microcontroller into a proximity capacitive touch sensor controller. In TSS 3.0 and higher versions, the touch sense library enables capacitive sensing not only for the entire Freescale S08, ColdFire V1 family and ARM®CortexTM-M4 Kinetis, but also ARM Cortex-M0+ Kinetis L family of microcontrollers. In the TSS 3.0.1 Libra...

Surface states--the electronic states emerging as a solid material terminates at a surface--are usually vulnerable to contaminations and defects. The robust topological surface state(s) (TSS) on the three-dimensional topological insulators provide a perfect platform for exploiting surface states in less stringent environments. Employing first-principles density functional theory calculations, w...

A new medium access prolocol called time slot switching (TSS) is proposed for use in optical fiber local area networks. This protocol incorporales features of time division, space division, and time compression for users to share a common medium. VLSI CMOS electrical crosspoints are used to switch traffic within individual time slots. Wilh these features, data, voice, and video services can all...

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) caused by the superantigen exotoxins of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes is characterized by robust T cell activation, profound elevation in systemic levels of multiple cytokines, including interferon-γ (IFN-γ), followed by multiple organ dysfunction and often death. As IFN-γ possesses pro- as well as anti-inflammatory properties, we delineated its rol...