Unfortunately, depression is now a well documented independent risk factor of coronary artery disease. Post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients with a clinician-diagnosed depressive disorder or self-reported depressive symptoms carry a 2.0to 2.5-fold increased relative risk of new cardiovascular events and cardiac mortality Questions about the pathophysiologic mechanism of depression in this se...

Emotion research has been divided by debate as to whether emotions are universal in form or cognitively constructed. We review an emerging approach that focuses on function rather than form. Functional affective science suggests that the particular origin of an emotion is relatively unimportant; instead, emotions can be understood in terms of a rapidly deployed set of mechanisms that structure ...

the desire and drive for excellence in any endeavor in life requires an effort from the individual; in addition it requires a constellation of features around such individuals that help them to become successful. for surgeons, it is the operating room staff, the administrative and medical assistants and our residents and fellows. however, perhaps the most important contribution to a physician’s...

This paper explores the design history of the nmake shell coprocess. Originally a special purpose uniprocessor executor, the coshell has evolved into a general purpose service that automatically executes shell actions on lightly loaded hosts in a local network. A major thrust of this work has been ease of use. The only privilege required for installation, administration or use is rsh access to ...

The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specify those processes. This paper presents a mechanism for group decision making that may be applied to the decisions that agents involved in a SharedPlan need to make: adopting the initial commitment, selecting a recipe, ...

The phenomenon of “software evolution” was observed back in the 1970s when the first large software systems were being developed, and it has attracted renewed attention in the 1990s. Yet, the difficulties of software evolution are still treated as problems that pop up unexpectedly in software projects. In this talk, I look at some possible reasons to explain this apparent contradiction and the ...