It is highly recommended to promptly assess depression in heart disease patients as it represents a crucial risk factor which may result in premature deaths following acute cardiac events and a more severe psychopathology, even in cases of subsequent nonfatal cardiac events. Patients and professionals often underestimate or misjudge depressive symptomatology as cardiac symptoms; hence, quick, r...

The Modelica specification is ambiguous as to whether all the events are synchronous are not. Different interpretations are possible leading to considerable differences in the ways models should be constructed and compilers developed. In this paper we examine this issue and show that there exists an interpretation that is more appropriate than others leading to more efficient compilers. It turn...