We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavio...

The type of tactics in all (procedural) proof assistants is (a variant of) the one introduced in LCF. We discuss why this is inconvenient and we propose a new type for tactics that 1) allows the implementation of more clever tactics; 2) improves the implementation of declarative languages on top of procedural ones; 3) allows for better proof structuring; 4) improves proof automation; 5) allows ...

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D. N. Ansaari M. Pahlavaan Z. Abootaalebi To assess both the essence and ways of operationalization of a recently adopted policy by the MOE with the aim of making Iranian schools smart, four such schools were purposefully selected, observed, and questioned. The collected data have been analyzed using th...

(1) The 2007 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule that increased compensation for cognitive (Evaluation and Management) services at a rate exceeding increases for procedural services resulted in modest increases in rural primary care physician income in a prototypical practice. (2) A prototypical cognitive primary care practice realized a higher percentage increase in income, but a protot...

Derivatives arise frequently in graphics and GPGPU applications. 1 To meet this need we have added symbolic differentiation as a built 2 in language feature in the HLSL shading language. The symbolic 3 derivative is computed at compile time so it is available in all types 4 of shaders (geometry, pixel, vertex, etc.). The algorithm for com5 puting the symbolic derivative is simple and has reason...

This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines for object-early assignments are discussed: (1) emphasize message passing between instances of the same class; (2) use only simple loops that search for smallest or largest values in a sequence; (3) teach linked lists before collections and collections before arra...

Procedural textures have significant advantages over image textures. Procedural textures are compact, are resolution and size independent, often remove the need for a texture parameterization, can easily be parameterized and edited, and allow high quality antialiasing. However, creating procedural textures is more difficult than creating image textures. Creating procedural textures typically in...

Pre-procedural planning is the key element of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Multislice computed tomography of the chest, abdomen and pelvis with the ability to perform a 3-dimensional reconstruction has become the cornerstone of pre-procedural planning. We would like to encourage TAVI operators (interventional cardiologist and surgeons) to get involved in imaging. All TAVI ope...

When reasoning about knowledge of procedures under imperfect information, the explicit representation of epistemic possibilities blows up the S5-like models of standard epistemic logic. To overcome this drawback, in this paper, we propose a new logical framework based on compact models without epistemic accessibility relations for reasoning about knowledge of procedures. Inspired by the 3-value...