I am deeply grateful for the honor of addressing you as the President of your Association. At the same time, I feel more humble at this moment than ever before in the awareness of my own ignorance of cancer and of the gaps in knowledge that must be filled before the members of our profession will know adequately how to prevent and con trol the many diverse forms of neoplasia. Lest we become dis...

This paper is concerned with the performance analysis of a deadlock free protocol for limited capacity ring networks. There are ¡ nodes on the ring. Each node is connected with an emitter and a receiver of messages and is equiped with a buffer of capacity two for receiving and transmitting messages. The ring is of uni–direction so that every node has a communication predecessor and a successor....

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Cognitive Agent communication is a research field in full development. We propose here an extension and an implementation of the STROBE model, which regards the Agents as Scheme interpreters. These Agents are able to interpret messages in a dedicated environment including an interpreter that learns from the current conversation. These interpreters evolve dynamically, progressively with the conv...

The class of strong failure detectors (denoted S) includes all failure detectors that suspect all crashed processes and that do not suspect some (a priori unknown) process that never crashes. So, a failure detector that belongs to S is intrinsically unreliable as it can arbitrarily suspect correct processes. Several S-based consensus protocols have been designed. Some of them systematically req...

Nowadays the audience’s behaviors and reactions to health-related messages are of great importance. The present research aimed at studying the effect of health-related messages on the behaviors of social networks audiences according to attention, interest, desire, action model. The study used structural equation modeling to analyze the gathered data. The data were collected from the audiences o...

W examine how firms can create word-of-mouth peer influence and social contagion by designing viral features into their products and marketing campaigns. To econometrically identify the effectiveness of different viral features in creating social contagion, we designed and conducted a randomized field experiment involving the 1.4 million friends of 9,687 experimental users on Facebook.com. We f...

Twitter is a popular microblogging site where users can easily use mobile phones or desktop machines to generate short messages to be shared with others in realtime. Twitter has seen heavy usage in many recent international events including Japan earthquake, Iran election, etc. In such events, many tweets may become viral for different reasons. In this paper, we study the virality of socio-poli...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether provision of vaccine-health-literacy-promoting information in text message vaccine reminders improves receipt and timeliness of the second dose of influenza vaccine within a season for children in need of 2 doses. METHODS During the 2012-2013 season, families of eligible 6-month through 8-year-old children were recruited at the time of their first influenza vacc...